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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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This Week in Logistics News (August 19 – 25)

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ABB has opened a new facility in Alpharetta, Georgia, to serve as the company’s dedicated center for robotic automation in the logistics and packaging industries. It came as large and small businesses were working on contingency plans in the event of a strike, which would have spiked shipping prices and scrambled supply chains.

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Package Theft Season is Here

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Package theft is on the rise as “porch pirates” continue to swipe packages from people’s doorsteps. The holiday season is the busiest time for package theft, as more and more items are delivered. For the 2023 holiday season alone, it is anticipated that between 850 million and 950 million packages will be delivered.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 17 – 23)

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The fulfillment center is the second of four next-generation facilities that aim to bring the powerful combination of people, technology and machine learning together to achieve faster shipping and delivery, while increasing Walmart.com order fulfillment capacity. population with its service. The shortage doesn’t just affect automakers.

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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. For Liam, his conventional forecasting process uses a ship-from model based on orders, with an FVA improvement of 1.29%. The goal is to maximize value through a balanced scorecard.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 6 – 12)

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When FedEx, UPS, US Postal Service packages should be shipped for upcoming holiday season. But for those looking for a jump start, FedEx, UPS, and the USPS have released their holiday shipping schedule. However, it does say that coast-to-coast shipping takes about a week, meaning it should be shipped no later than December 17.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 16 – 22)

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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 percent.