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Design and process solutions for decreasing vendor defects
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Why do some new initiatives fail while others succeed? This thesis attempts to answer this complex question by investigating the failure of a defect tracking initiative at Amazon and examining how a reintroduction of the ...
Engineering work breakdown and assignment for global product development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Companies are always looking for ways to reduce their costs, cost reductions which allow companies to increase their overall profits. There are various cost reductions strategies, such as: change materials and/or design ...
Optimization of surgical supply inventory and kitting
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
This project centered on inventory optimization for operative custom surgical packs and soft good supplies for Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a 947-bed medical center. Custom surgical packs are used in every surgical ...
An analysis of robustness and flexibility in freight transportation systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Freight transportation is a complex large scale system that operates under a highly dynamic and uncertain environment. Due to the scale and complexity of the system, a highly interdependent set of decisions are made across ...
Continuous improvement at a multinational company : dealing with uncertainty in the global supply chain and analyzing implementation dynamics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
This thesis explores the problem of global supply chain flexibility in the context of a multinational commonly that we refer to as Company X. Company X faces competitive markets, increasingly demanding customers, and ...
A systems approach to reducing utility billing errors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Many methods for analyzing the possibility of errors are practiced by organizations who are concerned about safety and error prevention. However, in situations where the error occurrence is random and difficult to track, ...