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Supply Chain Basics with Jason Miller

The Logistics of Logistics

Jason is a professor of supply chain at Michigan State University, which is ranked as one of the top supply chain schools in the world. Withrow Endowed Emerging Scholar at Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business. About Michigan State University, Department of Supply Chain Management. Forecasting.

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The Green Corridor: Full Circle – The Promise and Struggles of the Circular Economy and Green Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

A study by the University of Michigan in 2018 showed how a patty of plant-based Beyond meat compared to a regular US beef patty of meat. Timing when stores need replenishment or when factory production will increase its demand, will likewise have better forecasting software to lower the overall waste in our inventory and retail systems.

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Ten Supply Chain Predictions for 2023

NC State SCRC

My colleague Jason Miller from Michigan State is an expert at navigating the many different publicly available government database, and interpreting the tea leaves. Despite having a lot more PPE in warehouses, hospitals are still struggling with a lot of shortages. Inflation will persist.

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Hurricane Season Brings New Risks to Pandemic-stressed Supply Chain Chains

Enterra Insights

The third named storm, Cristobal, soaked areas from southeast Louisiana to north Florida and south Georgia, then became only the fourth tropical storm to track into Wisconsin or its adjacent Lake Michigan waters in more than 100 years of records. Construction material suppliers, warehouses, and grocery stores come immediately to mind.

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Advanced Analytics Continue to Get a Bigger Plate at the Manufacturing Dinner Table

GlobalTranz

Over the past few months, the media has given a surmountable amount of attention to the water problems of Flint, Michigan. For example, a warehouse management system that is not currently connected to the other warehouses in the network cannot accurately generate a demand forecast for a given time period.

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Why Learning Technologies will Fundamentally Transform Retail and Supply Chain

BlueYonder

v] There are tremendous opportunities to understand behavior patterns and clues to anticipate shopper needs, understand personal preferences, predict purchase paths, forecast demand, estimate returns, anticipate supply disruptions and much more. Learning will improve with the abundance of data. Again, performance improves with experience.

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Move Over, Resilience: a Dynamic Approach Is Here to Save Supply Chain

Elementum

Take, for example, this whitepaper by Michigan State University’s Department of Supply Chain. Diversifying source materials, offshoring, and switching to domestic warehouses haven’t worked for the past 20+ years—and they certainly won’t work now. Many of their recommendations make sense—until they start talking about resilience.