A traditional economy follows a linear "take-make-use-dispose" path. A circular economy, in contrast, retains the value of ...

Past innovations can solve today’s supply chain challenges. Over the past few decades, innovations in network design have changed the way companies organize their supply chains. One model that has ...

The schematic illustrates a framework of the supply chain contagion-adjusted financial stress model. Firm-to-firm network at the bottom represents the real economy and the upper network of banks ...

We consider a simple supply chain in which a single supplier sells to several downstream retailers. The supplier has limited capacity, and retailers are privately informed of their optimal stocking ...

Feeding this kind of data into a traditional, non-AI supply chain design tool without doing expensive data cleaning beforehand will not result in a useful model. The baseline will be flawed, so ...

With multiple tiers of redundancy in a network, business operations are never restricted or stopped. Because productivity restrictions or work stoppages get compounded the farther you go down the ...

Warehousing will be transformed in the open-network supply chain model created by a team led by American Eagle’s Shekar Natarajan. BY FastCo Works Supply chains—the increasingly vast and ...