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Enabling cultural shifts : an enterprise approach toward lean thinking
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
The Supply Planning Operations team, in a large manufacturing firm, faced a future where their complexity of scope was increasing without an increase in resource levels. As an effort to improve both efficiency and effectively ...
Making real-time precision adjustments to world-wide chip production
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Intel has recently embarked on a mission to improve its supply chain responsiveness. Currently production lead times are around 4 months requiring a forecast a quarter out. Most customer demand changes happen within lead ...
Impact of retail sales and outsourced manufacturing on a build-to-order supply chain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Dell Inc. has undertaken a major transformation in strategy since the return of its founder, Michael Dell as company CEO in January 2007. One major aspect of this new strategy is a renewed focus on the consumer market, ...
Understanding the effects of larger wafers on the global semiconductor equipment supply chain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
This thesis examines how an investment in 450mm wafers might affect capital equipment suppliers in the semiconductor industry and assesses if the 450mm transition is in the industry's best interest. The 450mm transition ...
Modeling variability for biologics strategic planning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Making strategic decisions about resource capabilities in the uncertain business of drug development is a challenging task. Novartis, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, is expanding from its success in small molecule therapeutics ...
Clearance pricing optimization at Zara
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
In almost thirty-four years after opening the doors to its first store, the Inditex Group has grown to be one of the largest fashion distributors in the world. Today the group operates more than four thousand retail stores ...
Developing a process for supply chain risk management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
In today's competitive markets, companies look for any advantage they can build over their competitors. A number of companies recognize that supply chain excellence is an opportunity to create such an advantage. A superior ...