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Reducing government proposal procurement process complexity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
US Aerospace Defense Vehicle Manufacturer (UADVM) sells Assembled Complex Equipment to the US Government through multi-year contracts. According to the Truth in Negotiations Act (TINA), such government defense contracts ...
The Johnson and Johnson journey deploying SmartOps for multi-echelon inventory optimization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Multi-echelon inventory technology enables firms to significantly reduce inventory costs. It gives managers the ability to make tradeoffs based on information from the entire supply chain, which results in a more powerful ...
Service based logistics optimization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This thesis explores the use of a service based logistics optimization (SBLO) methodology for an inbound reverse logistics network. Currently, Quest Diagnostics solves the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) ...
Demand forecasting at Zara : a look at seasonality, product lifecycle and cannibalization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Zara introduces 10,000 new designs every year and distributes 5.2 million clothing articles per week to a network of over 1925 stores in more than 86 countries. Their high product mix and vast global network makes demand ...
Raw material inventory planning in a serial system with warehouse capacity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
The thesis explores inventory management principles in the context of a storage capacity constrained warehouse. Amgen Inc. is building a new manufacturing facility in Singapore. Due to internal raw material warehouse ...
Using analytics to improve delivery performance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Delivery Precision is a key performance indicator that measures Nike's ability to deliver product to the customer in full and on time. The objective of the six-month internship was to quantify areas in the supply chain ...
Pooling and segmentation to improve primary care prescription management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Analyses of schedule history and medical records for large primary care medical practice are combined with time studies to develop a quantitative network flow model of the prescription management process, including metrics ...
Improving the Boeing 787 final assembly corrective action process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This thesis evaluates and then recommends improvements to the process used to correct errors found in the Boeing 787 final assembly operations, known as the corrective action process. The goal is to reduce the time and ...
A systematic approach to internal spare parts management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Internal spare parts management is a universal issue faced by all manufacturers, and involves decision-making and planning across a highly complex and heterogeneous group of thousands of items. Spare parts exhibit intermittent ...
Enhancing service providers reliability by mitigating supply chain risk : the case of telecommunication networks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Service providers rely on the continuity of their service to sustain their businesses. While at first glance it may seem that service providers are not as dependent on their supply chain as product companies are, a closer ...