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How Can You Improve Value in Your Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

For example, if I improve the cost structure in transportation, procurement, manufacturing and sales independently, what decision support framework decides the right trade-offs? This brings me to the unveiling of the outcomes of the two-year project with Georgia Tech. Here is the video of the Georgia Tech conference on metrics.

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What Georgia-Pacific Is Doing With Causal AI Is Remarkable

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Mike Carroll, a vice president at Georgia-Pacific, and Ron Norris, director of innovation at GP While Generative AI has sparked great excitement, a form of artificial intelligence called Causal AI might offer much greater potential. Georgia-Pacific (GP) has demonstrated an application of Causal AI to dramatically improve touchless commerce.

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Supply Chain AI: 25 Current Use Cases (and a Handful of Future Ones)

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For example, if you want to train a vision system to recognize a dog’s image, you will start by using humans to look at tens of thousands of images of animals. Georgia-Pacific has demonstrated an application of Causal AI to improve touchless commerce dramatically. The humans label the pictures as dog, not dog, or unclear.

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Reflection: The Journey to be Market Driven

Supply Chain Shaman

Based on the modeling completed with help from the IYSE group at Georgia Tech, we found that while a focus on operating margin, revenue/employee and ROCE can drive 73% of market capitalization/employee, while a focus on cost of goods reduces value. Here I share three examples from very different industries. Why would I do this?

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Aligning Supply Chain Metrics to Improve Value

Supply Chain Shaman

For example, a cost improvement in one function could raise the costs in another. The data sourced from Y charts was charted by Regina Denman and shared with the statistics department at Georgia Tech. In the survey, companies had over one hundred active continuous improvement programs. Alignment of the programs was an issue.

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Manhattan Associates’ Strategic Vision – Unifying Platforms Integrating AI and Leading the Future

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Recent examples included the rollout of a new inventory planning application and the introduction of a hybrid AI-powered demand forecasting engine. Examples included dynamic trailer door assignments, shipment planning enhancements, drag-and-drop yard visualization tools, and integrated labor planning modules.

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Robots Take Center Stage at MODEX 2024

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MODEX 2024, held in Atlanta, Georgia, from March 11 to 14, attracted more than 35,000 attendees and featured over 150 educational sessions, keynote speakers, and networking events. Here are some of the examples that caught our attention. They can also work alongside humans or independently, depending on the task and the environment.