Category: Supply Chain

The role of a robust strategy has increased in today’s environment “Retail Apocalypse” continues to claim victims every few months. Whenever a retailer declares bankruptcy,

Art of modeling – choosing the abstraction level As you become more experienced analytics professional in your career, you extend your expertise beyond the science

Why Risk Pooling is important to understand for modelers From a Supply Chain Network Design perspective, risk pooling refers to facility consolidation, which leads to

What exactly is Deep Learning ? Deep learning is driving rapid innovations in artificial intelligence and influencing massive disruptions across all markets. This article provides

Caution…this is not the Sci-Fi version If you came here hoping to read about Algorithms that will take full control of your Supply Chain planning

The New kind of Black Friday rush In the WSJ article “Retailers adjust as online sales soar”, writer Sarah Nassauer so aptly highlights the environment

Supply Chain Disruptions The view, during and after a snowstorm when you are safely and warmly tucked inside your home, is beautiful…as shown in the

Finally went for it…!!! I had this itch for years to file for an individual patent for an idea. So last week I filed for

Lean had a drawback…… If you are well versed in Lean, and hence Toyota Production System, you are aware of the fact that unique Toyota

Moog’s Online Parts Marketplace- VeriPart Earlier this week, I came across a news article in WSJ that highlighted an excellent use case of applying Blockchain

The Generic AM Process Additive Manufacturing (AM) involves a number of steps that move from the virtual CAD description to the physical resultant part. Different

Ford F-150 has been the indisputable leader in the pickup trucks market and will remain so till electric trucks replace most of the Gasoline ones.

Introduction There should not be any doubt at this point that your organizations MUST undertake the journey towards building Industry 4.0 capabilities. But what will

Seeing beyond the hype wall One aspect of Blockchains that is discussed a lot is its ability to be used to define so called “Smart

Leverage a mature technology before exploring the hype Yes, new Digital tools and Technologies on the Horizon bring many promises. The hype for many of

Supply Chains may never become fully autonomous but…. Supply chains of the future will be increasingly driven by Algorithms. Key planning processes will be significantly

Do you get the Déjà vu – The failed RFID Promise ? I was discussing application of Blockchain in Supply Chains with a senior executive when

What Exactly is a Long Tail in Machine Learning ? Andriy Burkov, a thought leader in the field of Machine Learning, recently posted about Self

High Level Functionalities At the heart of the Go Store is the Computer Vision based Deep Learning that is used to seamlessly track and estimate

You probably already have heard about Adidas Speedfactory closures. You can read more about it here: Adidas getting rid of Speedfactories This is exactly why

While Blockchain has applications in the entire gamut of end to end Supply Chain, its impact on Inventory Management is the least discussed. I plan

Using Amazon’s apparel manufacturing patent for this example You may be familiar that in 2015, Amazon filed for a patent for an automated apparel manufacturing

Technical content – not a generic read. Data set used in the model can’t be shared due to confidentiality reasons. The assembly line pictures used

Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) simplified for Supply Chain executives ” The invention of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) applied to vision represents by far one of

Scenario Let us assume that we have a Fashion apparel company that manufactures 11 different SKUs using different production lines. Each production lines produces discrete