Wednesday, July 17, 2024 · Matthias Schumm and Mehdi Tagorti
Analyzing various factors, including access to transportation and medical center density, enables decision-makers to make equitable decisions when it comes to distributing vaccines.
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 · Matthias Winkenbach
Although the regulatory framework is central to the industry’s future, it remains unclear. But, where there are problems there are also opportunities, especially in an industry that is developing innovative technologies and new operational and business models.
Wednesday, July 6, 2022 · Õzden Tozanli and Maria Jesus Saenz
Digital Twins (DT) could deliver benefits in supply chains if it were not for certain misconceptions that prevent companies from unlocking the technology’s huge potential.
Thursday, November 11, 2021 · Larry Lapide
SLC products—such as those in retail, fashion-oriented and high-tech industries. Try them, they work. Will they yield 100% accuracy? Of course not. Will they improve your forecast accuracy? I believe so.
Wednesday, September 1, 2021 · Jieming Feng and Mauricio Moreno
To offer a better customer experience with smarter, faster, and more sustainable logistics, companies must increase operational efficiency by addressing industry problems such as highly fragmented markets, low transparency, underutilized assets, costly manual processes, and,…
Monday, July 26, 2021 · Patrick Burnson
The Supply Chain Sustainability (SCS) report published by MIT and sponsored in part by KPMG is the second annual global survey of its kind, and it echoes many of the perceptions KPMG has analyzed, based on years of client interactions.
Wednesday, June 23, 2021 · Adriana Lembcke and Ornipha Vongasemjit
Nepal’s current average vaccine coverage hovers around 78%, and 59 out of 77 districts have not yet been fully immunized. Finding an efficient way to make vaccines more accessible by reviewing last-mile delivery is key to improving immunization coverage throughout the whole…
Friday, May 28, 2021 · Carlos Rafavy and Justin Casey
We believe both of our models, run jointly, will help solve the company's problem. The forecasting model will provide the company with an accurate prediction of their demand. The optimization model will reposition assets most efficiently by reducing transportation miles.
Thursday, February 4, 2021 · Christoph Herrmann and Libin Huang
AI adoption increases, but project success often lags. Over the past five years, artificial intelligence (AI) has grown from a buzzword to real-world business applications in supply chain management among the world’s largest companies, covering areas such as demand planning…
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 · Alexis Bateman
Companies’ efforts to tackle the problem through improved supply chain visibility and the introduction of audit programs are laudable and have deterred some bad actors. However, this scourge will not be rooted out until its perpetrators face stiff penalties that are enforced…
Monday, October 26, 2020 · SCMR Staff
Accenture and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are co-developing a supply chain resilience stress test for assessing operational and financial risks created by major market disruptions, disasters or other catastrophic events.
Friday, October 23, 2020 · David Sokoloff and Gaohui Zhang
Shippers regularly establish contracts with carriers to reduce their exposure to the volatility of the trucking market. However, the trucking industry is unique in the sense that contracts are often non-binding.
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 · Ni Pan and Jamie Sweeney
To retain high-value customers in the competitive consumer goods industry, businesses are incentivized to incur whatever costs necessary to meet demand. This behavior often results in inefficient production schedule changes, costly transportation, and inflated inventory levels…
Friday, June 12, 2020 · Chris Mejia Argueta, Alexis H. Bateman, & Ken Cottrill
The COVID-19 crisis is shining a light on the vulnerabilities of food supply chains, as well as opportunities to develop inventive ways to deliver fresh foods such as fruit and vegetables from farm to table.
Monday, May 11, 2020 · Bob Trebilcock
Kai Hoberg, a professor and head of the logistics department at Kühne Logistics University, noted the current COVID-19 shutdowns have the potential to trigger an even bigger decline in the global economy than the 2008 Financial Crisis.
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