The Brief – May 2022

Retails’ Climate Change Responsibility — Part Two: Diverse Strategies for Rapidly Reducing Transportation Emissions

By Bill McBeath

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

We examine strategies and techniques for making near-term reductions to carbon emissions from transportation, such as improving driving behavior and vehicle performance, minimizing and optimizing returns, increasing first-attempt delivery rates, consolidation and mix-mode strategies, integrating private fleet with purchased transportation, and forecast accuracy and inventory optimization for hyperlocal distribution. [ Read: Retails’ Climate Change Responsibility—Part Two ]

AI/Machine Learning Use Cases for Supply Chain — Part Three: Getting Results

AI/ML has created radically new and different capabilities in supply chain solutions. This requires a rethink of the process of achieving results and value from those solutions. [ Read: AI/Machine Learning Use Cases for Supply Chain—Part Three ]

Space-Based Manufacturing and Logistics — Part One: Why Now?

Plummeting launch costs are poised to make manufacturing in space economically feasible for a set of materials and products that can take advantage of unique attributes of space-based production. Here we explore why space-based manufacturing may be on the verge of becoming a reality. [ Read: Space-Based Manufacturing and Logistics—Pt1 ]