Master Your 3 Business Planning Horizons
As a manager you can break up your planning horizons into time frames as broad or narrow as you see fit. Often, these horizons are
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Master Data- The Hidden Anchor on Your Profits
Master data may be the least exciting topic of all time, so you might wonder why I would put pen to paper to talk about
Winner: Best AI-based Data Science Solution, Austin Data Labs
We’re so pleased to have been selected as a winner of the 2021 AI Breakthrough Award for Best AI-based Data Science Solution for our work
Managing labor shortages with software
Over the last year a story about labor has emerged in production supply chain companies. There appears to be a major shortage of labor: not
Relying on spreadsheets is risky business for your supply chain
co-author Celso Batista It’s safe to say that most of us have built a quick and dirty spreadsheet in our careers that then morphs into
Capital expenditure: software vs equipment
Food supply chain managers know that companies have limited capital to invest in their future. In spite of this, the list of potential projects looms,
Webinar: Optimizing your complex dairy supply chain with data science
How do you improve, optimize, and stabilize your dairy supply chain in a time of increasing volatility? With data science. Our industry experts and data
Your ERP can’t handle your time varying and multiple alternate bill of materials
You know the only thing that’s constant in agriculture is change. Milk, cattle, and many other agricultural products vary in composition, quality, and size throughout
Navigating ERP shortfalls for meat and dairy
Traditional ERP and supply chain planning solutions handle the assembly process well. Building a product is much more straightforward than the process commodity agriculture products
AgriTech unconstrained: complement your SAP solution with the power of data science
The stuffing in your turkey The meal on your Thanksgiving Day plate comes from a small farmer from Iowa, a big meat processor in North
Tandem implementation of your new ERP and data science programs nets better early ROI
ERP implementations are expensive, complex, and time consuming – this means achieving the most ROI possible is essential. We’ve seen incredible ROI linking ERP implementations
Solving volatility with data science for the dairy industry
As COVID-19 continues to have an outsized impact on global supply chains, it’s vital that your business has software that can not only support your
2 ways you can tell whether Artificial Intelligence is right for your supply chain or manufacturing operation
Does your project meet at least two of the following criteria? If so, our Artificial Intelligence modules are right for you. No clear theory underlies
Integrating price lists with product availability
Pricing in deconstruction commodities businesses like meat and dairy is practically inseparable from the product you have left to sell. Lack of data about what
Pricing with structure, gut feel, or both?
If you have never given pricing complexity any thought other than “Yep, pricing is a challenge,” allow me to outline processes that can simplify and
Production and demand planning without sticky notes
Are you a production planner drowning in a sea of sticky notes and spreadsheets? We understand how difficult it is to make hard, fast decisions
Data Science and AI can end your ERP horror story
If you have been in a corporate office for any time at all you’ve certainly heard horror stories of ERP implementations. These stories often sound
Bad employees, or bad information?
During the 15 years I worked in the meat industry I managed many areas, including sales, product management, pricing, production scheduling, and project management. The
Can your product pass the Turing Test?
Before you start huffing and puffing, let me explain what I mean. I don’t mean Turing Test in the usual sense. Let’s take the example
Pricing – Don’t let perfect get in the way of better
Nothing can be simpler than a price. Be it that of Delicious Reds in the local supermarket, or Apple stock on NASDAQ, a price is
Can data science pick stars in individual sports, say Tennis?
Statistics has become such a prevalent tool in team sports today that I won’t be surprised if teams even test a potential star recruit on
Surprising Trends in Interest in Data Science
You would think that the interest in data science and it’s largest sub-discipline, machine-learning, must have been rising steadily through the years. Well, if Google