MANUFACTURING ARTICLES

Text analytics goes mobile
Technology enables companies to make critical management decisions in a fraction of the time.

Supply Chain Management: New math, big data
Across the supply chain, manufacturers and retailers are exploiting the "vital raw material of the information economy."

Analyze This!: ‘Shareholder engagement’ keys analytics teams’ success at Cisco

Last Word: The Box That Changed Our Lives

QED: Six Sigma Operations: From Manufacturing to Pricing

Was It Something I Said: The Bullwhip Effect

Serving the Services Industry
The emerging science of service management opens opportunities for business analytics.

Corporate Profile: Optimizing Weyerhaeuser’s Renewable Resources

Corporate Profile: General Electric Global Research Center

Software Solutions: The ABCs of Simulation Practice
From “arrivals” to “z-values,” an alphabet soup of key components for applying knowledge and judgment to simulation problems.

Innovative O.R.: Intel Wins INFORMS Prize

Edelman Award: Less is More for HP
Hewlett-Packard earns coveted analytics practice prize by transforming management of massive product portfolio.

Flaw of Averages: Probability Management in Action

Business-to-business: The Evolution of Pricing
From paper reports to spreadsheets to business intelligence, smarter pricing algorithms are being developed every day. So what’s next? Real science.

Executive Edge: Seeing the Future in Value Chain Management
Cisco’s strategy: Bring together formerly “silo-ed” teams around a shared nucleus of governance, metrics and culture.

Advanced Analytics for Sales & Operations Planning
Effective S&OP decision-making can’t be achieved without insights from analytics.

Driving Value Chain Resiliency Through Analytics
How Cisco’s dedicated SCRM team helps tame large, complex, global supply chain.

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‘Big data’ a big deal

Terra Technology’s transportation forecasting improves Kraft Foods efficiency