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Reverse logistics supply chain process modeling and simulation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
As consumer preferences shift towards online shopping and utilizing their homes as fitting rooms, traditional brick and mortar retailers are faced with the challenge to adapt. Many retailers are experiencing a growing ...
Quantifying a fair labor value for garment production through prediction of factory efficiency
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Li&Fung is a world leader in logistics, sourcing, and procurement; connecting manufacturing vendors with major retail brands. Recently, there has been an increasing consumer demand for more sustainably produced and sourced ...
Big data analysis interrogating raw material variability and the impact on process performance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Within the biopharmaceutical industry, material sciences is a rapidly growing field to continue to ensure reliable production and delivery of medicines. Consequently, there is an on-going need to evaluate and assess new ...
A systematic approach for assessing next generation technologies and solutions in biomanufacturing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Amgen is one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies and competes globally to advance important medicines in a highly competitive marketplace. Biologics manufacturers such as Amgen have traditionally ...
Optimization of delivery promise policy to control peak demand on a fulfillment network
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Maintaining high on-time delivery performance is a key objective for Amazon.com and an expectation from customers. This objective is particularly challenging to achieve during periods of peak demand, when extremely high ...
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 ...
Inventory modeling for active pharmaceutical ingredient supply chains
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Pharmaceutical companies traditionally manufactured drugs in-house, and have only recently been increasingly outsourcing production to contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs). In this work, we use inventory modeling ...
Multi echelon supply chain design for Amazon private brands
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Retailers across the globe continue to grow their private label portfolio to offer customers an alternative to existing brands. Typically, retailers source private label products directly from manufacturers to remove ...
Value of distribution-level reactive power for combined heat and power systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
As the U.S. electric grid continues to experience an increase in the penetration of distributed energy resources (DER), electric utilities are evaluating new approaches for utilizing DER to help cost-effectively maintain ...
Artificial intelligence infrastructure into material attributes insights
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The development of a biopharmaceutical manufacturing process involves an assessment of all possible sources of variation throughout each of the unit operations in the drive toward six sigma manufacturing. The primary goal ...