The complex world of omni-channel retailing has introduced a new realm of analytical challenges. I touched on this topic briefly after the San Diego RILA Conference and have had a few months to work on a variety of conceptual designs and modeling approaches. In this time I have confirmed that the commonality amongst omni-channel solutions …
Continue reading “OR and Omni-Channel Retailing – A match made in Heaven”
I have used this space primarily to talk about the innovative application of advanced mathematical techniques and Operations Research methods to solve difficult business problems. Of course I have mixed in some home brewing and tasty beer rhetoric but that’s just to keep things real. From my perspective, as an OR professional and customer of …
Continue reading “The Intersection of Math, Supply Chain and Cloud Computing”
OK, a pre-warning, y’all have to work with me a little this time around. This idea has been swimming around in my brain so I thought it would be fun to share even at the risk of being deemed an even bigger dORk than was originally thought (although what’s the risk in that?) The typical …
Continue reading “Wayne’s wORld: Parallel wORlds – Homebrewing and OR…Weird but True”
Good day from the ever-changing world of supply chain optimization. This was a big week with a quick update on the action at Modex and some excellent business news. Here’s a little context for the Modex show as it might be new to you as it was to me this year. Modex is a huge …
Continue reading “Wayne's World: Special Edition – Modex In Atlanta… What A Show!!!”
Not to take too much liberty with my grunge theme wrapped around state-of-the-art Operations Research analytical techniques, but when you think back about all the planning and scheming you have done (whatever the purpose…road trips, parties, beer recipes, supplier purchase order planning) there was always some “dude” who had the crazy idea that became the …
Continue reading “Wayne's World: Dude, Sounds Like A Great Plan!”
I had a few people ask me at Modex why Wayne’s wORld ignored proper use of capitalization and the “O” and “R” are bold. At first I was wondering if my passion wasn’t coming through in my words but then I thought maybe I need to work on this a little bit. In short my …
I remember when growing up my parents and teachers would tell me to get my head out of the clouds. I always thought it was because I’m pretty tall (6’3”, 1.9m for non-US readers or Jimmy Carter fans J). Turns out they were just telling me to focus in a nice way. Fortunately the concept …
I know the early followers of this totally cool blog are anxiously waiting to read about all things Cloud at Solvoyo, but we are taking a brief intermission to get my take on the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) Conference in sunny San Diego, CA. The retail supply chain problem is very complex and dynamic. …
While I was a member of the Dell Worldwide Operational Strategy organization I met Dr. Koray Dogan who introduced me to i2’s Supply Chain Strategist. SCS is a traditional mixed integer program (MIP) used primarily for supply chain network optimization. In the SCS years we talked about things we wished we could do such as …
Continue reading “Linear and Non-Linear, Single Application, No Way! … Way!”
For those of us who catch the Operations Research (OR) bug the passion runs pretty deep. After you get through Hillier and Lieberman or Winston (another Wayne BTW, coincidence? I don’t think so) in Intro to OR you just can’t get enough. Some dudes hang out in the basement, rock out with their buds and …
