Logistics Viewpoints
OCTOBER 19, 2023
As supply chains have grown in complexity and length, siloed thinking and processes are no longer able to meet this objective. 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.
Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
And the linked nature of supply chains mean that collaboration is necessary to ensure that a solution to a problem doesn’t meet the metrics for one link but negatively impact another. For example, it can be more effective to make a series of forecasts, accounting for a range of outcomes from aggressive to conservative.
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Logistics Viewpoints
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
The need to meet ever-higher customer expectations at ever-lower costs has lengthened our global supply chains, from multiplying far-flung suppliers to directly into consumers’ homes. Supply chains have seen the need to digitalize their operations to increase efficiencies to meet growing demands.
Kanban Logistics
JUNE 16, 2022
Preventing supply chain disruption begins with careful planning as soon as a major weather event is forecasted. At Kanban, we start with a meeting of our executive team, which implements plans for our employees and facilities in accordance with our Hurricane Preparedness Checklist. Before the storm.
Supply Chain View from the Field
APRIL 20, 2015
We are in the last stages of planning for our upcoming 31st Semi-Annual Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (SCRC) Meeting on Monday and Tuesday, April 27-28, 2015 at North Carolina State University. Bloomberg News has just released its rankings of forecast accuracy through the end of Q3 2014.
Enterra Insights
JULY 23, 2021
… Christmas in July started [88] years ago on July 24th and 25th in 1933 at a girls’ camp called Keystone Camp in Brevard, North Carolina.”[1] Postal Service couldn’t help meet the demand. An estimated 700 million packages didn’t arrive in time for Christmas. Michael Brown, a Partner in A.T. Footnotes. [1]
Resilinc
APRIL 26, 2022
While complex and expensive to create, it streamlines the traditional batch processing model and offers the promise of much greater flexibility in meeting changing demand—as well as much smaller footprints for manufacturing facilities. AI can predict or forecast supply chain-related events (e.g.,
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