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The influence of manager-centric competencies on the performance of micro and small enterprises in Latin America
(2022-06-10)
According to an OECD report, micro and small enterprises (MSEs) constitute 99.5% of all firms in Latin America and employ approximately 60% of the LATAM population. However, despite their economic and social importance, ...
Strategic Approach for Assessing Supply Chain Resilience Investment Options
(2022-06-10)
In today’s business world, supply chain resilience has been brought to the forefront of management topics due to the increasing number of both natural and manmade supply chain disruptions in the past decades. Without an ...
Global Home Care Supply Network Design Optimization
(2022-06-10)
Companies can expect to lose almost 42% of one year’s profit every decade because of supply chain disruptions. Working to have better supply chain resilience and robustness is now a necessity to stay competitive and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Supply Chain Modeling for Temperature-Sensitive Pharmaceutical Goods
(2022-06-09)
The pharmaceutical industry relies on cold chain supply infrastructure to preserve the integrity of temperature-sensitive products. Specifically, passive controlled temperature solutions present an increased challenge as ...
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 ...
Inbound Incoterm Conversion
(2019)
Most organizations spend significant time on improving the processes and systems related to outbound movement of goods, i.e., cargo moving from the production site to customers. This focus often ignores the other aspect ...
Demand Forecasting for Ebola Responses
(2019)
The accelerating global trends of urbanization, interconnectivity, and population mobility are creating the conditions to increase the frequency, severity, and velocity of future outbreaks of high threat pathogens. ...
Evaluating Supply Chain Sustainability through Triple Bottom Line
(2022-06-08)
Avetta, a supply chain risk management & compliance firm, is introducing a new ESG (Environmental, Social, & Governance) offering to better support clients on their sustainability journeys, as they look to increase ...