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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Inventory Planning"”.
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Inventory planning for low demand items in online retailing
A large online retailer strategically stocks inventory for SKUs with low demand. The motivations are to provide a wide range of selections and faster customer fulfillment service. We assume the online retailer has the technological capability to manage and control the inventory globally: all …
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Inventory planning and network design for service parts logistics
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2002.
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Raw material inventory planning in a serial system with warehouse capacity
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 capacity constraints, Amgen is evaluating the use of a 3rd Party Logistics (3PL) …
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An inventory planning methodology for a semiconductor manufacturer with significant sources of variability
… development and implementation of a data-driven inventory and production planning methodology for the Eastman Kodak Company's Microelectronics Technology Division (MID). The thesis gives an introduction to MID's products, processes, and customers, as well as the current business conditions, …
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The impact of installed base and machine failure prediction on spare parts forecasting and inventory planning
… type of forecast into a periodic review (R, S) inventory system. We measure the output of each forecast put into the system in terms of spare parts inventory levels and in-stock service performance. We find that as long as the true positive rate (TPR) and false positive rate (FPR) have different …
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Improving inventory and distribution in an aerospace parts and service organization
… chain design and aligning business strategy with inventory planning. A review of the current state is employed to locate gaps in strategic design, operating efficiencies and customer service levels. Improvement opportunities identified in the current state analysis are addressed with proposed …
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Inventory optimization in an aerospace supply chain
Strategic inventory management has become a major focus for Honeywell Aerospace as the business unit challenged itself to meeting cost reduction goals while maintaining a high level of service to its customers. This challenge has become particularly important as customers have steered their …
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Optimization tools for the freight brokerage industry
… visibility, asset utilization, and supply chain planning leading the way. The use of optimization tools in transportation and supply chain management has proliferated. Network analysis, inventory planning and deployment, fleet routing, and warehouse planning are important examples of areas in …
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Using a newsvendor model for demand planning of NFL replica jerseys
The thesis addresses the inventory planning process for NFL Replica jerseys. The analysis is conducted from the perspective of the manufacturer's North American distribution center, and how flexibility can be employed to meet customer demands. NFL replica jerseys can be stocked either completed …
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Coordination of inventory distribution & price markdowns for clearance sales at Zara
… need in the retail industry, of integrating inventory planning and pricing strategies. In the fast-fashion world of retail, inventory is treated as a perishable item leading to short selling periods. It is a common practice for retailers to liquidate unsold merchandise via clearance markdown …
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Building Inventory Simulations for High Velocity Garment Retail Stores
To facilitate agility in store inventory planning for a brick-and-mortar retail business with high sales velocity and product portfolio complexity, this project created a Monte Carlo tool that simulates how upstream shipment decisions impact capacity utilization and product complexity. The …
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A short-range forecasting and inventory strategy for new product launches
… future demand is not an exact science, inventory management models have been developed to accommodate these uncertainties. There has been a significant improvement in inventory management of base products, where forecasts are based on historical sales information. Because the bulk of …
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Modeling the semiconductor industry dynamics
… makes it difficult to manage supply chain planning and investment in technology transitions. Better understanding the essence of the industry dynamics will help firms win competitive advantages in this turbulent market. In this thesis, we will study semiconductor industry dynamics from …
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Essays on supply chain contracting and tactical decisions for inter-generational product transitions
… The second focuses on tactical decisions on inventory and pricing during inter-generational product transition. In many industries, manufacturing firms use multiple competing suppliers in their component or product sourcing strategy. Chapter 2 studies optimal history-dependent contracts with …
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The Effects of Multitasking on Quality Inspection in Advanced Manufacturing Systems
… manufacturing systems (AMS) are job scheduling, inventory planning, machine set-up, problem solving, and quality inspection. The quality inspection task in AMS consists of a search component, frequently conducted by a machine, and a decision making component conducted by the operator. This …
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Maritime Vehicle Routing under Uncertainty: Liquefied Natural Gas Shipping and Offshore Pipeline Damage Assessment Problems
… In the initial stage, a single production-inventory plan and routing schedule is determined before the realization of the random BOG generation. For every possible realization of the random BOG, the second-stage variables are represented by the amount of LNG surplus or shortage when an LNG …
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Assortment planning in supply chains
… of products from all manufacturers. Assortment planning under discrete choice models has been broadly studied, but these papers usually assume the setting of direct selling where there is no middleman's decision involved. In this thesis, by considering the wholesaler's market price optimization, …
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Service bulletin inventory management and modeling for aerospace parts in customer service organization
… time, which leads to a costly build-to-stock inventory policy. Proper inventory management becomes the focus of the department, given that both inadequate and excess inventory can have a financial impact and damage the overall health of the business. This thesis presents a project to develop a …
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Essays on Service Operations with Strategic Customers and Innovative Business Models
… an industry collaboration aimed at improving the inventory planning decisions of a company that sells high-tech goods with short life cycles. We develop a novel heuristic based on a power approximation in the extant literature. The power approximation computes near-optimal (s,S) policies for …