Dear Colleagues,
The next practice seminar hosted by the M&SOM Journal's Practice Platform will cover the topic: Using Optimization and LLMs to Enhance Cloud Supply Chain Operations. Please join us on December 2, 2024, from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM (EST) to learn about the challenges of maintaining cost-effective operations at Microsoft's cloud business, including managing supply chain dependencies and resource allocation. Refer to the details below for more information and the link to join.
Zoom link: here
Abstract
The cloud computing industry amounts to hundreds of billions of dollars in market size. In this talk, we give an overview of the challenges in sustaining cost-effective operations for Microsoft's cloud business, ranging from handling supply chain dependencies to multi-dimensional resource management under demand uncertainty. We describe our optimization solution to the server fulfillment problem, which deals with reliably shipping servers from warehouses to datacenters. We then highlight how we have been using large language models (LLMs) to explain the outcomes of that solver to supply chain planners and improve productivity. We conclude by describing future research directions in cloud operations management, and, more broadly, in the intersection of AI and optimization as part of the OptiGuide project.
Presenters (all from Microsoft): Beibin Li, Konstantina Mellou, Jeevan Pathuri, Ishai Menache.
Please click here for additional details including biography of the different speakers.
We will post the seminar recording through the INFORMS YouTube Channel, so colleagues will be able to view it later at their convenience if they cannot make it live. The past seminars offered in this series can be found here.
For any questions, please feel free to contact any of us.
Best regards,
The OM Practice Platform Editors:
Pavithra Harsha <pharsha@us.ibm.com>, Jérémie Gallien <jgallien@london.edu>, Ananth Raman <araman@hbs.edu>,
and the M&SOM Journal EIC Georgia Perakis <georgiap@mit.edu>
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Pavithra Harsha
Principal Research Scientist
IBM Research
Yorktown Heights NY
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