Baseball & Statistics in the Summer of 1982

It was the summer of 1982.  And I was hooked into baseball and statistics. I was a foreign student from Manila, the Philippines, on my third year into studying for a bachelor’s degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering (IE for short) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) I started listening to and watching games ofContinue reading “Baseball & Statistics in the Summer of 1982”

Supply Chains Must Have These Five (5) Traits

What’s all the fuss about supply chains? An Evergreen container ship, the Ever Given, got stuck at the Suez Canal in late March 2021.  The solution was simple:  dig out the sand it’s grounded on and tow the ship to a nearby lake.  Unfortunately, because it’s a big heavy ship and the Suez Canal isContinue reading “Supply Chains Must Have These Five (5) Traits”