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Walmart Bests Whole Foods in Study of Food Supply's Human Toll

Material Handling & Logistics

“These are difficult issues for companies because they’re about who holds power, but the companies need to share power to keep their supply chains healthy,” said Irit Tamir, the director for the private-sector department of Boston-based Oxfam America, the U.S. arm of the U.K.-based based human-rights advocacy group. Facing Disruption.

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MIT Scalers win global final The Fresh Connection

Supply Chain Movement

The stakes were high because besides winning the title of Global Challenge Champion 2013 the prize for the winning team was a one week executive supply chain course at the prestigious institute MIT in Boston. Netherlands. Weighted ROI. United States of America. MIT Scalers. Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte. Fuji Xerox. ITC Agriculture.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- March 5 2022 Edition

Supply Chain Matters

Founded in 2014, this Boston based robotics technology firm leverages capabilities that are described as mimicking human hand-eye coordination, leveraging machine-learning to a vision system on a gripper and allowing mechanical fingers to bend and twist around objects to perform piece-picking tasks.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 16-20, 2016)

Talking Logistics

I’m at Heathrow airport waiting to board my flight back to Boston, which is delayed by over an hour so far. See the video below: Simply put, the technology for driverless/autonomous trucks continues to progress rapidly, but plenty of regulatory and legal hurdles remain.

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Towards Causal Artificial Intelligence

Enterra Insights

To highlight that point, Tyler Vigen , a Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), created a site called Spurious Correlations that highlights some interesting, if meaningless, correlations. Correlations can be interesting, even enlightening; however, scientists understand that correlation isn’t the same thing as causation.

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AIMMS in 2016: what’s in store for this year

AIMMS

We also grew as a team and have expanded to a new office in The Netherlands. We welcomed 2 new partners in 2016, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Booz Allen Hamilton. 2015 was a very exciting year for AIMMS. We welcomed many new customers, resulting in a 40% increase in revenue growth. Strengthening our partnerships.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

Ortiz was a larger-than-life figure in the Boston sports scene for 14 years, with more memorable moments than anyone other baseball player I can think of. And of course, there was his famous speech following the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, where he declared “this is our f—— city and nobody is going to dictate our freedom.”