Browsing Supply Chain Management Capstone Projects by Issue Date
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Online Grocery & Omnichannel Strategy: Predicting Home Delivery Adoption
(2018)The traditional way to reach customers in e-commerce is home delivery. Retailers have expanded fulfillment options to include picking up from a store, locker, 3rd-party collection point, and more. This study focuses on two ... -
Improving the Survival Rate of Small Firms in Latin America: A case study in Aguascalientes, Mexico
(2018)Micro and small firms represent the largest percentage of the businesses operating in Latin America having a high employability contribution and a high potential Gross Domestic Product (GDP) impact on the region. However, ... -
Improving the process of container shipping using blockchain
(2018)Container shipping is one of the most important aspects of the global supply chain. Currently, approximately 60% of all seaborne trade is moved through containers. However, despite the growth in trade, there has been little ... -
A Study of Shipper Performance in the Less-Than-Truckload Market
(2018)When it comes to LTL shipping, it can be tough for shippers to get the performance that they expect due to the makeup of LTL networks. On-time performance is dependent on many more factors than in full truckload shipping. ... -
The hidden impact of micro retailers’ survival rate on the logistics cost of consumer packaged goods companies
(2018)Millions of mom-and-pop stores represent 40-70% of the market share of Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies. Many of these stores are located in megacities in developing countries, cities over 10 million people, where ... -
Driving Savings via Inbound Logistics Network Design
(2018)A CPG company is examining its end-to-end supply chain to find opportunities to optimize both cost and visibility. One minimally tapped source of these opportunities is the inbound supply network. This report studies three ... -
Combinatorial Reverse Auctions in Construction Procurement
(2018)Construction procurement often involves negotiations between many parties over multitudes of components. The process of allocating contracts to suppliers is generally a complex process involving multiple decision makers ... -
Route Clustering in Transportation with Geospatial Analysis and Machine Learning to Reduce CO2 Emissions
(2018)The transportation sector is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions; hence, it is desirable to lower carbon emissions from this sector, especially with the expected growth in transportation needs from ... -
Apeel Sciences: Lot Traceability of a Breakthrough in Food Science Technology
(2018)Apeel Sciences has made it their mission to help eliminate food waste. To do so, they are introducing their exciting new product, EdipeelTM, to market. Edipeel is an edible, natural, flavorless coating that, when applied ... -
Analyzing Upstream Impact on Downstream Shelf-Availability
(2018)On-shelf availability (OSA) is key in the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry. In this project, out of stock (OOS) patterns are identified, grouped, and analyzed in order to gain meaningful insights to improve OSA. The ... -
Learning from Route Plan Deviation in Last-Mile Delivery
(2018)This capstone project studies route deviations in the last-mile deliveries of a large soft drink company. Last-mile delivery is a critical problem due to its substantial economic impact on operational cost, and deviations ... -
Operating Strategies for a Segmented Supply Chain
(2018)An operations strategy is a method or plan of action that corporations employ to reach their goals. A good strategy enables a company to operate efficiently and use its resources effectively. The purpose of this capstone ... -
Planning for Peak Demand in Reverse Logistics
(2018)The project sponsor is a reverse logistics company that provides Returnable Transport Items (RTIs) to large manufacturing companies, distributors and retailers. Its business model is characterized by a unique closed-loop ... -
Network Design for Mid-day Meal Program
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)The Mid-day Meal program is an initiative taken by the Government of India to improve the nutritional status of school-age children nationwide. It involves many agencies and NGOs. Akshaya Patra is the most popular and ... -
Pattern Recognition in Consumer Packaged Goods Data
(Massachusetts Institute of Techology, 2018)The speed at which a manufacturing company analyzes big data and reacts to the market trends can be key to its success. In consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, a delay in analyzing the huge amounts of data produced ... -
Predicting Carrier Load Cancellation
(2018)Truckload cancellations by carriers are causing disruptions in the trucking industry operations. By extrapolating the findings from the 3PL’s data studied in this research to the whole trucking industry, it is estimated ... -
LNG Supply Chain Resilience
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)The demand for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) has continued to grow globally over the past decade with increasing numbers of disruptions and plant outages. Considering these dynamics, oil and gas companies will have to prepare ... -
Dynamic Customer Service Levels: Evolving Safety Stock Requirements for Changing Business Needs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Retail companies struggle to maintain the appropriate levels of inventory on promotional and seasonal items due to management pressure to never be out of stock. Dynamically changing desired service levels during promotions ... -
Optimizing Product Group Segmentation
(2018)Piece picking is an integral operation in distribution centres (DCs). The partner company has it as the largest part cost item of DC operations. The current product slotting and assignment planning needs to be improved to ... -
3D Printing’s Impact on the Metalworking Industry
(2018)This project qualitatively estimates the potential impact of 3D printing on the United States metalworking industry. The adoption rate of 3D printing has been increasing in the last few years. On one side are businesses ...
