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Logistics Viewpoints
AUGUST 15, 2022
GEP and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Supply Chain Resource Cooperative surveyed supply chain, procurement and IT professionals across a range of industries to gain insight into their priorities and strategies regarding supply chain resilience and optimization. Alex Zhong, Director Product Marketing at GEP.
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 19, 2022
Malcolm McLean, a trucker from North Carolina, was tired of waiting. Operational innovations like the invention of containers led to the huge growth in global value chains, and today 95% of manufactured goods move on ships. But advances in this area have two limitations – the software itself and our ever-changing world.
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Logistics Viewpoints
AUGUST 5, 2021
PwC reports that almost half of assets under management are held by investment firms committed to decarbonization. Similarly, UPS has strong commitments to sustainability and invests in many options, such as alternative fuel vehicles, e-cycles in dense cities, and carbon offsets for purchase with shipping. Buffering creates waste.
Logistics Viewpoints
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Even if this retailer had used AI to forecast my purchase, AI that creates a perfect plan but fails to execute it only results in a highly-efficient silo, as Northeastern University professor Nada Sanders says. It’s not enough to make a model table for a website or a showroom. Planning was effective in this case, execution failed.
Supply Chain View from the Field
AUGUST 24, 2015
Center for Environmental Farming Systems (1) – Dairy Farming Project – Helping to create a transition plan to Austin Family Dairy Farm, a 75-Jersey cow conventional dairy farm located in Yancey County, North Carolina. You guessed it – ANALYTICS! What do all of these projects have in common?
Supply Chain View from the Field
DECEMBER 16, 2013
I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Not surprisingly, analytics is at the top of the list. This complexity is occurring in many forms.
NC State SCRC
JANUARY 18, 2018
Here is a sample of the type of projects our MBA and Engineering students are working on this semester, proving again that NC State is all about “THINK AND DO” (in our case, executing on practical applications in the real world using robust supply chain analytical approaches). MUFG Union Bank Strategic Performance Metrics.
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