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Showing 1 to 20 of 573 for “"Supply chains"”.
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Product strategies in supply chains
… dissertation titled "Product Strategies in Supply Chains" consists of three essays. In this dissertation, I study firms' strategic decisions regarding design of products and product lines in different supply chain contexts. I focus on firms' strategic interactions with supply chain members, …
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Collaborative relationships in supply chains
… relationships between organisations in a supply chain. It provides a model for optimising relationships between companies and defines the operational practices that these companies should adopt in order to efficiently develop desirable relationships. This research project starts with the …
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Assortment planning in supply chains
… in the U.S., which is referred to as a two-tier supply chain. In such a two-tier supply chain, manufacturers compete by assortments and/or wholesale prices. The wholesaler sets the optimal market prices of products from all manufacturers. Assortment planning under discrete choice models has been …
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Predictive metrics for supply chains
… framework for developing predictive metrics for supply chains. The goal of these metrics is to provide a key set of indicators, aligned with the business strategy, that provide early warnings of problems or early signals of successful project completion. They allow organizations to analyze risks …
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Effective contracts in supply chains
… of implementing effective contracts in supply chains. In this thesis, we study several issues in supply chain contracts. In the first part of the thesis, we study the impact of effort in a supply chain with multiple retailers. The costly effort engaged by a retailer may increase or …
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Strategic sourcing and technology supply-chains
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996.
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Planning and scheduling in pharmaceutical supply chains
… common but important 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 …
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Quantifying greenhouse gases in business supply chains
… (Berners-Lee, et al., 2011) showed how the supply chain footprint of a small leisure business could be estimated using Environmentally Extended Input-Output (EEIO) modelling. The research presented in this thesis describes the updating of this model to use the most up to date ONS data. This …
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Social sustainability implementation in global supply chains
… implement socially sustainable practices in the supply chain were highlighted by the recent collapse of the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh in April 2013, which killed 1,229 workers of factories supplying apparel to Western retailers like Primark and Benetton. The thesis contributes to this emerging …
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Transforming Linear to Reuse Circular Supply Chains
… concept leading to the emergence of circular supply chains for plastic packaging. This is one of the first studies to focus on the emerging area of Reuse Circular Supply Chains (CSCs) and present an understanding of relationships between SC design and reuse circularity within the context of …
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Capturing value in outsourced aerospace supply chains
… is increasingly outsourcing and offshoring their supply chains in order to maintain profitability in the face of increasing competition and globalization. This strategy for value creation inevitably increases the inherent risks and complexity in the supply chain. This in turn makes capturing the …
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Loss of coordination in competitive supply chains
The loss of coordination in supply chains quantifies the inefficiency (i.e. the loss of total profit) due to the presence of competition in the supply chain. In this thesis, we discuss four models: one model with multiple retailers facing the multinomial logit demand, and three supply chain …
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Future scenarios for green chemical supply chains
… and large distribution networks, the underlying supply chains are a critical component for the chemical industry. The chemical industry is capital intensive and most strategic decisions taken by firms in this industry have long-term impacts. As such, any uncertainty in the environment that …
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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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An integrative framework for architecting supply chains
… explores the limitations of classic models of supply chain management, and proposes a new view based on the concept of value-driven supply chains, and a method of analysis and design based on the concepts of System Architecture. A new supply chain process reference map proposed by Simchi-Levi …
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The value of monitoring in supply chains
Logistics providers process millions of packages daily and collect an incredible amount of data from these shipments. As new sensors are added to more and more packages, companies will now have increasingly fast access to even more data. However, how will logistics companies leverage this idea of …
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Segmentation strategies for managing retail supply chains
… in the retail side of the business where the supply chain is much longer and revenue is sometimes not recognized until the sell-through point, optimizing inventory positioning is critical. No longer is a one-size-fits-all approach sufficient; in order to perform optimally, manufacturers should …
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Three Essays on Psychological Distance in Supply Chains
… a more equitable distribution of profits between supply chain partners. Supply chain decisions and strategies are ultimately crafted and implemented by managers who are influenced by contextual elements of the decision-making environment. This thesis focuses on contextual factors like lead times, …
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Impact of Technological Advancements on Food Supply Chains
… and sustainability imperatives, the beef supply chain contends with multifaceted obstacles. This research explores the potential of RPA to address sustainability concerns in this sector. With a focus on identifying risks to RPA adoption and its implications for sustainability, the study …
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