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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Stock-Outs"”.
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Product promotion effectiveness : root causes of stock-outs
… leads to lost sales incurred due to frequent stock-outs, affecting the revenue and the brand of both the manufacturer and the retailer. The research focuses on finding out the root-causes of stock-outs in retail stores. It uses the audit response data that informs us of various states for zero …
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A root cause analysis of stock-outs in the pharmaceutical industry
… continues to expand its global presence, product stock-outs in their pharmaceutical business unit have been consistently increasing. PharCo suspected that manufacturing quality defects were a major cause of stock-outs, reducing the production yield and preventing the company from meeting customer …
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An algorithm to determine the causes of inventory stock-outs in manufacturing firms
… led to an extremely low tolerance for inventory stock-outs. In such an environment, any shortage is costly, and understanding why stock-outs occur and how to prevent them is an important issue. However, the answer to the question of why stock-outs occur is not always easy to determine. …
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Improvement model for reducing stock-outs using inventory management tools in a commercial company specializing in solar thermals
… objective of the research work is to reduce the stock of a company in San Martín, Peru, that offers the installation service of solar thermal heaters. First, a brief description is presented, the background of the organization and an evaluation of the company's indicators to find the problem …
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Determination of drivers of stock-out performance of retail stores using data mining techniques
… of performance variables such as between stock-outs and store attributes, and stock-outs and other variables including store sales, income and demographic data, as well as various aspects of inventory management data. This research uses three data mining techniques: multiple …
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Medicine stock Management at primary health care facilities in one South African province
… of unavailability of medicines due to frequent stock outs at the public health facilities. The increase in prevalence of HIV/AIDS and TB has resulted in an increase in the demand for medicines used in the management and treatment of these diseases. Surveys have revealed the extent of stock outs …
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Improving the consumer demand forecast to generate more accurate suggested orders at the store-item level
… consumer goods company today is reducing retail stockouts at its Direct Store Delivery (DSD) customers via pre-selling, which represents approximately 70% of the company's total sales volume. But reducing retail stock-outs is becoming constantly more challenging with an ever-burgeoning number of …
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The production planning and inventory management of intermediate products for a pharmaceutical company
… production rates and setup times to prevent stock outs. The optimal cycle time should provide the optimal inventory levels for the intermediate products. The production planning model stabilizes the fluctuations in inventory levels and outperforms TCG's production plan in 2008 by 115 pallet …
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Point-of-sale demand forecasting
… forecasting processes have resulted in frequent stock-outs and inventory surpluses, which in turn affect revenue, profitability, and brand trust. Potential root causes for demand fluctuations have included: -- Erratic customer behavior, including unplanned promotional events, allocation of …
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An Assessment Of The Contribution Of Prime Vendor Model On Availability Of Essential Medicines In Tanzania
… of Prime Vendor model in curbing drug stock outs at the health facilities, finding out the number of orders fulfilled at the health facilities through Prime Vendor model and assessing the effectiveness of prime vendor model in minimizing essential medicine order turnaround time in …
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Operations improvement in a semiconductor capital equipment manufacturing plant : capacity management and inventory policies
… of labor for assembly operations and inventory stock-outs are identified to be the main factors limiting the plant's capacity. A factory simulation model is used to estimate current capacity and identify imbalances in the assembly line design. A new layout is developed which is capable of …
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Internal dynamics of the short-term commercial aircraft engine leasing market
… to recommend inventory levels that minimize stock outs. A less computationally intensive system dynamics model is then constructed to replicate the lease demand forecasting model. Sensitivity analysis is performed using the system dynamic model and influential parameters are identified. The …
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Algorithmic intervention to mitigate inventory and ordering amplification in multi-echelon supply chains
… and refers to how forecast errors and safety stock builds yield increasing amplitudes in both orders and on-hand inventory positions the further one moves away from a source of order variability. The bullwhip effect is responsible for both excessive strain on real world inventory management …
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Reducing transportation costs and inventory shrinkage in the Washington State tree fruit industry
Perishability and stock-outs are two sources of inventory inefficiency in the Washington State tree fruit industry. This thesis measures the size of these inefficiencies in terms of dollars per box, and describes five solutions, four qualitative and one quantitative, that seek to address them. To …
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Optimization-based decision support system for retail souring
… demand for a new article after adjusting for stock-outs and seasonality. We developed and compared various forecast updating methods for accuracy and found that an exponential smoothing-based model, modified to accommodate for changes in level few steps ahead, resulted in highest accuracy …
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Prediction and prevention of the bullwhip effect in replenishment supply chains
… replenishment lead times to customers. Make-to-stock supply chains are particularly susceptible to the risks of the bullwhip effect, where demand information is distorted as it is transmitted up the chain from customers to suppliers. The information distortion leads to a sub-optimal capacity …
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Improved Management Practice for Freight Savings
… expedited shipping due to time constraints, stock outs, damaged inbound products, and human mistakes. We suggest strategies to reduce these problems and thus reduce the use of expedited shipping. Finally, this thesis concludes with a cost-saving analysis that focuses on misalignments between …
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Characterization of the cost of forecast error in a complex supply chain
… forecast that is too conservative will result in stock-outs and loss of customers. The thesis starts with a detailed analysis of Digital Semiconductor's forecasting process. We then describe the analysis and methodology we used to develop a model of Digital Semiconductor's supply chain. This model …
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Production and inventory control of a multi-item multi-stage manufacturing system : simulation modeling, capacitated shipment planning and Kanban design
… manufacturing system. A suitable base-stock inventory control policy is recommended to ensure that the desired service levels are maintained between production stages and for the final customers. Concept of coupling the production lines though coupling-stock under suitable assumptions …
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