Tactical Shipping and Scheduling at Polaroid with Dual Lead-Times
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Author(s)
Threatte, Kermit
Graves, Stephen C.
Date Issued
January 2002
Series/Report no.
Innovation in Manufacturing Systems and Technology (IMST);
Abstract
We report on a project with Polaroid Corporation in which we developed a supply chain model to provide decision support for planning production and transportation. Production occurs in Asia to serve world-wide demand. Production planners must determine both the production quantities as well as whether to ship by sea or by air. We develop a model to optimize a static version of this problem and then show how to use this static model in a dynamic setting. We test the model with data from Polaroid and show its effectiveness.
Subjects
dual replenishment modes
inventory and transportation planning
supply chain application
supply chain modeling
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Operations Research Center
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