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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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The Renewal Logistics Story with Courtney Folk

The Logistics of Logistics

drycleaning facility in Atlanta Georgia. These solutions shorten their clients’ order to cash cycle time, provide flexibility they need to proactively manage their inventory, and reduce chargebacks. They currently operate 3 locations in the southeast, and have a bench of 2500 workers.

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How To Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

Through work with Georgia Tech, the supply chain team can affect 70% of market capitalization in the food, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries. Focus on improving operating margin, inventory turns, and revenue/employee simultaneously. Seasonal Inventory Build or Asset Capacity to Ramp for a Seasonal Demand Usually.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 17 – 23)

Logistics Viewpoints

Target has a new way to speed packages to customers who live in the farther-out suburbs and neighborhoods of major cities, as it tries to give its e-commerce business a jolt. It opened the first one last month in Smyrna, Georgia, about 16 miles northwest of Atlanta, and may open them in other cities.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

s Wing subsidiary has developed a fleet of new drone prototypes designed to more efficiently deliver packages ranging from small pill bottles to items weighing as much as 7 pounds. percent year on year in June, driven by double-digit surges in New York/New Jersey, Houston, and Savannah, Georgia. Alphabet Inc.’s

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Last year, I attended a three-day conference in Las Vegas conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal with product returns, unsold inventories and other capitalist jetsam. Most online shoppers assume that items they return go back into regular inventory, to be sold again at full price. Zachary said.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

When FedEx, UPS, US Postal Service packages should be shipped for upcoming holiday season. We believe contractual pricing may increase in the mid- to high-single digits next year because of limited driver availability and the prospects for robust demand created by economic recovery and a prolonged inventory-replenishment cycle.”