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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Development and Application of an Immunization Network Design Optimization Model for UNICEF
(2020-07-24)
Over the past five years, immunization coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa has stagnated at 72%.
Immunization supply chains are expensive and complicated, and creating a model that helps
optimize these supply chains is of ...
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 ...
Data Aggregation for Data Analytics in Medical Device Supply Chains
(2020-07-30)
Product visibility in the medical device supply chain is a challenge for suppliers, distributors, and hospitals. The lack of visibility makes managing inventory complex, and it is made more difficult when businesses have ...
Supply Chain Simulation for Production Strategy Evaluation
(2021-06-28)
The Consumer Product Goods (CPG) industry such as the bottled water business is subject to bottlenecks, due in part to both product characteristics, stochastic nature of the demand of products, and customer lead time ...
DDMRP Feasibility Assessment in the Pharmaceutical Industry
(2022-06-07)
DDMRP, a supply chain methodology introduced in 2011, aligns planning activities around incoming demand signals without the use of forecasts to predict future demand. The Demand Driven Institute (DDI) claims that DDMRP can ...