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    • Online Grocery & Omnichannel Strategy: Predicting Home Delivery Adoption 

      Alberts, Ryan Alexander; Lahad Abinader, Antoine (2018)
      The traditional way to reach customers in e-commerce is home delivery. Retailers have expanded fulfillment options to include picking up from a store, locker, 3rd-party collection point, and more. This study focuses on two ...
    • Operating Strategies for a Segmented Supply Chain 

      Orende, Bernadette (2018)
      An operations strategy is a method or plan of action that corporations employ to reach their goals. A good strategy enables a company to operate efficiently and use its resources effectively. The purpose of this capstone ...
    • Optimal Green Fleet Composition Using Machine Learning 

      Patil, Vrushali; Samaha, Elissar (2019)
      Due to the use of petroleum-based fuel, the transportation sector is one of the two principal contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and its contributions are expected to double by 2050. Freight sector contributes to ...
    • Optimal Production Planning Strategies for Global CPG Company 

      Sakr, Omar Mahmoud (2021-06-16)
      Companies in the Consumer-Packaged Goods Industry are faced with a chronic dilemma: efficiency vs. agility. Companies must find the balance between scale, which creates cost-saving opportunities, and flexibility, which ...
    • Optimal Supply Chain Operating Strategies by Replenishment Stream 

      Gorman, Mary Kate Agnes (2018)
      In the world of consumer packaged goods (“CPGs”), not all demand is created equal. While Base Demand typically comprises anywhere from 50 – 80% of day-to-day volume, other demand profiles, or replenishment streams, make ...
    • Optimization of Cost and Carbon Emissions in a Multi-Echelon Distribution Network 

      Benhassine, Amina; Shan, Boping (2023-09-08)
      Over the past decade, the oilfield services industry has experienced two major trends: the drive to reduce costs and the push for sustainability. In this context, our sponsor company seeks to optimize the distribution of ...
    • Optimizing Fleet Utilization by Adjusting Customer Delivery Appointment Times 

      Copley, Colleen; Lu, Charles (2020-07-24)
      The supply of trucks and drivers is struggling to keep up with the increasing and volatile demand for ground transportation. As a result, for companies like Niagara Bottling LLC., supply chain managers are pressured to ...
    • Optimizing Product Group Segmentation 

      Budhiraj, Anushka; Du, Ye (2018)
      Piece picking is an integral operation in distribution centres (DCs). The partner company has it as the largest part cost item of DC operations. The current product slotting and assignment planning needs to be improved to ...
    • Optimizing Returnable Transport Item Repositioning in a Global Supply Chain 

      Ikeya, So; Latorre, Lisandro de (2022-06-10)
      The automotive industry is an exemplary leader in the use of returnable cases for the transportation of inbound freight. Their use reduces the need of expensive and expendable packing and contributes to lower greenhouse ...
    • Optimizing Satellite Locations for a Multi-Echelon Last Mile Distribution Network to utilize Alternative Delivery Vehicles for Last Mile Delivery 

      Goyal, Abhinav (2020-08-06)
      The growing urban population over the past few years has created many challenges for last mile distribution, such as traffic congestion, pollution, and lack of parking space availability. With the advent of e-commerce ...
    • Optimizing the Logistics Network for Pipeline Inspection 

      Scutari, Alessandro; Kosansky, Aviva Tova (2021-06-16)
      The sponsor company for this capstone has a complex logistics network due to the fact they use a service model for their products. Their products use advanced technology to service water, wastewater, oil, and gas pipelines ...
    • Overcoming the Driver Shortage by Addressing Driver Detention 

      Mera, David Esteban; Sirikande, Sandeep Kumar (2022-06-10)
      In the United States, long-haul trucking is the main mode of transportation of goods. The trucking industry has been facing a shortage of drivers in the past few years and it is only increasing every year. Previous studies ...
    • Pattern Recognition in Consumer Packaged Goods Data 

      Aboutaleb, Hanin (Massachusetts Institute of Techology, 2018)
      The speed at which a manufacturing company analyzes big data and reacts to the market trends can be key to its success. In consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, a delay in analyzing the huge amounts of data produced ...
    • Planning for Peak Demand in Reverse Logistics 

      Thakur, Anshu; Teoh, Ian Martin (2018)
      The project sponsor is a reverse logistics company that provides Returnable Transport Items (RTIs) to large manufacturing companies, distributors and retailers. Its business model is characterized by a unique closed-loop ...
    • Portfolio Modeling and Forecasting of Single-Use Rare Disease Treatments 

      Leising, Jordan Michael; Goldman, Olivia Claire (2021-06-16)
      Biopharmaceutical companies are increasingly exploring cutting-edge novel gene therapies (GTs) in an effort to cure rare diseases. This capstone develops and tests a practical forecasting framework for sharing capacity ...
    • Potential Benefits of Drones for Vaccine Last-Mile Delivery in Nepal 

      Lembcke Berninzon, Adriana; Vongasemjit, Ornipha (2021-06-09)
      Nepal’s immunization coverage hovers around 78%, and 59 out of 77 districts have not yet been fully immunized. The objective of this study is to review the vaccine last-mile distribution to find a cost-efficient solution ...
    • Potential Benefits of Drones for Vaccine Last-Mile Delivery in Nepal 

      Vongasemjit, Ornipha; Lembcke Berninzon, Adriana (2021-06-16)
      Nepal’s immunization coverage hovers around 78%, and 59 out of 77 districts have not yet been fully immunized. The objective of this study is to review the vaccine last-mile distribution to find a cost-efficient solution ...
    • Power Influence in Horizontal Collaboration Relationships 

      Suarez Moreno, Juan David (2021-06-16)
      Supply chain horizontal collaboration has captured the attention of many researchers and practitioners. Horizontal collaboration offers multiple benefits in creating competitive advantages for companies and leveraging their ...
    • Predicting and Planning for the Future: North American Truckload Transportation 

      Sokoloff, David; Zhang, Gaohui (2020-07-21)
      The trucking industry is crucial to the United States economy. An overwhelming majority of goods transported across the US are moved in trucks. For most companies, truck transportation is a prominent component that impacts ...
    • Predicting Carrier Load Cancellation 

      Al-Habib, Ali; Favier Gonzalez, Nicolas (2018)
      Truckload cancellations by carriers are causing disruptions in the trucking industry operations. By extrapolating the findings from the 3PL’s data studied in this research to the whole trucking industry, it is estimated ...