Archive for 'Optimization' Category
Its alive, its alive, its alive… (to be read along with suitable music)
14 November 2006If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!SC Digest has an article by Dan Gilmore, editor, on Creating a “Living Supply Chain”, a concept put out by Dr. John Gattorna of the Sydney Business School (Australia) and Cranfield School of Management (UK).
So what is a living […]
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Learning to manage complexity
8 November 2006In an article titled Learning to manage complexity, Jonathan Byrnes writes about how growing companies succumb to complexity - their own complexity brought about by growth.
“Success often hurts, and even mortally wounds, well-run small businesses.”
In the article, Jonathan recounts a particularly compelling observation by Daryl Wyckoff,
Wyckoff described a rather strange profitability pattern of trucking companies. […]
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ASDN Logistics Analysis Software
2 November 2006While surfing the web for logistics related software, I came across the site hosted by the International Centre for Innovation and Industrial Logistics (ICIIL).
ICIIL has some information about an open source logistics analysis software that is being developed University of Vaasa, Finland and ABB Corporate Research Center.
ASDN - “Agile Supply Demand Networks” is software for […]
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The False God of the Almighty algorithm
12 July 2006Evolving Excellence has a great article (that gave me some pause when I read it) about the False God of the Almighty algorithm. The reason that I read the article at least twice and then all the following comments as well is because I do have a deep interest in algorithms as well as lean […]
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Archived webinar on Inventory Optimization in Electronics
29 June 2006An archived version of the recent webinar on Dynamic Inventory Optimization presented by the Electronics Supply Chain Association (ESCA) is available here. Registration is requied and free. The webinar will be available for a year from now. I found some of the items in the presentation especially from the Aberdeen Group as well as IBM’s […]
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