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Joint Replenishment and Base Stock Model for the U.S. Beer Industry
(2019)
The United States beer industry operates, by law, under a three-tier distribution network. MillerCoors[SAC1] has made the strategic decision to open distribution centers across the United States to handle complexity while ...
Investigation of potential added value of DDMRP in planning under uncertainty at finite capacity
(2019)
The Demand Driven Material Requirement Planning (DDMRP) was introduced in 2011 to improve the performance of supply chain planning. The Demand Driven Institute (DDI) reports that DDMRP reduces the inventory levels by 31% ...
Raw Material Minimum Order Quantity Optimization
(2019)
The sponsoring company, wants to review their raw material ordering policy and production plan for one of their product segments. This product faces a high degree of volatility in demand and the company currently orders ...
Spare Parts Predictive Analytics for Telecommunications Company
(2022-06-09)
Spare parts management is the backbone of asset intensive industries such as telecommunications companies, which operate in a highly competitive environment. Network reliability is a strategic goal as it ensures high ...
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, ...
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 ...
Replenishment Policies for Retail Pharmacies in Emerging Markets
(2019)
Pharmaceuticals account for over hundreds of billions of dollars of the global annual healthcare expenditure. Inventory management is essential for the financial health of the retail pharmaceutical industry. The retail ...
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. ...
Building Sustainable Supply Chains in the Era of e-Commerce
(2020-07-24)
Consumer preferences are driving changes within the retail space. E-Commerce is growing rapidly and
there are increased pressures on companies to be environmentally friendly, yet still cost-competitive.
Therefore, it is ...
Less is More: Simplifying Inventory Tactics
(2022-06-10)
Millions of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) fail every year in the United States, and in many instances the root cause of failure is more often due to operational inefficiencies than external factors. One way ...