Browsing Supply Chain Management by Subject "Transportation"
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Alternate Pricing Model for Transportation Contracts
(2019)Transportation spend is an increasingly relevant topic of concern for all manufacturing companies. Along with the money spent on transporting goods, service betterment has become an everyday expectation. In a tight market, ... -
Application of Linear Models, Random Forest, and Gradient Boosting Methods to Identify Key Factors and Predict Truck Dwell Time for a Global 3PL Company
(2020-07-24)Driver dwell time is an important challenge the U.S trucking industry faces. High, unplanned dwell times are costly to all stakeholders in the industry as they result in detention costs, declining performance and decreased ... -
Assessing Feasibility of the Delivery Drone
(2019)Service level growth is hindered by declining activity from customers needing access to physical assets stored by the sponsor company. The delivery drone presents a viable option to support the initiative of maintaining ... -
Comparative Evaluation of Drone Delivery Systems in Last-Mile Delivery
(2019)With the latest technological advancement, the use of drones has emerged as an innovative and viable business solution for last-mile distribution. An efficient drone delivery system has to address the classic vehicle routing ... -
Decoupled Capacity with Powerloop
(2019)With the current imbalance of supply and demand of truck drivers in the U.S., improving driver utilization is critical to secure reliable freight transportation. The largest source of downtime for carriers is the time spent ... -
Exploring Carbon Offsets for Freight Transportation Decarbonization
(2020-07-29)Carbon offsets present a mechanism to leverage corporate sustainability commitments to fund fleet renewal programs, decommissioning aging trucks and replacing them with greener vehicles. This study evaluates the feasibility ... -
Going Awry: Understanding Transportation Budget Failures
(2020-07-21)The US truckload transportation industry goes through phases of over and under supply of capacity, causing a dramatic impact on freight rates and transportation budgets. External factors like macroeconomic conditions, ... -
Impact of Freight Consolidation on Logistics Cost and Emissions
(2019)The transportation sector is one of the two principal contributors to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and its contributions are expected to double by 2050. Growing consumer demand for home deliveries with high service levels ... -
The Impact of Product Portfolio Complexity on Fleet Size
(2019)The assortment of products that a company offers is one aspect that affects the complexity of their supply chain: the greater number of products, the greater the complexity. This project aims to measure how reducing the ... -
The Impact of Special Events on the Freight Spot Market
(2019)The United States freight spot market moves in patterns consistent with general economic fluctuations within the broader macro-economy. While the spot market does follow general trends, there is an underlying belief that ... -
Incentivizing No-Rush Delivery in Omnichannel Retail
(2019)E-commerce sales have grown exponentially since the introduction of the smart phone in 2007 and the trend is expected to continue. As retailers enter e-commerce, the pressure to provide more and faster delivery options ... -
Increasing Fleet Utilization Through a Heuristic to Determine Optimal Backhaul Routes
(2019)As transportation costs rise, companies need to become more efficient to remain profitable. One way to increase efficiency in transportation is to increase fleet utilization through the addition of backhaul routes. Most ... -
Last-Mile Distribution Network Optimization in Emerging Markets: A Case Study in São Paulo, Brazil
(2019)As more of the world’s population moves to cities, urban logistics becomes increasingly important to a company’s distribution operations. Urban distribution network studies must address the same strategic questions as ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
Root Cause Analysis and Impact of Unplanned Procurement on Truckload Transportation Costs
(2019)The tender rejection rate by primary carriers for the TMC division of CH Robinson nearly doubled from 2015-16 to 2017-18. An increase in tender rejection rates directly results in an increase in transportation costs for ... -
Simulation Test Bed for Drone-Supported Logistics Systems
(2019)Same-day delivery is an increasingly relevant logistics service because of a continued boom in e- commerce. As customer orders are submitted dynamically during the day, companies need to dispatch vehicles from distribution ... -
Supply Chain Coopetition: A Simulation Model to Explore Competitive Advantages in Logistics
(2020-07-24)Supply chains continuously face pressure to increase efficiency and differentiation to support business continuity. A not yet fully explored way to face this challenge is coopetition, where two competitor companies decide ... -
Traditional routing guide performance and segmentation to improve compliance with contracted budget
(2020-07-21)A strong seller’s market in 2017 and 2018 led to dramatically increased costs in transportation due to demand surpassing supply, government regulations, and a shortage of truck drivers. As a result, the carrier rejection ...
