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Modeling Total Delivered Cost in the Automotive Industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
Automotive part sourcing is a large scale complex problem that involves the procurement of thousands of individual parts from hundreds of different suppliers. This project focuses on the development of a new Total Delivered ...
High Velocity Supply Chain: Redesigning a Long Lead Time, Short Shelf Life Supply Chain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
Composite materials, which can be simultaneously lighter and stronger than aluminum, provide multiple advantages to the aerospace industry. However, the heat-sensitive resins used in these materials begin degrading as soon ...
Raw Material Optimization to Bend the Biopharmaceutical Cost Curve
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
Raw materials sourced from sole third-party suppliers have been identified as one of the key risks to Amgen’s operation. This project aims to reduce raw material costs through sourcing alternative materials and optimizing ...
Development, implementation, and application of project prioritization system in wafer fabrication manufacturing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
Development cycle time reduction for customized helicopter wiring systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
Real-time Multi-period truckload routing problems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
In this thesis we consider a multi-period truckload pick-up and delivery problem dealing with real-time requests over a finite time horizon. We introduce the notion of postponement of requests, whereby the company can ...
Approximating the performance of a last mile transportation system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The Last Mile Problem (LMP) refers to the provision of travel service from the nearest public transportation node to a home or office. We study the supply side of this problem in a stochastic setting, with batch demands ...
Design of large scale transportation service networks with consolidation : models, algorithms and applications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
Harmonization of aviation user charges in the North Atlantic airspace
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
The purpose of this thesis is to explore various harmonization scenarios for North Atlantic en route user charges. The current charging system involves eight countries, each with their own method for computing user charges. ...
Increasing e-commerce distribution center capacity through slotting strategy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
To meet increasing consumer expectations around delivery times, ecommerce retailers must take orders from 'click' to 'ship' as soon as possible. For retailers with tens of thousands of stock keeping units (SKUs), item ...