Georgia-Pacific Opens Center to Drive Supply Chain Innovation

Georgia‐Pacific announced that it will bring together leading supply chain companies to develop solutions within its new Point A Center for Supply Chain Innovation.

Opening this June in an initial 15,000‐square‐foot space at Atlanta’s TechSquare Labs, Georgia‐Pacific’s Point A Center for Supply Chain Innovation will serve as a collaborative space for businesses ranging from multi‐national corporations to emerging startups and academic institutions.

Georgia‐Pacific is investing between $5 million and $7 million in the overall center and has begun actively recruiting members. Among the first member organizations to offer their unique capabilities and expertise include Chick‐fil‐A, Delta Air Lines, Genuine Parts Company, Grainger, Siemens, as well as Georgia‐Pacific’s parent company Koch Industries.

Point A’s members will explore use cases for applying Industry 4.0 innovations, including robotics, artificial intelligence, blockchain, machine learning and autonomous vehicles, among others, to tackle some of the supply chain’s most pressing challenges, including retail models, network efficiency and data visibility.