Supply chain disruptions are anything but uncommon. 2018 saw 2,629 disruption events being reported.[i] In 2019, 51.9% of firms experienced supply chain disruptions, with 10% experiencing six or more disruptions.[ii] Largely, these were man-made (79%).…

Defense logistics (DL) is a significant and mostly untapped knowledge area in the field of Production Engineering, despite its importance. As a result, this article aims to define the domain of the DL issue. The emphasis is on industrial, technical, institutional, organizational, and, in particular, strategic management elements of logistics in the…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is highly demanded practically in every industry. The greatest example of the successful usage of top-notch technology is the retailers and other e-commerce companies, especially, their…

The pandemic has shown how vulnerable our supply chains are. A small interruption can bring a supply chain to a halt, which in today’s fast-paced world, is simply not acceptable. Customers are always expecting their product to arrive on time when ordered, and any delay in the…

I love talking about business models because in the end, it’s usually the best business model, not the best technology, that wins the day. And digital transformation has the potential to reinvent business models by leveraging superior customer, product and operational insights to disrupt industry value chains and disintermediate customer relationships (see Figure 1).…

COVID-19 is changing consumer behavior and driving more people to shop online. At BigBasket alone, we have witnessed a surge in demand by 5X – 6X during the initial days of the lockdown in India. While the pandemic has driven the global demand for essentials and goods online, it has also brought on some new challenges for the e-commerce industry.

Leveraging artificial intelligence and data science to optimize e-commerce operations

Balancing the…

Big data, huh? No matter where you look, there it is! And this seeming omnipresence is not without reason, i.e., the technology does indeed play a vital role in the world today. Defined as an amalgamation of different tools to gather and closely analyze data, big data delivers highly valuable insights and analysis. As you can imagine, this ability has made it highly beneficial to, well, literally every industry and business on the face of Earth. That holds for the manufacturing industry…

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Business Recovery after COVID 19

Currently, the world is facing the most challenging time and going through economic turmoil. One of the important priorities of many companies is to recover quickly from the current scenario and be operational as quickly as possible. The coronavirus has impacted many companies and this economic hit is very fast throughout the world. Companies around the globe are looking…

Even the layman would know that the manufacturing industry is an inherently complicated endeavor, owing to the many, many factors involved. It has been at the center of some intense change and a lot of this can be ascribed to technology. The evolution of technology over the past few decades has empowered the industry with countless tools and resources, allowing companies operating in the space to continue on the path to growth. Unfortunately, there is one technology that seems to be a tad…

Silicon wafer reclaim is a wafer that is processed, stripped, polished, cleaned, and reprocessed for various applications such as for the manufacturing of solar cells, integrated circuits, and more. Furthermore, it is a process that converts used wafer into a functioning good quality wafer known as test wafer at a much cheaper cost. With the help of…

It's a question I often wondered about as a child, as I marveled at NYC skyscrapers during my first visit there, or when I visited Cape Canaveral or the Golden Gate Bridge. I don't claim I will provide a full answer to this question in this short post. However, recently, I've been studying two types of tools that are very useful in handling the mindbogglingly numerous details of a complicated project. And I would like to tell you about those 2 tools here. So this is going to…

eCommerce is an integral part of retail for human existence today – thanks to technology. It has played a critical role in e-commerce’s journey thus far and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. And in the more recent context, there’s one in particular that has proven to be of special interest in the world of e-commerce: Internet of Things. It is because of the peculiar ability of IoT enabled devices to exchange and share data with other devices in the…

Mike Romeri, CEO

Analytics2Go

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, virtually all companies have faced significant changes in demand.  Some companies have seen significant increases (e.g., grocery chains, packaged food companies), and others have seen their revenue drop to unsustainable levels (e.g., air travel, hospitality, automotive). Still others have seen both outcomes if they serve different industry segments with very different levels of end-user demand.

While the…

I want to share with you my article about marketplaces. If you are interested in creating one or want to improve your existing marketplace you might be interested in this information. I worked with SPD Group experts to give you the latest information on the subject! 

To get the most revenue out of your effort, it is important to pick…

What is a custom web scraping tool?

A custom web scraping tool is a web scraping software that allows its users to extract data from websites without writing a single line of code. Tools of this kind are built on web scraping techniques. In other words, it’s a coding-free web scraper.

What can you do with custom web scraping tools?…

According to the Consumer Technology Association, AI has a lot of benefits in the retail sector from the consumer experience, minimized cost, enhanced productivity, faster resolution of business problems, quicker delivery of products and services. 

The increased AI…