As the global population continues to grow, meeting the world’s demand for animal protein in a sustainable way is becoming increasingly challenging. Data science offers
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Did you know that nearly 1/3 of all food produced is wasted or lost?
This food waste has far-reaching economic, social, and environmental consequences, including increased greenhouse gas emissions and squandered resources such as water, energy, and land. By leveraging data science as a platform, we can make significant strides in reducing food waste and tackling the challenges outlined in this McKinsey report. Data science provides valuable insights into the causes and potential solutions to food waste, enabling us to create a more efficient and sustainable food supply chain.
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Balancing Dairy Processor Price Risk: Harnessing Inventory as a Natural Hedge
Data science can seem like a daunting addition to your supply chain process, but it can bring significant benefits. Here are 5 common sense ways data science can benefit the processed meat product supply chain:
We explore three ways data science optimization can help agriculture-based businesses enhance packaging, logistics, and product waste management to achieve sustainable outcomes and reach ESG goals.
We’re excited to join the Be Empowered with Ever.Ag webinar series on March 23rd at 1:00 PM CDT/11:00 AM PDT. Our CEO Simon Drake will be a featured speaker, joining Ever.Ag’s CEO Scott Sexton for the webinar “Harvesting Insights with AgTech: How Data Science is Revolutionizing the Supply Chain.” We’ll be talking about using your existing data plus the power of AI-based data science to optimize your end-to-end food supply chain.
Uber-ization of trucks in the supply chain – is it good or bad for commodity ag? Let’s find out.
Girl Scout Cookie Supply Chain Woes slowing down your cookie order. Find out why.
In this post we’ll examine the concept of integrated business optimization. It’s not uncommon for a CEO or business unit leader to think they have
We’re honored to be named one of 2022’s Top Software and Technology Providers by Food Logistics for our work with our customers in the cold food and beverage supply chain.
Add data science to your cold food and beverage supply chain arsenal.
What can data science help optimize in a commodity deconstruction business like meat or dairy? Data science can forecast the impact of commodity supply variability
Download our latest white paper: Applying Data Science to the Integrated Retail Meat Supply Chain
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Supply chain planning and optimization impacts business incentives and often requires change management simultaneously to implementation. Find out more in this post
We’ve all seen empty supermarkets shelves recently, waited much longer than usual for an online delivery, or experienced port and shipping problems. It’s fair to
In this webcast Hamish Keston, and Director of Optimization, Europe, Robbie Turner, talk about the ins and outs of the diary business and data science. This episode: Sales Book Optionality for Dairy
Doing what we do at Austin Data Labs matters, and requires dedication. As the pandemic and climate change made the world’s food supply chain increasingly volatile over the last two years, our team stepped up to make sure our products were growing and adapting at a faster rate than ever before, supporting the farmers and food companies that are feeding the planet. We’re pretty excited that our company is being recognized by Inc. Magazine as a 2022 Best Workplaces winner!
varying BOMs and multiple alternative BOMs are important to commodity agricultural disassembly supply chains. Because they support recipes that vary over time, they are complex (and they also add complexity to your optimization program).
In the first episode of our newest short video series, Meat Matters, Chief Industry Officer Dave Brown and CEO Simon Drake take on the beast: Excel spreadsheets. They talk about why you should stop using Excel to run your meat business.
We talked about the role of supply side factors in dairy supply chain volatility last week. Find out more about the long term demand outlook trends for dairy producers
chain disruption has been at the forefront of dairy producers’ minds in recent years as weather, pandemics, inflationary pressures, regulatory changes, food uncertainty, and more contribute to supply chain volatility.
Learn about Capital Investment and Supply and Demand Balance for Dairy
One way dairy producers deal with changing inputs in their dairy supply chain is through protein standardization. By taking an input and making it a standard consistency dairy producers can achieve output specification, so as the input varies the output stays constant.
This week on Udderly Understandable, Hamish and Robbie explain how the burgeoning conflict in Ukraine may impact the dairy industry and commodity ag.
In a cooperative dairy business model, the various suppliers are also owners of the company. This enables smaller dairy producers to band together to have more leverage and reach for their products, as well as more control over both their processes and their products.
During times of upheaval, the most important thing you can have for supply chain resilience is extreme visibility.
Learn about the intricacies of disassembly vs assembly dairy supply chains and how they differ from standard production lines.
In this first episode of our series of dairy shorts, Udderly Understandable, Hamish Keston, our SVP Dairy, talks with Robbie Turner, our Director of Optimization
There is a concept that applying data science to your business will automate processes, consolidate information faster, make employees lives easier, and allow them to go home earlier. All of that is true! It does leave an important part out, however. What often doesn’t get mentioned is that data science comprehensively considers so many nuances of your business, all at once, that understanding its optimized scenarios will require significant hours of training, as well as a mindset change within your planning team.
data to work: it’s hard to know which to choose first: an ERP system or a planning system.
3 Ways to Improve Forecast Accuracy with Process Improvement
It’s one thing to identify the opportunities for higher returns across your dairy supply chain but then the challenge becomes how to operationalize that across
We agree with Gary Marcus that deep learning alone is not the answer to your supply chain problems. That’s one reason we make sure our
To understand why the North favors cheese and the South favors WMP, start by looking at new plant builds over the last 20 years. You’ll
Recently, I was doing a deep dive on Gartner’s framework for software applications in PACE Layered Architecture. It breaks down software applications in use at
In the world of agricultural commodity processing, understanding the relative value of product streams is crucial to getting the most out of your production assets.
As a manager you can break up your planning horizons into time frames as broad or narrow as you see fit. Often, these horizons are
Master data may be the least exciting topic of all time, so you might wonder why I would put pen to paper to talk about
We’re so pleased to have been selected as a winner of the 2021 AI Breakthrough Award for Best AI-based Data Science Solution for our work
Over the last year a story about labor has emerged in production supply chain companies. There appears to be a major shortage of labor: not
co-author Celso Batista It’s safe to say that most of us have built a quick and dirty spreadsheet in our careers that then morphs into
Food supply chain managers know that companies have limited capital to invest in their future. In spite of this, the list of potential projects looms,
How do you improve, optimize, and stabilize your dairy supply chain in a time of increasing volatility? With data science. Our industry experts and data
You know the only thing that’s constant in agriculture is change. Milk, cattle, and many other agricultural products vary in composition, quality, and size throughout
Traditional ERP and supply chain planning solutions handle the assembly process well. Building a product is much more straightforward than the process commodity agriculture products
The stuffing in your turkey The meal on your Thanksgiving Day plate comes from a small farmer from Iowa, a big meat processor in North
ERP implementations are expensive, complex, and time consuming – this means achieving the most ROI possible is essential. We’ve seen incredible ROI linking ERP implementations
As COVID-19 continues to have an outsized impact on global supply chains, it’s vital that your business has software that can not only support your
Does your project meet at least two of the following criteria? If so, our Artificial Intelligence modules are right for you. No clear theory underlies
Pricing in deconstruction commodities businesses like meat and dairy is practically inseparable from the product you have left to sell. Lack of data about what
If you have never given pricing complexity any thought other than “Yep, pricing is a challenge,” allow me to outline processes that can simplify and
Are you a production planner drowning in a sea of sticky notes and spreadsheets? We understand how difficult it is to make hard, fast decisions
If you have been in a corporate office for any time at all you’ve certainly heard horror stories of ERP implementations. These stories often sound
During the 15 years I worked in the meat industry I managed many areas, including sales, product management, pricing, production scheduling, and project management. The
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