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Demand Forecasting for Ebola Responses
(2019)
The accelerating global trends of urbanization, interconnectivity, and population mobility are creating the conditions to increase the frequency, severity, and velocity of future outbreaks of high threat pathogens. ...
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 ...
Calculating Financial Business Risk to Identify Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
(2023-09-08)
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vulnerabilities of supply chain systems, and companies must take Supply Chain Risk Management seriously to build resilience against future unknown disruptions. However, measuring ...
Empty Miles Reduction in the Downstream Network for a Consumer Goods Manufacturer
(2023-09-08)
Logistics and transportation companies face a significant challenge with empty miles, which results in costs without generating revenue. To tackle this issue, we explored two potential strategies: one involves generating ...
Unraveling the Relation between Trucking Modes: A Correlation Analysis between Less Than Truckload Metrics and Truckload Market Tension
(2023-09-08)
In 2021, The United States trucking industry generated over $400 billion in revenues. As the economy cycles through waves of contractions and expansions, the transportation industry moves through cycles of slack and tension. ...
Transforming Warehouses Towards a Sustainable Future
(2023-09-08)
Climate change is a global problem, and CO2 emissions are the primary cause of rising temperatures. Many companies, including our capstone sponsor Maersk, have committed to reaching net zero emissions by setting decarbonization ...
The Green Route: An Analysis of Mode Change as a Strategy for Carbon Emission Reduction
(2023-09-08)
Having recognized the growing need for decarbonizing the maritime transport industry, the sponsor company is assessing the economic feasibility of implementing Green Intermodal Corridors. For a route to be considered a ...
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 ...
End-of-Life Inventory Optimization during Runout Events for a Manufacturing Automotive Company
(2023-09-08)
Effective and efficient inventory management is today more crucial than ever. Three factors drive its importance: (i) the ever-increasing complexity of bills of materials, causing firms to dedicate a large part of their ...
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 ...