Artificial intelligence and the consumer packaged goods supply chain

This study explores how Goods (CPG) industry to what trends this industry supply chain in the next solutions in an attempt to of this technology. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will help the Consumer Packaged address the future challenges in its supply chain. It analyses is already exposed to, and the impacts of those trends in its five years. The work also explores examples of available Al match the demand generated by future trends with the supply The scope is limited to the CPG manufacturers with a bigger focus on planning and distribution rather than manufacturing, since these processes are present in any company with small variances. Other supply chain players such as material suppliers, retailers, distributors, third party logistics (3PL), etc. are covered at a high level since they are part of the network and influence the dynamic of the system.

Department dc:contributor.department

Sloan School of Management.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Blanco, Ana Paula

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Michael Cusumano.

• Sloan School of Management.
• Technology and Policy Program.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117958

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/117958