Dr. Manjeet Singh, DHL’s Director of Global Operations Science and Analytics, talks about how machine learning and artificial intelligence are changing the world of supply chain management.

Episode Notes:

Convergence of data collection, processing power, techniques resulting in products like autonomous vehicle, SIRI and the jobs to support them 3:44.
Meta data and raw data 6:38.
There will never be full autonomy 7:38.
DP DHL 9:18.
DHL Supply Chain 9:48.
Retail supply chain 12:10.
DHL locating facilities to respond to Retail demands 13:17.
Robotics for picking (Lead Me, Swarm) 15:00.
Picking productivity 17:46.
Managing transportation 20:31.
Supply chain planning 21:05.
USPS for last mile 21:53.
My Supply Chain for tracking 23:02.
Autonomous fleet trials 24:18.
Ecommerce capacity and labor 25:33.
Machine learning, advanced heuristics software 32.
Idea toolkit to optimize picking 34:16.
Value of training associates 39:37.
Labor shortage 41:21.
Carton Optimization Process developed through collaboration with academia 43:28.
Consolidating training 47:44.
D3TO platform to consolidate shipments 51:36.
Supply Chain Guru from Lamasoft for network optimization 55:30.
Apian, JDA 55:54.
WMS Manhattan, JDA, SAP. Predictive/prescriptive analytics 57:16.
Continuous optimization 1:00:36.
Digitization 1:02:02.
ROI, profit sharing with customers, 20-40% improvement in picking productivity 1:09:04.