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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"New Product Introductions"”.
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Standardization of new product introductions to achieve zero defect lines
… space, which typically targets zero defects in products serving patients. The New Product Introduction (NPI) process is a complex one, with many potential failure modes than can result in unanticipated costs, delays, and defective products. This project sought to streamline the NPI process …
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Slotting Allowances, Failure Fees and Asymmetric Information in the Grocery Supply Chain
Mechanism design framework and two moments of the product demand distribution are utilized to eliminate mean-variance dominated products and separate non-dominated products by their demand distributions. Model results suggest that accurately designed menus of contracts including retail prices, …
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Manufacturer Product Line Decisions In Growing Consumer Technology Markets: A Case of Digital Cameras
… competitive and demand drivers of manufacturer new product introductions in consumer technology markets.</p><p>Researchers in economics and marketing commonly view differentiated products as combinations of "attributes" that are located in multi-attribute space. In first study presented in …
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Modelling of physical and chemical processes in the small intestine
… food formulations by understanding the food product behaviour in the SIM. Optimisation of formulation candidates going to the human trial stage and improvement of speed to market of new product introductions is intended.
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Measuring Firm Innovation and its Relationship with IPO and M&A Activities
… innovation data based on patent applications, new product introductions, and scientific article publications. The quantity of innovation is measured by number of innovative outputs and the quality of innovation is measured by a variety of metrics including patent or article citation count and …
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Improving the consumer demand forecast to generate more accurate suggested orders at the store-item level
… with an ever-burgeoning number of SKUs due to new product introductions and packaging innovations. The main tool this consumer goods company uses to combat retail stock-outs is the pre-sell handheld, which the company provides to all field sales reps. The handheld runs proprietary software …
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A short-range forecasting and inventory strategy for new product launches
… improvement in inventory management of base products, where forecasts are based on historical sales information. Because the bulk of forecasting methods depend on this use of historical data, little effort to date has been focused on inventory management of a new product. The use of …
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Product-level Bill of Material Development Methodology : process implementation
… through continual innovation and release of new products. In order to manage these new product introductions, the Product Operations group enables the development engine by standardizing and refining operations processes. The Bill of Materials Development Methodology (BOM DM) is a new process …
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Go-to-market process for new aerospace transparencies
… companies face is the transition from lab-scale product development to full-scale production. Techniques and processes that are used by research and development (R&D) personnel or within a lab may not be suitable for a production environment, and directly applying an R&D process to production may …
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Essays on competition, innovation, and the interplay of corporate and business strategies
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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New product development types and their relationships with performance: organizational learning and forgetting
… investigates different types of a firm’s product-development experience to explain how it affects firm performance and product performance. In particular, this dissertation examines a firm’s new product introduction and its product redesign experience, as well as how they affect firm …
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Planning and scheduling in pharmaceutical supply chains
… problems in pharmaceutical supply chains. High product turnover is crucial to the continued economic survival and growth of a pharmaceutical company. An issue that relates to this and the one that a pharmaceutical plant repeatedly needs to resolve is whether it can or should undertake to produce …
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Four Essays on Inventory and Supply Chain Management
… and Roels 2008) of the distributionally robust Newsvendor problem, creating data driven models for censored demand (i.e., sales). In particular, we focus on a single-period single-item distributionally robust Newsvendor context, where only observations of sales (censored demand) data are …