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Evaluating shortage costs in a dynamic environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Dell's Direct Business Model and its global supply chain are the foundations of the company's success. These strategies, however, bring about problems such as long inbound supply lead times and hard-to-predict site-level ...
Challenges faced by a global team : the case of the Tool Reuse Program at Intel®
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
The semiconductor industry is characterized by a high cost of capital equipment and fast change in process technology. Therefore Intel ® Corporation as the world's largest semiconductor company has a significant advantage ...
Lean concepts in customer care : adding value and reducing waste with proactive order status messaging
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Information technology (IT), operational efficiency, and a strong relationship with customers are three critical components to Dell's success over the last twenty four years. Information technology throughout Dell's history ...
Accelerating time-to-market in the global electronics industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
In today's electronics industry, fast time-to-market (TTM) and time-to-profit (TTP) is key to customer satisfaction and firm competitiveness. Optimizing the product development and new product introduction (NPI) process ...
Coordination of inventory distribution & price markdowns for clearance sales at Zara
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
There is an essential need in the retail industry, of integrating inventory planning and pricing strategies. In the fast-fashion world of retail, inventory is treated as a perishable item leading to short selling periods. ...
Integration of technical operations and quality teams to build site unification
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Novartis International A.G. is well known for their effective research and development of life-changing pharmaceuticals, and in 2006, Novartis bought Chiron Corporation, thereby diversifying their portfolio with a vaccines ...
Analysis of asset health : an approach to monitoring and diagnostics for medium voltage circuit breakers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
The Medium Voltage Electric Industry is a very conservative and risk adverse sector that has undergone very little change in the past 30 years when compared to other technologically dependent activities; this reality is ...
Emerging market entry and risk assessment process analysis in a biopharmaceutical supply chain organization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
.Amgen is attempting to increase the impact that its products make in people's lives. To meet this goal, the company is aggressively working to reach more patients through growth opportunities in international markets and ...
A management science approach for developing a decision model for portfolio rationalization of consumer personal computers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Commoditization of the PC market has led to a shift in strategy at Dell away from customization towards defining specific consumer configurations ahead of time. This shift creates new planning and decision processes around ...
Cannibalization effects of products in Zara's stores and demand forecasting
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Because of short product life cycles, large product offerings and fickle consumer tastes, product demand in the apparel retail industry is volatile and difficult to predict. It is also thought to be impacted significantly ...