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Designing Inventory Management Strategy for a Fill Rate of 98%
(2022-06-07)
Order fill rate is a critical performance metric in retail supply chain operations. Retailers use it to ensure deliveries received from their suppliers are in full quantities as per order. The retailers levy fines on ...
Integrating Safety Stock Policies into Roche’s S&OP Process
(2022-06-08)
Globalization, demand uncertainty, and shorter life cycles have increased the risks in pharmaceutical supply chains. To mitigate these risks, firms can carry safety stock. Classic theory on stochastic safety stock strategies ...
Forecasting Model for Sporadic Distributor-Based Market
(2019)
With the evolution of technology, more data became available to observe consumer purchase patterns. Traditional forecast methods used to rely on only shipment history. Nonetheless, due to the accessibility of consumer ...
Should Shippers Be Afraid of Ghost Freight? An Empirical Analysis of a Customer Portfolio from TMC, a Div. of C.H. Robinson
(2021-06-16)
Over the past several years, there has been severe market volatility in the truckload industry leading to cost increases and efficiency losses for shippers and carriers. Previous research has investigated the many factors ...
Inventory Management for Slow Moving and High Volatility Items
(2021-06-16)
Inventory management is an essential operation in the supply chain, owing to its strategic importance in supporting item availability and business continuity. The demand for slow-moving items is fundamentally ambiguous ...
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 ...
MIT Campus PPE Demand Planning
(2021-06-16)
The COVID-19 pandemic created a global shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) and cleaning supplies. This environment motivated the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to reconsider its decentralized ...