Top Stories published by The Opex Analytics Blog in October of 2013

Three Factors To Determine Supplier Delivery Frequency

by Michael Watson

Determining the best delivery frequency for suppliers into your facilities involves trading off three key factors.


Three Types of Buffers

by Michael Watson

I recently wrote an article for Supply Chain Digest (“Three Types of Supply Chain Buffers”) that discussed that every supply chain has variability and will buffer this variability with some form of inventory, capacity, or time.


Comment on “Is Big Data an Economic Big Dud?”

by Michael Watson

The New York Times recently wrote an article entitled “Is Big Data an Economic Big Dud?”. Here is part of the article questioning the value of big data: