Browsing SCALE Research Reports by Title
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Measuring the capacity of a port system : a case study on a Southeast Asian port
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)As economies develop and trade routes change, investment in port infrastructure is essential to maintain the necessary capacity for an efficiently functioning port system and to meet expected demand for all types of cargo. ... -
Measuring the value of a responsive supply network
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)LargeCo, a large multinational consumer goods manufacturing and distribution company, has been pursuing initiatives to improve the responsiveness of its supply network. The impact of these initiatives on the supply network ... -
Meeting the RFID mandate : options for Wal-Mart suppliers and evaluation methodology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Various retailers like Wal-Mart, Target, and Albertsons have announced their mandates asking their top suppliers to become RFID enabled beginning 2005. Meeting the mandate has become a sort of cost of doing business with ... -
Merging qualitative and quantitative criteria for freight investment using scenario planning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Freight transportation is vital to the economy of the United States. The total volume of freight moving inside the nation is expected to continue growing, while the U.S. transportation system is aging and becoming more ... -
A method for analyzing the delivery frequency from a distribution center to a retail grocery store
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)Currently, no adequate method exists for determining how frequently a retail store in a supermarket chain should receive deliveries from its distribution center. Existing methods neglect many crucial constraints, such as ... -
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 ... -
Modeling hydrogen fuel distribution infrastructure
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This thesis' fundamental research question is to evaluate the structure of the hydrogen production, distribution, and dispensing infrastructure under various scenarios and to discover if any trends become apparent after ... -
Modeling order guidelines to improve truckload utilization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Freight vehicle capacity, whether it be road, ocean or air transport, is highly underutilized. This under-utilization presents an opportunity for companies to reduce their vehicular traffic and reduce their carbon footprint ... -
Modeling supply chain benefits of efficient assortment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The recent developments in retail industry created a challenging environment for companies in the sector and their trade partners. Retailers' focus on recovering their financial results through eliminating unproductive ... -
Modeling the impact of complexity on transportation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This thesis aimed to understand the drivers of total transportation costs during supply chain complexity events, in particular new product launches, in a fast moving consumer goods company in the United States. The research ... -
Modeling the tradeoff between inventory and capacity to optimize return on assets in production scheduling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)In the agrochemical industry, companies are challenged with an extreme seasonality in demand driven by the crops' growing cycles. Therefore, balancing supply with such fluctuating demand has been a struggle for most companies ... -
Multi-echelon inventory management for a fresh produce retail supply chain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Perishability presents a challenging problem in inventory management for the fresh produce industry since it can lead to higher inventory costs and lower service levels. If a supply chain has multiple echelons, that further ... -
Multi-echelon inventory optimization for an oil services company
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)In the oilfield services industry, healthy margins and the criticality of product availability have often over shadowed the need for operational efficiency. Although those factors have not changed, the emergence of stronger ... -
Multi-echelon inventory optimization for fresh produce
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)For fresh produce, the product freshness is a key value to end consumers. Retailers try to maximize product freshness at retail stores while maintaining high product availability. Fresh produce that is close to the end of ... -
Multi-echelon multi-product inventory strategy in a steel company
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)This thesis examines a distribution multi-echelon production-inventory system subject to stochastic demand in the steel industry. The sponsor company, Ternium (a South American steel producer), needs to provide short service ... -
A multi-echelon supply chain model for strategic inventory assessment through the deployment of kanbans
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)As global competition in the manufacturing space grows, so do corporations' needs for sophisticated and optimized management systems to enable continuous flows of information and materials across the many tiers within their ... -
Network design and safety stock placement for a multi-echelon supply chain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)With the increasing complexities in supply chains and increasing global trade, integrated supply chain network design is utilized by the firms in order to reduce the overall cost while meeting the customer demand with ... -
New product forecasting in volatile markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Forecasting demand for limited-life cycle products is essentially projecting an arc trend of demand growth and decline over a relatively short time horizon. When planning for a new limited-life product, many marketing and ...