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Financial supply chain dynamics : operational risk management and RFID technologies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
The banking industry is consolidating to streamline its operations through mergers and acquisitions, and is adopting new technologies to develop innovative products and services, thereby achieving both economies of scale ...
Analysis of global channel costs for the pharmaceutical industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
The pharmaceutical industry creates products which often have more than one supply chain channel, defined as a route through the supply chain network from sourcing to the end market. Each channel's specific cost characteristics ...
An analysis of long-term agreements with suppliers in Lockheed Martin's commercial satellite systems division
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Lockheed Martin designs and builds commercial satellites to customers' specifications. The customers, such as telecommunications companies and weather forecasters, are very price sensitive and, usually, award contracts to ...
Commoditization of the third party logistics industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Third party logistics companies in the US emerged in the 1980s and have been providing valuable service for companies willing to outsource logistics. Since then the industry has been growing substantially both in terms ...
Logistics barriers for multinational corporations doing business in China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
With rapid economic growth, China attracts many multinational corporations (MNCs) as a manufacturing center with both its cheap labor cost and a huge consumer market. While doing business in China, most MNCs have faced ...
Lucent SCN : leveraging the fully integrated supply chain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
(cont.) in the success of Lucent's turnaround and, from the patterns that emerge, a basis for a new holistic framework for designing and leveraging an integrated supply chain is offered. This framework suggests that attaining ...