SCALE Research Reports: Recent submissions

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    • Improving supply chain agility of a medical device Manufacturer 

      Bai, Xinye; Rosenberg, Yaniv (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
      This thesis focuses on a medical device manufacturer, DeCo, which offers surgical instruments to customers at no cost in order to facilitate the sale of implantable products that require the use of such instruments. DeCo ...

    • Towards a consumer-oriented supply chain 

      Andrianopoulos, Panagiotis, M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Pérez Wario, Hector Rafael (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
      The current consumer products industry is primarily designed as a customer oriented supply chain; this means that it is designed to fulfill orders from the distribution centers or stores of the retailers. The question posed ...

    • Relationship between price and performance : an analysis of the US trucking market 

      Amiryan, Nane, M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Bhattacharjee, Sharmistha (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
      This thesis focuses on the study of the carrier-shipper relationships in the US trucking market. It uses data provided by a leading third party logistics (3PL) company to explore and determine whether a relationship exists ...