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Local Speed Factories: When the need for speed is vital
The SpeedFactory App, I developed and hosted on this website, makes the news at Vlerick Business School in a nice article written by Professor Robert Boute.
Oct 11, 2018 1 min read
How 'Speed Factories' help companies adapt to capricious consumers
My current work-in-progress with Robert Boute (KULeuven) and Jan Van Mieghem (NorthWestern) on Speed Factories has been summarised into a nice article written by Sachin Waikar appearing in Kellogg Insight.
Aug 31, 2018 1 min read
The order-up-to policy found to create chaos in supply chains
Together with my co-author Xun Wang, I have been investigating the dynamic response of the order-up-to (OUT) replenishment policy. This is the algorithm used in many ERP/MRP systems to make replenishment orders.
Sep 16, 2017 1 min read
Activity sampling procedure updated so it does what is says on the tin
A few years ago I was grading my MBA exams. One of the questions was on Activity Sampling which I have taught based on the the Wald Interval, the standard Operations Management textbook method for identifying the confidence interval.
Sep 18, 2016 2 min read