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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. ...
Micro-Fulfillment Feasibility for Metro Trade Area Transformation
(2021-06-16)
The world’s largest coffee chain is looking to cater to different patterns of customer demand especially in metro areas that are densely packed with their stores. With more of the demand becoming mobile and customers ...
Tradeoffs in Strategic Capacity Planning under Demand Uncertainty
(2021-06-16)
Companies are often faced with the need to make supply chain investment decisions to support new product introductions while there is still significant uncertainty in the demand expectations. This situation forces tradeoffs ...
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 ...
Incorporating Equity into Vaccine Access
(2023-09-08)
COVID-19 vaccine access inequity was a major challenge during the pandemic. This inequity was present between countries and regions and within cities. We developed a novel approach to measure and improve vaccine access ...
Development and Evaluation of Market - Based Routing Guide Strategy
(2023-09-08)
The truckload market in the United States is large, fragmented, and highly competitive. Shippers utilize routing guides to manage and tender shipments to carriers. This research examines how the macro market characteristics ...