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This Week in Logistics News (February 4-8, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Schools are closed, the roads are empty, and we’re all just waiting for the blizzard to arrive. LLamasoft Introduces Supply Chain Sherpa Mobile Design and Visualization Modeling Tool. LLamasoft Introduces Supply Chain Sherpa Mobile Design and Visualization Modeling Tool. While we wait for the storm… C.H.

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Advanced analytics meets social good: how Angel Flight West optimizes flight routes for families in need

AIMMS

North Star Alliance , for instance, uses optimization to find optimal locations for its mobile HIV-AIDS clinics in Africa. Most recently, we encountered Angel Flight West , a non-profit organization that is using AIMMS to optimize flight routes for families in need. I don’t fly anymore, but I still help in any way I can.

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Will 2018 be the Start of the Robot Revolution?

Enterra Insights

Analysts at the Middle East North Africa Financial Network (MENAFN) report an old headline — one published at a time “when a computer took as much space as a large kitchen and had less power than a modern pocket calculator — stated, “Whatever your job is the chances are that one of these machines can do it faster or better than you can.”[4]

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Advanced analytics meets social good: how Angel Flight West optimizes flight routes for families in need

AIMMS

North Star Alliance , for instance, uses optimization to find optimal locations for its mobile HIV-AIDS clinics in Africa. Most recently, we encountered Angel Flight West , a non-profit organization that is using AIMMS to optimize flight routes for families in need. I don’t fly anymore, but I still help in any way I can.