Optimizing inbound freight mode decisions

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McIntyre, Colin Alex.
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Sloan School of Management.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Operations Research Center.
Leaders for Global Operations Program.
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Vivek Farias and Stephen Graves.
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Abstract
Retail manufacturers often expedite inbound freight shipments from contract manufacturing bases to their distribution centers in destination markets at high cost to improve service levels to their wholesale partners and retail arm. The current process around these decisions has yielded lower than anticipated improvements to service level. This thesis (1) reframes the goal of expediting inbound freight in quantitative, measurable terms that more directly impact the business outcomes, (2) develops an optimization model to select a set of freight shipments to expedite and best improve service, and (3) uses the optimization model to estimate potential improvement magnitudes with strategic changes.
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Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, May, 2020
 
Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Operations Research Center, in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, May, 2020
 
Cataloged from the official PDF of thesis.
 
Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-74).
 
Date issued
2020
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126907
Department
Sloan School of Management; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Operations Research Center; Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Sloan School of Management., Operations Research Center., Leaders for Global Operations Program.
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