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Predicting Food Bank Demand: A Socioeconomic Analysis and Forecasting Model Investigation
(2023-09-08)Food insecurity is a problem that affects people in every county within the United States. To combat this issue, many organizations across the country provide charitable food assistance to their communities. The demand for ... -
Predicting Shipping Time with Machine Learning
(2019)With the globalization of trade, transit time reliability has become a critical point in the shipping industry as irregularities will lead to more delays further down the supply chain. Our sponsoring company, A.P. Møller ... -
A Predictive Model for Transpacific Eastbound Ocean Freight Pricing
(2020-08-06)The containerized ocean freight market has been very volatile due to overcapacity and several disruptive changes. As a global ocean freight forwarder, C.H. Robinson hopes to improve the predictability of the spot ocean ... -
Procurement Control Tower: Proof of Concept through Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
(2023-09-08)An organization’s procurement process is pivotal for its success in a competitive market. The increased uncertainty and complexity of post-pandemic supply chains have made procurement a more valuable focus point among ... -
Profit-Driven Network Redesign Through Value-Creation Services
(2023-09-08)Design of supply chain networks is a key strategic decision in supply chain management. Our capstone sponsor Armada is a supply chain service provider to restaurant chains across the United States. The company is envisioning ... -
Quantifying packaging material complexity to improve portfolio management
(2023-09-08)Product portfolio complexity poses a significant challenge for many consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers, resulting in higher costs, risks, and production time. This work aims to assist the sponsor company in ... -
Quantifying Warehouse Automation and Sustainability
(2022-06-10)Beginning in 2020, the e-commerce grocery retail industry grew rapidly, largely due to the COVID- 19 pandemic. In addition to this shift in consumer shopping preferences, retailers are facing another challenge: a looming ... -
Rationalizing Inventory: A Multi - Echelon Strategy for Safety Stock Justification
(2023-09-08)This work presents a multi-echelon inventory optimization model for a manufacturing company to evaluate optimal inventory levels for a selection of products and their sub-components. The guaranteed service model is employed ... -
Raw Material Minimum Order Quantity Optimization
(2019)The sponsoring company, wants to review their raw material ordering policy and production plan for one of their product segments. This product faces a high degree of volatility in demand and the company currently orders ... -
Reducing Oil Well Downtime With A Machine Learning Recommender System
(2020-07-24)The oil and gas industry plays an important role in the world’s Gross Domestic Product by providing energy resources to the world. With the price for oil commodities falling in recent years, oil and gas companies require ... -
Reimagining Procurement: Differentiated vs Standardized Services
(2023-09-08)Our sponsor company is a leading player in the healthcare market. Its procurement organization is split into three divisions: corporate, business unit, and global services. The procurement strategy is set by corporate ... -
Replenishment Policies for Retail Pharmacies in Emerging Markets
(2019)Pharmaceuticals account for over hundreds of billions of dollars of the global annual healthcare expenditure. Inventory management is essential for the financial health of the retail pharmaceutical industry. The retail ... -
Resilience in Upstream Supply Network
(2023-09-08)After the Covid-19 pandemic, organizations re-evaluated their supply chain strategies and began a race to build resilience in their networks. However, quantifying the level of resilience of any supply chain is a complex ... -
Resource Optimization During Merger and Acquisitions Transactions
(2020-07-24)Mergers and Acquisitions have become means of a quick transformation for companies while basic guidelines related to resource allocation during a transaction are not available. Therefore, this capstone project set out ... -
RFID & Analytics Driving Agility in Apparel Supply Chain
(2019)The apparel industry is facing significant challenges. Today’s consumers have less patience to wait, and omnichannel retailing is the new norm. This requires the entire apparel supply chain to become more agile, which means ... -
Right Sizing Safety Stock and Effectively Managing Inventory Using Forecastability
(2020-08-06)In a commodity consumer product business, such as bottled water, the customer has the power. Therefore, the business incurs whatever cost necessary to meet demand. To reduce the cost of fulfilling demand and of stockout, ... -
Risk Mitigation at Call Centers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Climate catastrophes (i.e. tornadoes, hail, hurricanes, etc.) have a significant economic and operational impact on the operation of call centers. It was found that catastrophe events such as hurricanes critically impact ... -
Risk Mitigation to Increase Time to Survive
(2023-09-08)In our increasingly interconnected global economy, businesses confront heightened risks of supply chain disruptions. This capstone project, sponsored by Tempur Sealy International Inc., a leading manufacturer in the mattress ... -
Root Cause Analysis and Impact of Unplanned Procurement on Truckload Transportation Costs
(2019)The tender rejection rate by primary carriers for the TMC division of CH Robinson nearly doubled from 2015-16 to 2017-18. An increase in tender rejection rates directly results in an increase in transportation costs for ... -
Route Clustering in Transportation with Geospatial Analysis and Machine Learning to Reduce CO2 Emissions
(2018)The transportation sector is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions; hence, it is desirable to lower carbon emissions from this sector, especially with the expected growth in transportation needs from ...
