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