dumay 4 months | flag | on: Forex default values

If the date of your forex is in the future, by default forex() returns the rate of lastForex().
If the currency is unknown, by default forex() returns the initial price.

dumay 4 months | flag | on: List of Named Colors
dumay 10 months | flag | on: Prefer "scan" to "sort"

Automatic hints from Envision recommends you to use "scan" rather than "sort" with this function.

Very interesting article! I always like to recall that risk is defined by (probability of occurrence) x (impact on the business). And human tend to underestimate high impact-low probability events and overestimate high probability-low impact events.

As written in the article, you have to choose between two models when developing a startup : either grow at all costs, and optimize later (like Uber), or keep the notion of cost and frugality as an essential part of every initiative. Amazon is doing that in its warehouses : Grow, but make sure to optimize for efficiency.

As it was suggested in https://news.lokad.com/posts/167/live-virtual-tours-of-amazon-fulfilment-centres, there is also the visit of Amazon warehouses in different countries

I tried visiting their American facilities, it was great!

dumay Sep 02, 2022 | flag | on: Live virtual tours of Amazon Fulfilment centres

I had the chance to do a guided tour yesterday evening, for their American facilities. It was great! I was surprised to be (almost) the only one asking questions. They took the time to answer all of them, not very extensively I acknowledge but the effort was there. I would love to visit their French warehouses now.

dumay Aug 25, 2022 | flag | on: The beer game

I had the chance to play it at university (it was very chaotic!). It was a session on "bullwhip effect".

dumay Aug 24, 2022 | flag | on: Supply Chain Rhapsody [video] (2019)

With all the opaque vocabulary you're dreaming of!
Sometimes I think of my professors always repeating "If you can explain it to your little siblings and answer all their questions then you understood it!" Who could do that with all the vocabulary used in the video?

The TSP is definitely a problem we encounter (almost) every day... With countless variants!

According to this paper https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337198743_A_comparative_analysis_of_the_travelling_salesman_problem_Exact_and_machine_learning_techniques, Google's tool seems pretty robust! I'd really like to give it a try when I need it.