FOSC keynote: Companies should embrace optionality to manage uncertainty

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Providing multiple options on how best to manage freight may be the optimal way for supply chain stakeholders to utilize the many streams of data that come their way, according to Michael Schrage, a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management.

In a keynote address at FreightWaves’ Future of the Supply Chain summit in Northwest Arkansas Tuesday, Schrage, a fellow at Sloan’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, outlined reasons why optionality should be...

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4 keynote speakers on tap for The Future of Supply Chain

FreightWaves has announced two more keynote speakers for the upcoming The Future of Supply Chain event: Billy Beane, executive vice president of baseball operations for the Oakland A’s, and Michael Schrage, research fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Beane and Schrage join previously announced keynote speakers Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Jonathan Hoffman, former spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Defense.

The Future of Supply Chain will take place May 9-10 at the Rogers...

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