Princeton Optimization

Optimizing Manufacturing Policies for COVID-19 and Future Pandemics

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve under great levels of uncertainty, manufacturing executives are urgently formulating policies to keep their facilities operating while protecting workers from infection. These policies include macro issues, such as which workers are essential, down to micro policies such as how to best manage shared areas like hallways, break rooms and […]

2020 Survey Results: Digital Disruption in Freight Transportation and Logistics

Princeton Consultants recently conducted its annual survey, begun in 2016, of transportation executives about their views of disruptive technologies and the impact on business areas. CEO Steve Sashihara summarized the results on a conference call with Stifel Managing Director of Research David Ross. Following is a lightly edited excerpt. Half of the respondents are executives […]

Coronavirus and Supply Chain Failures: Techniques to Mitigate the Bullwhip Effect

On a March 27 conference call with Stifel Capital Markets and transportation executives nationwide, Steve summarized the results of the annual Princeton Consultants survey about tech disruption in freight transportation and logistics. This Freightwaves article summarized the survey and the findings. In the second half of the call (lightly edited excerpts below), Steve explained that in […]