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Maps Are More Than Eye Candy

by Michael Watson

We all like to look at nice graphic or visualization. But, as it becomes easier to create nice graphics and visualizations, some have become more art than conveying information.

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3D Printing May Have A Big Impact: New IBM White Paper

by Michael Watson

IBM recently published a white paper called “The New Software-Defined Supply Chain”. We had a chance to participate in this work. The paper discusses how 3D printing (aka additive…

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Using Safety Stock to Buffer Against Variability

by Michael Watson

Dealing with variability is part of creating a lean supply chain (or lean enterprise). Ideally, you would like to eliminate the variability. However, this is not always possible. When it is…

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What is a Data Scientist?

by Michael Watson

With the rise of big data and data in general (see here for a definition of big data), there is an increased need for people to analyze that data to turn it into information. Thomas Davenport and D.J. Patil recently wrote an…

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Analytics for Small and Medium Sized Firms

by Michael Watson

A lot of press around analytics is focused on large and exciting projects. But, analytics can be applied to firms of any size.

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Network Design Book Reviews

by Michael Watson

If you are involved in a network design project — whether running the software, managing the project or just part of the team — you should consider our book, Supply Chain Network Design. We wrote the book to help people do…

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Interview: Impact of the New Hours of Service Rules

by Michael Watson

We recently did a video interview on Supply Chain Digest (starting at about the 3:20 mark) on the trucking industry’s new Hours of Service Rules (basically increasing the limit on the…

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Three Definitions of Big Data for the Supply Chain Manager

by Michael Watson

I recently wrote a blog post on SCDigest about the three definitions of “big data”.

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