http://www.dataminingblog.com/data-mining-for-the-car-industry/ Data mining crossroads - research, applications, news, list of blogs and customized search engine about data mining. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:14:55 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.dataminingblog.com/data-mining-for-the-car-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-505 James Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:16:00 +0000 http://www.dataminingblog.com/data-mining-for-the-car-industry#comment-505 Well it seems to me that Ford would get more value out of this work if it embedded the resulting insight into its operational systems. Rather than having someone tell them who are the "bad" suppliers, why not embed a model that scores suppliers in the systems that order parts so that they can use that information as part of deciding which vendor to use? With 1,6000 vendors and (I am sure) many thousands of orders, this would surely pay off.<br/>JT<br/><a HREF="http://www.edmblog.com" REL="nofollow">www.edmblog.com</a> Well it seems to me that Ford would get more value out of this work if it embedded the resulting insight into its operational systems. Rather than having someone tell them who are the “bad” suppliers, why not embed a model that scores suppliers in the systems that order parts so that they can use that information as part of deciding which vendor to use? With 1,6000 vendors and (I am sure) many thousands of orders, this would surely pay off.
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