SWARM featured as Top 10 Cognitive Solution by CIOReview

Every Wednesday morning, the planners at a food supply chain company dreaded the mass of spreadsheets, emails, and post-it notes awaiting them in the office. For the next few hours, all five members of the team would huddle together to figure out the next week’s purchases and the various transportation options to match a constrained supply to the inventory demands at their U.S. distribution centers, for more than thirty separate, perishable products. With trillions of possible combinations and options, it seemed like they needed superpowers to figure out the best result and simplify the complicated process they were handling. Yet this was the task they faced every week, and while a solution was always found, there was that constant feeling that "something more could have been done." Perhaps with a few more hours, they could have discovered a better outcome…read more