Gene Ramsay, Author at Profit Point

Are You a Leader in Improving Your Business Results?

Gene RamsayDecember 1, 2015

Article[Distribution, Global Supply Chain, Green Network, Network Design, Optimization, Optimization Software, Scheduling, Solver Optimization, Supply Chain Improvement, Supply Chain Optimization, Supply Chain Planning]

Profit Point has been helping companies apply mathematical techniques to improve their business decisions for 20 years now, and it is interesting to review some of the advances in technology that have occurred over this time that have most enabled us to help our clients, including: • The ability for companies to capture, store and …
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Challenges in Multi-National Resource Management: the Mekong

Gene RamsayAugust 6, 2015

Article[Enterprise Resource Planning, Global Supply Chain, Green Network, Green Optimization, Network Design, Sustainability]

One of our main activities at Profit Point is to help companies and organizations to plan better, to make informed decisions that lead to improvements such as more efficient use of resources, lower cost, higher profit and reduced risk. Frequently we use computer models to compare the projected results for multiple alternative futures, so that …
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Defining Your Bill of Materials Correctly is a Key to Successful Supply Chain Analysis

Gene RamsayApril 22, 2015

Article[Global Supply Chain, Network Design, Operations Research, Optimization, Profit Network, Supply Chain Improvement, Supply Chain Optimization, Supply Chain Planning, Supply Chain Software]

At Profit Point network design analysis, answering such questions as • how many facilities a business needs, • how large they should be and where they should be located, and • how they should change over time, etc. is one of our specialties. We have performed this type of analysis for a range of companies …
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A New Tool for Evaluating Water Risk in Supply Chain Planning

Gene RamsayNovember 14, 2014

Article[Global Supply Chain, Green Network, Green Optimization, Network Design, Operations Research, Optimization, Optimization Software, Profit Network, Risk Management, Supply Chain Improvement, Supply Chain Optimization, Supply Chain Planning, Sustainability]

In developing a supply chain network design there are many criteria to consider – including such factors as the impact of the facility choices on • Cost of running the system, • current and future customer service, • ability to respond to changes in the market, and • risk of costly intangible events in the …
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The Northern Sea Route – A New Link in the Global Supply Chain

Gene RamsayJuly 17, 2014

Article[Global Supply Chain, Green Network, Network Design, Optimization Software, Supply Chain Agility, Supply Chain Improvement, Supply Chain Optimization, Sustainability, Transportation]

Many of our activities at Profit Point are focused on helping clients in identifying and implementing changes that improve the efficiency of existing supply chain networks, ranging from planning to operations and scheduling. In the short term we are usually trying to find ways to use existing capabilities more effectively, but as you look out …
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Insourcing or Outsourcing Your Supply Chain Optimization?

Gene RamsayApril 16, 2014

Article[Global Supply Chain, Network Design, Operations Research, Optimization, Optimization Software, Profit Network, Supply Chain Optimization, Supply Chain Planning, Supply Chain Software]

Recently I had the opportunity to speak to an operations management class for MBA students in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. The class is intended to give the students an introduction to a variety of problems that they might encounter during their careers, and to management science techniques that might be applied to …
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Managing Your Supply Chain Bill (of Materials, That Is)

Gene RamsayAugust 5, 2013

Article[Distribution, Global Supply Chain, Green Network, Network Design, Optimization, Supply Chain Improvement, Supply Chain Optimization, Supply Chain Planning, Sustainability]

When we help our clients improve their supply chains the first step in the process is usually to identify what problem they need to solve, or what questions they are trying to answer. Examples of such questions might be What will be the impact of several possible capital investments in our distribution system? A major …
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