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Allocation of engineering resources to global sites based on coordination cost and project structure (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Because of the increasingly globalized world we live in, companies today are very interested in going overseas to develop and utilize global engineering resources. By doing so, they hope to take advantage of new global ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Amgen Inc. currently manufactures, formulates and fills substantially all of their global drug product units in a single primary facility ("Site 1A"). Concerned about the inherent risks posed by the geographic concentration ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)While large scale diffusion of alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) is widely anticipated, the mechanisms that determine their success or failure are ill understood. Analysis of an AFV transition model developed at MIT has ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)The object of the thesis is to develop a simple approach or heuristic for managing various types of uncertainty within a chemical production/inventory system. Later the company can use it to minimize the total cost at any ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)The focus of this research is creating a framework to accurately assess the benefits of hub capability in an international distribution network for fast moving consumer packaged goods. The traditional inventory centralization ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)In support of the Supply Chain 2020 Project at MIT, this thesis identifies current best practices in retail industry supply chains, with a specific focus on mass merchandising and Internet retailing. Using a survey of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Creation of a long-term strategic transportation plan is critical for companies in order to make informed decisions about fleet capacity, number of drivers needed, fleet allocation to domiciles, etc. However, the inherent ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)While solar fuel systems offer tremendous potential to address global clean energy needs, most existing analyses have focused on the feasibility of large centralized systems and applications. Not much research exists on ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Since the late 1990s, network airlines worldwide have being enrolling in one of the three current Global Airline Alliances (GALs), oneworld, Star Alliance and SkyTeam. By 2011, airlines belonging to the three GALs transported ...
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(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 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)This thesis discusses a network design problem based on a case study with a footwear company, which intends to minimize total supply chain costs by establishing a distribution network which bypasses its primary distribution ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Today, our society is surrounded by information system, computers, and software. It is no exaggeration to say that our daily life depends on software and its function. Accordingly, the business of software has made miraculous ...
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(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 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)In recent years offering and maturity in Cloud Computing space has gained significant momentum. CIOs are looking at Cloud seriously because of bottom line savings and scalability advantages. According to Gartner's survey ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)The application of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has been studied for decades, and many field trials have been executed to evaluate the usability of RFID systems, the business case of RFID applications and so forth. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)In any process, complexity has the potential to decrease processing rates of the operation. Mass production has driven up operator efficiency by removing complexity to create a standardized and simplified process. However, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This thesis provides a method for hi-tech companies to evaluate reverse logistic software and services. To clarify what is reverse logistics, the definition and features of reverse logistics are first introduced. The reasons ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This thesis presents and analyzes the various practices in the functional area of Sourcing and Procurement. The 21 firms that are studied operate in one of the following industries: Aerospace, Apparel/ Footwear, Automotive, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)New or innovative products are growing in importance both in numbers and revenues, putting an extra stress on most current supply chains - defined conceptually as a buyer with a network of suppliers - as those were originally ...
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