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What Georgia-Pacific Is Doing With Causal AI Is Remarkable

Logistics Viewpoints

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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How To Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

With the evolution of eCommerce, shifts in regional preferences, complexities of product portfolios, decline in forecastability, and increase in demand and supply variability, supply chain planning is more challenging. Turn Volume Make to stock Very Forecastable. Long Tail Configure to Order or Make to Order Not forecastable.

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Outside-in Process Q&A

Supply Chain Shaman

Based on the work with Georgia Tech, we are getting clear on which metrics matter by industry. They implemented a simple planning technology with an outside-in channel-centric model (Ship to model definition). Model Comparisons Ship from model: A ship-to model: Another example of bi-directional orchestration is meat packing.

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What’s Next for The Freight Market with Chris Pickett

The Logistics of Logistics

in Logistics from MIT, and an MBA from Georgia Tech. About Flock Freight Founded in 2015, Flock Freight is a technology company reinventing the supply chain through smarter, more sustainable shipping solutions. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, an M.Eng.

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5 Top Takeaways from MODEX 2024

Locus Robotics

March 14, 2024 5 Top Takeaways from MODEX 2024 Mary Hart , Senior Content Marketing Manager The booths are down, the Georgia World Congress Center floors are quiet (until the next tradeshow), and the LocusBots are on their way home along with their human colleagues, but the energy and memories of MODEX 2024 remain high.

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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-Up

Supply Chain Matters

Rivian Automotive is now free to sell its EV parcel vans to other parcel carriers, and added reinforcement from multiple ocean container shipping carriers that the existing industry volume declines could extend for two to three years. based Alabama and Georgia production facilities. factory workers an 11 percent pay increase this year.

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Hurricane Irma: Updates and Impacts

Elementum

Current Storm Status: While Irma has weakened to a tropical storm , it’s still packing winds of up to 97 kph and now covers six states : Alabama, North and South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee. Atlanta, Georgia was placed under its first-ever tropical storm warning ahead of the Irma’s arrival.