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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"Supply Chain Management Program"”.
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A Determination of the Essential Outcomes for Higher Education Supply Chain Management Program Success
… and competitiveness of organizations, supply chain management is evolving into a major business school discipline. The rapid growth of SCM integration concepts enabled by information systems and technology continues to experience significant improvements and changes. These factors …
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Effect of override size on forecast value add
Business forecasting frequently combines quantitative time series techniques with qualitative expert opinion overrides to create a final consensus forecast. The objective of these overrides is to reduce forecast error, which enables safety stock reduction, customer service improvement, and …
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Improving shipping contracts with the use of emerging technologies
… is how emerging technologies, primarily Blockchain, can be used to make this process more efficient in terms of time and cost. Our research shows that while there are a considerable cost and time savings possible for certain aspects of the contracting process, there are some problem areas, …
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Capacity planning under demand and manufacturing uncertainty for biologics
Due to the long lead times and complexity in drug development and approval processes, pharmaceutical companies use long range planning to plan their production for the next 10 years. Capacity planning is largely driven by the long-term demand and its forecast uncertainty. The impact of …
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Multi-echelon inventory modeling and supply redesign
… of raw materials and finished goods through the supply chain of a multi-national oilfield services company. We study a centralized inventory approach, assessed through heuristics, against the existing decentralized approach. Sensitivity analysis with regard to service level, and mode of transport …
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E-commerce based closed-loop supply chain for plastic recycling
… volume. We then, design a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) based optimization model to assess different take-back routes and calculate various operational costs. In addition to the optimization model we determine the feasibility of this process by considering cost offsets such as price of …
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Impact of Drug Supply Chain Security Act on US pharmaceutical industry under decentralized information flow
… drugs, the US government introduced Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) mandating that all prescription drugs should be serialized. In addition, it mandates all pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. to provide tracking documents in response to a tracing request from FDA. While the act …
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Unlocking value in healthcare delivery channels
Pharmaceutical supply chains are strictly regulated and work within unique constraints. Traditionally, innovator companies that are manufacturing the product have no direct interaction with the end users (treatment sites or individual patients); rather, over 90% of the orders go through …
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Optimal inventory model for managing demand-supply mismatches for perishables with stochastic supply
… corporate/professional agencies, thus leading to supply variability. During special occasions like festivals, as individuals set aside more of the raw material for their own consumption, we encounter a reduction in supply. Around the same time, we notice a spike in customer demand, leading to a …
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Reducing shipment variability through lean leveling
High volatility in order patterns leads to supply chain wide inefficiencies and high operational costs. This issue is particularly common in the consumer goods industry due to large numbers of SKUs under management and frequent promotions. By leveling out the number of weekly shipments (containing …
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Using K-means clustering to create cost and demand functions that decrease excess inventory and better manage inventory in defense
Excess inventory is prevalent in both the armed forces and defense companies; it takes up space and resources that could be used elsewhere. This thesis proposes a method to reduce the excess inventory and associated costs, while maintaining instant part availability, despite design changes which …
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Identifying inventory excess and service risk in medical devices : a simulation approach
Medical devices companies struggle to balance between inventory and service performance, as the products are non-interchangeable and inventory investment is expensive. To find the right level of inventory, we first used unsupervised clustering method to find demand pattern uncertainty for each …
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Intermittent demand forecasting for inventory control : the impact of temporal and cross-sectional aggregation
Managing intermittent demand is a challenging operation in many industries since this type of demand is difficult to forecast. This challenge makes it hard to estimate inventory levels and thus affects service levels. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of multiple levels of data …
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Closing the gap between information and payment flows in a digital transformation
… do not consider the three fundamental flows of a supply chain; material, information, and payment. To address the issue, this thesis develops a lens to identify mismatches between material, information, and payment flows, and applies this lens to putaways and the post goods receipt process in the …
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Quantifying the impact of digitalization on manufacturing supply chain management (SCM) in a power generation company
… are expected to boost companies' manufacturing supply chain performance factors such as availability and productivity. For instance, greater availability of assets on the shop floor makes the product flow more predictable and smooth, thus reducing the necessity for high inventory and increasing …
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Effects and mitigation of natural hazards in retail networks
… two-stage multi-period inventory flow stochastic program. The resilience investments consist in acquiring additional inventory to buffer against disruptions and the use of real options contracts with suppliers to execute when a declared emergency happens. We use a set of risk profiles over the …
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Applying human-machine interaction design principles to retrofit existing automated freight planning systems
With the increased application of cognitive computing across the spectrum of industries, companies strive to ready their people and machines for future system change. Based on resource constraints, business needs, and the speed of change, many companies may opt for system augmentation rather than …
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Simulated annealing algorithm for customer-centric location routing problem
In today's world, the e-commerce market is growing rapidly and becoming more competitive. While many players in the industry are attempting to get their share of pie, consumers are demanding faster deliveries and free shipping. This market growth and change in consumer behavior provides an exciting …
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SKU stratification methods in the consumer products industry
For companies with a large number of Stock Keeping Units (SKUs), it is extremely challenging, if not impossible, to manage the SKUs individually. Therefore, companies stratify SKUs into different classes and manage them by class. Currently, most companies identify SKU stratification based on the …
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Balancing product flow and synchronizing transportation
… steady flow of products between two nodes of a supply chain can bypass this order-plan-ship process. A steady flow of products can reduce transportation costs, increase cross-dock productivity, and reduce bullwhip effect upstream in the supply chain. This thesis develops an analytical framework …
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