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Transportation resource scheduling in food retail industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The objective of this thesis is to find an appropriate analytical method for scheduling the daily driver tasks in the grocery industry. The goal is to maximize driver utilization. A "Bin-packing" approach is employed to ...
Third party logistics : an analysis of the feasibility and contexts of strategic relationships
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
An important topic in the Third Party Logistics (3PL) industry is the extent to which customers view 3PL services as pure-commodities to be re-bid. The trend towards commoditization has been one of the causes for current ...
Mitigating container security risk using real-time monitoring with active Radio Frequency Identification and sensors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
The global village in which we live enables increased trade and commerce across regions but also brings a complicated new set of challenges such as terrorist activity, human and drug smuggling and theft in foreign or ...
VMI vs. order based fulfillment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
In this thesis, two inventory fulfillment methods are compared by evaluating the vendor managed inventory (VMI) fulfillment against the current order based fulfillment. Several forms of adaptation to VMI are described. The ...
The impact and dynamics of centralization in supply chain decision-making
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Companies with a corporate supply chain department and multiple business units use one of two methods for their supply chain decision-making: centralized decision-making where supply chain decisions are made at the corporate ...
Determination of drivers of stock-out performance of retail stores using data mining techniques
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This research applies data mining techniques to give a picture of the interaction of performance variables such as between stock-outs and store attributes, and stock-outs and other variables including store sales, income ...
Analyzing the level of service and cost trade-offs in cold chain transportation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
This thesis discusses the tradeoff between transportation cost and the level of service in cold chain transportation. Its purpose is to find the relationship between transportation cost and the level of service in cold ...
Customer focused collaborative demand planning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Many firms worldwide have adopted the process of Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process where internal departments within a firm collaborate with each other to generate a demand forecast. In a collaborative demand ...
Green automotive supply chain for an emerging market
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) within the automotive industry is largely based on combining lean manufacturing with mandated supplier adoption of ISO 14001-compliant Environmental Management Systems (EMS). This ...
Vendor managed inventory vs. order based fulfillment in a specialty chemical company
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
In this thesis, an analysis of the existing order based fulfillment process for one product line of a specialty chemicals manufacturer is made and the potential benefits from the implementation of a vendor managed inventory ...