Category Archives: Sustainability

Automating Supply Chain Resilience – High on Your Digital Agenda?

Posted on February 11, 2017 by | Leave a comment

Can we use software and analytics to help insure supply chain resilience?  MIT and others are doing a lot of study in this area.  and so are a lot of companies.  This will be a growth area for software companies who come up with clever solutions that can be integrated with existing data and systems and which actually work. Entrepreneurs, start your engines!!

Here is the survey mentioned in the article: cse-2016-final-dsciwhitepaper-resilience

Source: Automating Supply Chain Resilience Should Be High on Your Digital Agenda

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Posted in Advanced Computing, Production Operations, Service Management, Supply Chains, Sustainability

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A conversation with Jerry Brown

Posted on December 16, 2016 by | Leave a comment

Gov Jerry Brown speaks at the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting.

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New Tool Brings Logistics Carbon Emissions into Sharp Focus

Posted on December 9, 2016 by | Leave a comment

Serious thought is being given to emisions caused by logistics. Most of it is in Europe. So it is not hard to see why MIT in Zaragoza is bringing out a simpler tool to allow firms with complex movements of goods to visualize and calculate their emissions in a standardized way.

Source: New Tool Brings Logistics Carbon Emissions into Sharp Focus

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