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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Delivery Estimate Accuracy: Understanding and Reducing Virtual-Physical Mismatches and Missorts in Fulfillment Centers
Abstract
dc:description.abstractDelivery Estimate Accuracy (DEA) is the Amazon Operations metric that measures the percentage of items that attempted delivery on or before the Promised Delivery Date (PDD). There are significant costs and customer experience impacts when packages are not delivered on time, resulting in a DEA miss. Specifically, there are two types of DEA misses that are less well-understood than others and make up a large proportion of the overall missesVirtual-Physical Mismatch (VPM) and Missort. This project focuses on understanding and reducing the number of VPM and Missort misses in Fulfillment Centers, with the scope being Amazon’s Traditional Non-Sort Fulfillment Centers in the US.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Sloan School of Management
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2024
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Yao, Rong (Jenny)
- Advisors dc:contributor.advisor
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- Zheng, Y. Karen
- Williams, John
Rights
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- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- Copyright retained by author(s)
- Licence dc:rights.uri
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155603
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/155603