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Lokad's Quantitative Supply Chain Blog is where supply chain and rocket science meet.
The Quantitative Supply Chain represents a novel and disruptive perspective on the optimization of supply chains.
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10M ago
Matthieu Durut, second employee at Lokad, defended his PhD back in 2012 for his research work done at Lokad. This PhD paved the way for the transition of Lokad toward cloud-native distributed computing architectures, nowadays critical to deal with large-scale supply chains ..read more
Lokad Blog
10M ago
Gaetan Delétoille's PhD research on MOQs — a surprisingly under-researched area of supply chain — introduced the w-policy, something Lokad integrated into its solution for daily inventory decision-making ..read more
Lokad Blog
11M ago
This post highlights the revolutionary work of Lokad's first employee, Benoit Patra, in transforming supply chain theory, setting the stage for the future development of our probabilistic forecasting approach ..read more
Lokad Blog
1y ago
Over the years, Lokad has gained some notoriety, and we have earned the privilege of being part of an increasingly large number of RFI (request for information), RFP (request for proposal) and RFP (request for quote) related to supply chain optimization ..read more
Lokad Blog
1y ago
Lokad offers a flat monthly fee for software and expert services, ensuring optimal supply chain performance. Traditional optimization software fails due to inadequate maintenance. Lokad's supply chain scientists maintain automation, requiring ongoing engineering resources to prevent reverting to inefficient spreadsheet management ..read more
Lokad Blog
1y ago
The broad field of machine learning (ML) provides a wide array of techniques and methods that cover numerous situations. Supply chain, however, comes with its own specific set of data challenges, and sometimes aspects that might be deemed “basic” by supply chain practitioners do not benefit from satisfying ML instruments – at least according to our standards ..read more
Lokad Blog
1y ago
Almost exactly 18 months ago, I wrote a post to celebrate passing 3,000 subscribers on LokadTV. That post, in fact, was written almost 18 months after we celebrated passing 1,000 subscribers. Curiously enough, we passed 1000 subscribers about 18 months after we began actively promoting the channel ..read more
Lokad Blog
1y ago
The last couple of years haven’t been kind to supply chains. In fact, the only thing that hasn’t been in short supply appears to be forces of disruption':' lockdowns, wars, inflation, etc. As a result, a newfound interest in ‘resilient’ supply chains has emerged ..read more
Lokad Blog
1y ago
The state of supply chain communication is dismal. By way of anecdotal evidence, for the last couple of months, my daily morning routine consists of attempting to find one post – just one – that qualifies as _worthy of interest_ to an audience of supply chain minded people – in order to have it shared on news.lokad.com. This seemingly simple exercise proves exceedingly difficult. Most days, I do not succeed ..read more
Lokad Blog
1y ago
The last couple of years haven’t been kind to supply chains. In fact, the only thing that hasn’t been in short supply appears to be forces of disruption':' lockdowns, wars, inflation, etc. As a result, a newfound interest in ‘resilient’ supply chains has emerged ..read more