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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Supply Chain System"”.
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Optimization and simulation for design of multi-objective, multi-echelon supply chain system
… strategy, aggregation, on a multi-echelon supply chain network by managing demand volatility is discussed in this research. For this an operational supply chain design is considered. Multi-echelon network consisting of manufacturing plants, distribution centers, warehouses, and retailers is …
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Enhancing service providers reliability by mitigating supply chain risk : the case of telecommunication networks
… service providers are not as dependent on their supply chain as product companies are, a closer look of some relevant systems shows that a stable and resilient supply chain is a key for both maintaining service and growing it. A wireless network provider which does not have spare parts in place …
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Investigation of the Environmental Effect of Unit Load Design Optimization Using Physical Interaction Between Pallets and Corrugated Boxes
… handled, stored, and transported through the supply chain system in unit load form consisting of pallets, corrugated boxes, and load stabilizers. Hence, it is important to holistically understand the environmental impact of not only individual packaging levels, but also the unit load form. We …
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Designing and Implementing Hard Drive Inventory Policies for Enterprise Computing Solutions
… managing component inventory. In addition, many supply and demand planning decisions are contextual rather than process driven, making it difficult to understand precisely how inventory level is influenced by its independent variables. The objective of this project is to develop a set of dynamic …
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Development of a Pharmaceutical Tablet Authentication system using Spectroscopic Techniques in combination with Multivariate Chemometric Methods
… in the world are falsified. Unfortunately, the supply chain system of developing countries (from manufacturers to customers) is not well monitored and suffers the highest rates of fraudulent activities. Also, the rise of product procurement from the internet increases the chance of American …
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Supply Chain Revenue Management Considering Components' Quality and Reliability
… two factors that impact the performance of the supply chain. Stochastic reliability affects the final production quantity and hence makes it more difficult to predict the manufacturer's best ordering quantity as opposed to the simpler traditional news vendor model. In addition, the quality of …
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Framework for selection of distribution strategies
… rapidly, the existing infrastructure of the supply chain system set up long ago, faces an increasing pressure to meet new challenges and needs to be restructured. A seasonal seed manufacturing company, such as Seed Corp, has only five months of manufacturing time in the Fall each year. …
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Vendor Managed Inventory: A new approach to supply chain management
The Global Supply Chain Forum (Stanford Global Supply Chain Forum Web Resource, http://www.stanford.edu/groups/scforum) defines supply chain management (SCM) as “Supply chain management is the integration of key business processes from end user through original suppliers that provides products, …
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Reliability, robustness, and resilience of complex supply chain systems: design optimization and analysis under uncertainty
… resilience rates of individual factories in a supply chain system (SCS), the interactions among connected factories and the impact of those interactions on overall supply chain reliability, robustness, and resilience have been rarely studied. Moreover, ensuring the reliability, robustness, and …
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Reducing scope 3 carbon emissions in grocery stores' supply chain systems
… with the Icelandic low-cost grocery store chain Krónan ehf. and the company was used as a case in the study. The aim of the thesis was to evaluate and calculate the scope 3 carbon emissions from transportation and distribution in Krónan’s supply chain, with the objective of answering the …
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Development of a consumable inventory management strategy for the supply management unit
… consumable inventory management strategy for the Supply Management Unit (SMU) that will be applicable to other Department of Defense (DoD) supply support organizations. The SMU is a Marine Corps wholesale activity that provides Class IX (consumable repair part) supply support to 160 Marine Corps' …
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Component acquisition and single-source vendor management strategy in a defense application
… It is the goal of this research to improve the supply chain to support the preferred construction schedule, while reducing cost and risk associated with component acquisition. This thesis begins with an analysis of the current supply chain system within NGSB New Carrier Construction.
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Differential evolution optimisation of a two echelon inventory system.
… part inventory optimisation in a two-echelon supply chain setting. The study of DE in application to supply chain planning is limited; thus, we present a well-known hard discrete non-linear stochastic optimisation problem to determine the inventory investment for a two-echelon supply chain …
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Benchmarking the Key Determinants for Successful Business Growth Within Manufacturing
… provides a capability to assess a complex supply chain system against the determinants of competitive advantage, hence achieve sustained company growth.<br/><br/>This study directly contributes to the body of knowledge around supply chain auditing and benchmarking, by focussing on novel …
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Where did all of the totes go? : a study in supply chain design
… when designing and implementing this type of supply chain system is developing a reverse logistics strategy that ensures carton return by the consumers, whom the corporation must convince to participate in closing the logistics loop. This thesis analyzes a pilot program conducted by a consumer …
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Development of new steam methane reforming mobile plant with micro-scale catalytic channels
… to be scaled up for hydrogen production supply chain system of future fuel-cell electric vehicle transportation sector especially in any region with affordable natural gas price.
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Policy recommendations to improve the competitiveness of small scale farmers in Colombia through Information and Communication Technologies
… for being a mix of two kinds of productive systems: large-scale commercial enterprises and small-scale peasant farms. It is estimated that peasants comprise around a third of Colombia's population, contribute more than 60% of the agricultural production and around 30% of the livestock …
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A systematic architecting approach for supply chains
… and quick responses among participants in supply chain systems. Globalization, specification, and the use of technologies that pursue low costs with high services have been dominating the supply chain design for years. Since 9/11 in 2001, however, supply chain designs have shifted from …
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