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Optimization of Cost and Carbon Emissions in a Multi-Echelon Distribution Network
(2023-09-08)Over the past decade, the oilfield services industry has experienced two major trends: the drive to reduce costs and the push for sustainability. In this context, our sponsor company seeks to optimize the distribution of ... -
Optimizing Fleet Utilization by Adjusting Customer Delivery Appointment Times
(2020-07-24)The supply of trucks and drivers is struggling to keep up with the increasing and volatile demand for ground transportation. As a result, for companies like Niagara Bottling LLC., supply chain managers are pressured to ... -
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 ... -
Optimizing Returnable Transport Item Repositioning in a Global Supply Chain
(2022-06-10)The automotive industry is an exemplary leader in the use of returnable cases for the transportation of inbound freight. Their use reduces the need of expensive and expendable packing and contributes to lower greenhouse ... -
Optimizing Satellite Locations for a Multi-Echelon Last Mile Distribution Network to utilize Alternative Delivery Vehicles for Last Mile Delivery
(2020-08-06)The growing urban population over the past few years has created many challenges for last mile distribution, such as traffic congestion, pollution, and lack of parking space availability. With the advent of e-commerce ... -
Optimizing the Logistics Network for Pipeline Inspection
(2021-06-16)The sponsor company for this capstone has a complex logistics network due to the fact they use a service model for their products. Their products use advanced technology to service water, wastewater, oil, and gas pipelines ... -
Overcoming the Driver Shortage by Addressing Driver Detention
(2022-06-10)In the United States, long-haul trucking is the main mode of transportation of goods. The trucking industry has been facing a shortage of drivers in the past few years and it is only increasing every year. Previous studies ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Portfolio Modeling and Forecasting of Single-Use Rare Disease Treatments
(2021-06-16)Biopharmaceutical companies are increasingly exploring cutting-edge novel gene therapies (GTs) in an effort to cure rare diseases. This capstone develops and tests a practical forecasting framework for sharing capacity ... -
Potential Benefits of Drones for Vaccine Last-Mile Delivery in Nepal
(2021-06-09)Nepal’s immunization coverage hovers around 78%, and 59 out of 77 districts have not yet been fully immunized. The objective of this study is to review the vaccine last-mile distribution to find a cost-efficient solution ... -
Potential Benefits of Drones for Vaccine Last-Mile Delivery in Nepal
(2021-06-16)Nepal’s immunization coverage hovers around 78%, and 59 out of 77 districts have not yet been fully immunized. The objective of this study is to review the vaccine last-mile distribution to find a cost-efficient solution ... -
Power Influence in Horizontal Collaboration Relationships
(2021-06-16)Supply chain horizontal collaboration has captured the attention of many researchers and practitioners. Horizontal collaboration offers multiple benefits in creating competitive advantages for companies and leveraging their ... -
Predicting and Planning for the Future: North American Truckload Transportation
(2020-07-21)The trucking industry is crucial to the United States economy. An overwhelming majority of goods transported across the US are moved in trucks. For most companies, truck transportation is a prominent component that impacts ... -
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 ... -
Predicting Food Bank Demand: A Socioeconomic Analysis and Forecasting Model Investigation
(2023-09-08)Food insecurity is a problem that affects people in every county within the United States. To combat this issue, many organizations across the country provide charitable food assistance to their communities. The demand for ... -
Predicting Shipping Time with Machine Learning
(2019)With the globalization of trade, transit time reliability has become a critical point in the shipping industry as irregularities will lead to more delays further down the supply chain. Our sponsoring company, A.P. Møller ... -
A Predictive Model for Transpacific Eastbound Ocean Freight Pricing
(2020-08-06)The containerized ocean freight market has been very volatile due to overcapacity and several disruptive changes. As a global ocean freight forwarder, C.H. Robinson hopes to improve the predictability of the spot ocean ... -
Procurement Control Tower: Proof of Concept through Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
(2023-09-08)An organization’s procurement process is pivotal for its success in a competitive market. The increased uncertainty and complexity of post-pandemic supply chains have made procurement a more valuable focus point among ... -
Profit-Driven Network Redesign Through Value-Creation Services
(2023-09-08)Design of supply chain networks is a key strategic decision in supply chain management. Our capstone sponsor Armada is a supply chain service provider to restaurant chains across the United States. The company is envisioning ...
