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Inbound freight consolidation for US manufacturers at China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
In recent years, China has become the world factory for a sizable portion of products. Most manufacturing conglomerates in the United States now have contract manufacturing plants in China. Because many of these US companies ...
Sterilization resource forecasting in the medical devices industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
Sterilization is an example of a procedure that has been outsourced by medical device companies. Sterilization is required for all medical devices and the process used is based on product type. As demand for medical devices ...
Benefits of postponement for fashion products with forecast updates
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
This thesis examines the benefit of postponement of fashion products by considering the overage cost of the intermediate product and the correlation between the demand for each end products produced from it. The benefit ...
Lucent SCN : leveraging the fully integrated supply chain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
(cont.) in the success of Lucent's turnaround and, from the patterns that emerge, a basis for a new holistic framework for designing and leveraging an integrated supply chain is offered. This framework suggests that attaining ...
Financial supply chain dynamics : operational risk management and RFID technologies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
The banking industry is consolidating to streamline its operations through mergers and acquisitions, and is adopting new technologies to develop innovative products and services, thereby achieving both economies of scale ...
Flexibility in transportation procurement : a real options approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Shippers who use for-hire carriers need a careful estimation of their need for trucking capacity in order to be able to haul products in a timely and cost-effective manner. This thesis outlines a flexible approach to ...
An analysis of long-term agreements with suppliers in Lockheed Martin's commercial satellite systems division
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Lockheed Martin designs and builds commercial satellites to customers' specifications. The customers, such as telecommunications companies and weather forecasters, are very price sensitive and, usually, award contracts to ...
Choosing transportation alternatives for highly perishable goods : a case study on nuclear medicine
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
The transport of highly perishable goods, in particular nuclear medicine, is subject to stringent regulations. Carefully designed transport selection criteria considering available alternatives, product attributes, decay ...
Supply chain automation and the effects on clinician satisfaction and patient care quality in the hospital setting
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
The healthcare industry, more specifically hospitals, has in recent times been experiencing a steady rise in nursing shortages and cost pressures. To offset these problems hospitals have increasingly relied upon supply ...
Risk in agriculture : a study of crop yield distributions and crop insurance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Agriculture is a business fraught with risk. Crop production depends on climatic, geographical, biological, political, and economic factors, which introduce risks that are quantifiable given the appropriate mathematical ...