Operational AI Helps Foodservice Companies Optimize Their Supply Chains

Use machine learning to sense, plan and act on the micro-events that determine supply and demand across the entire food supply chain.

March 18, 2019

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Artificial intelligence is ushering in a new way of looking at supply chain optimization. It is allowing supply chain managers to compress the sense-plan-act cycle to almost real-time intervals. Companies that plan supply and demand on a monthly or weekly basis can now read signals from their supply chain in seconds, plan based on the realities of the moment and take immediate action based on the new plan.

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