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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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MODEX 2024: Supply Chain Lessons from the Frontlines

QAD

MODEX 2024, one of the largest supply chain trade shows in the USA, held at the sprawling Georgia World Congress Center, brought together supply chain professionals from around the world to explore the latest trends and innovations shaping the industry.

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Will the Circular Economy Ever Go Mainstream?

Enterra Insights

Georgia Wilson, a supply chain journalist, notes, “A circular economy is an economic model that encourages continuous reuse of materials to minimize waste, as well as driving demand for natural resource consumption.”[6] Sustainable packaging and product labelling is [also] a way to integrate the Circular Supply Chain concept.”

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Complex costs of transportation

Supply Chain Movement

To anticipate and respond to high customer demand, a modern Transportation Management System (TMS) needs to optimize inventory allocation. A TMS with inventory allocation enables shippers to monitor shipments down to the package level. Deviations that occur during transportation execution are not necessarily approved immediately.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- October 25 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Ryder Announces Acquisition of Contract Packaging Provider IFS Ryder System announced a definitive agreement to acquire Impact Fulfillment Systems (IFS), a contract packaging production and warehouse services provider primarily catering to consumer product goods and healthcare companies.

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7 Incredible Benefits of Cloud-Based Logistics Management

GlobalTranz

More findings on the cloud cargo transportation and warehouse management systems you may discover on the web. The cloud-based supply chain software can be customized to suit your industry, your transportation , freight-forwarding and warehousing specialty, import-export regulations. Helen works and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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LTL Carrier Profile: UPS Freight

The Logistics of Logistics

Domestic Package, International Package, and Supply Chain and Freight. UPS is well known for it’s small package delivery business. Now, UPS has aggressively grown into freight and other transportation solutions through a series of strategic acquisitions. had $54.1B in sales in 2012. operates in three segments: U.S.