Tom Linton

5 days ago | rocksins.com | Tom Linton

With 2000Trees creeping up on us faster and faster, we thought we might have been done with any new additions for 2025 from our friends at 2000trees. Well, we can think again. Just when we thought the line up was locked in and we had no more acts to look forward to, the organisers have given us an extra little treat with four new additions.

2 months ago | hbr.org | David Simchi-Levi |Tom Linton |Jeevan Pathuri |Ishai Menache

Over the past few decades, advances in information technologies have allowed firms working to optimize their supply chains to move from decision-making on the basis of intuition and experience to more automated and data-driven methods, which has increased efficiency and reduced costs. Unfortunately, business planners and executives still need to expend considerable effort to understand the recommendations coming out of their systems, analyze various scenarios, and conduct what-if analyses. They often need to pull in data science teams or technology providers to explain results or make updates to the system. Now, advances in large language models (LLMs), a type of generative AI, are increasingly making it possible to perform those activities without such support. LLM-based technology can automate data discovery, insight generation, and scenario analysis, reducing the time to make decisions from days to minutes and dramatically increasing planners’ and executives’ productivity and impact. The authors draw from Microsoft’s cloud business experience to explore how LLMs can be used to optimize supply chains. They also identify obstacles firms will need to overcome to deploy LLMs effectively.

Mar 3, 2025 | hbritalia.it | Ishai Menache |Jeevan Pathuri |David Simchi-Levi |Tom Linton

Le aziende si trovano ad affrontare una serie di sfide complesse nella progettazione e nell’ottimizzazione delle loro supply chain. Aumentare la resilienza, ridurre i costi e migliorare la qualità della pianificazione sono solo alcune di queste. Negli ultimi decenni, i progressi nelle tecnologie dell’informazione hanno permesso alle aziende di passare da decisioni basate sull’intuizione e sull’esperienza a metodi più automatizzati e basati sui dati.

Oct 15, 2024 | galvnews.com | Tom Linton

Dolph Tillotson has had articles with a picture and name assigned over the years that many would have thought, at least twice, before making public. His latest — hopefully — is not that way. There is in his column ("It turns out polite political disagreement is possible," The Daily News, Oct. 5) an underlying theme that might be comprisable to a biblical admonition — Isaiah 1:18. This theme was demonstrated in the vice-presidential debate on Oct.

May 26, 2024 | southtexasnews.com | Tom Linton

In search of the legacy of Coach Bob LeachTom LintonHow many of you remember the glory days of the Cougars at Joe Hunter Field in the early eighties? Bob Leach was the coach and the Cougars were the pride of the community. Often written up in the Beeville Picayune because of their exploits and the famous - yet to be made more famous in the Major Leagues – by players that came with the other teams to provide the stout competition for the Cougars.