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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"transportation cost"”.
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Transportation cost functions : a multiproduct approach
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1981.
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Impact of the transportation cost on "Los Pijiguaos" bauxite project, The
Includes bibliographical references.
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Improving the inbound supply chain through dynamic pickup windows
… this growth has added complexity for the inbound transportation organization, it has also created opportunities to reduce transportation cost and improve performance. Inbound transportation managed by Amazon currently represents 60% of the company's inbound freight. For this freight, Amazon uses …
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Intermodal variability and optimal mode selection
Transportation cost is one of the major costs in supply chain. Companies need to optimize every aspect of the transportation process to reduce the total logistics cost. A key aspect is optimal mode selection to minimize the cost of every lane in a company's transportation network. The traditional …
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Analyzing the level of service and cost trade-offs in cold chain transportation
This thesis discusses the tradeoff between transportation cost and the level of service in cold chain transportation. Its purpose is to find the relationship between transportation cost and the level of service in cold chain transportation. Regression models are built to quantify the additional …
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Can we improve the freight network solutions of a large retailer by using probability distributions to model demand?
… the quality of our solutions for a retailer's transportation network by employing probability distributions to model freight demand. The quality of the solutions was assessed in the basis of transportation cost and service level. The research work was based on a large scale LP optimization …
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Demand allocation strategies in the seasonal retail industry
… primary study, this framework explores variable cost and transportation cost for the retail industry. The Amazon.com organization is discussed. Then a presentation on variable cost and transportation cost is introduced. A model is then introduced that ties variable and transportation costs …
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An application of the hedonic approach to estimating prices for steam coal contract terms
… examined include Btu, sulfur, and ash content; transportation cost, average annual tons delivered, start year of the contract, length of contract, buyer controlling interest in the mining operation, coal mine locations, and the individual buyers. Data for about eighty-five percent of all 1978 …
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Designing a biodiesel supply chain in Mexico City
… properties compared to other feedstocks and low cost; collecting it for local reuse has enormous environmental savings potential. Supply chain design is essential for the success for this startup biodiesel enterprise. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze a biodiesel enterprises value chain …
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Reducing shipment variability through lean leveling
… 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 constant quantitates of top selling SKUs), a …
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Developing a framework for global distribution in the biopharmaceutical industry
… truck distribution system to help reduce transportation cost, while maintaining the service level and capacity constraints. In doing so, the paper examines the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), a NP-hard combinatorial optimization in the context of biopharmaceutical customer demand …
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Modeling the impact of complexity on transportation
… thesis aimed to understand the drivers of total transportation costs during supply chain complexity events, in particular new product launches, in a fast moving consumer goods company in the United States. The research specifically investigated which of the four key transportation cost drivers …
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The Impact of Unit Train Rates Upon Spatial Price Differentials for Corn
… system is a complex of many activities in which transportation plays an important role. Transportation is not only an important physical function, but it also has an important role in price relationships, since prices at the numerous points comprising the grain market are linked by transportation …
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Inbound supply chain optimization and process improvement
… and identify improvement opportunities in transportation cost and lead time. Analysis will be focused on defining the current state and evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the inbound processes. This paper will also include a literature review of the various freight consolidation and …
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… OF THE CONDITIONS OF EXPLOITATION AND THE COST OF GREEK VEHICLES FOR INTERNATIONAL ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION AS WELL AS THE FRAMEWORK OF OPERATION WITHIN THE COUNTRIES OF EEC. DEVELOPMENT OF METHODOLOGY FOR THE CALCULATION OF THE TRANSPORTATION COST. DESIGN OF A MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR …
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Use of transportation relays to improve private fleet management
We explore the use of transportation relays, a somewhat unconventional transportation operations concept, in terms of improving private fleet management. A transportation relay is a shipment that is divided into two legs. With transportation relays, there is more ways to route freight with a …
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BUBLS : a mixed integer program for transit centre location in the Lower Mainland
… facilities. The model considers nonrevenue transportation cost (deadhead), capital cost of constructing candidate transit centres and the salvage values of existing centres. A linear regression is generated to produce the travel times from the terminus of a route to potential transit centre …
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Life with HIV in a suburban community: an exploration of experiences pertaining to health and social care service access
… and unintentional biases about HIV; isolation; transportation, cost, and time: barriers to access; flawed delivery of health care services; and inefficient, antiquated social care service delivery. These findings have implications for community-based, interprofessional health and social care …
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Distribution network optimization in the uniform rental industry
… models are a commonly used tool to identify cost efficient network flows. Complexity increases when various products move across different paths and transportation modes within one network. To address the challenges posed by this complexity, this thesis develops a mixed integer linear …
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Impact of risk sharing on competitive bidding in truckload transportation
… surcharge (FSC) program affected its per-load transportation costs in the United States full-truckload (TL) transportation industry. In this study, we restricted transportation costs to line-haul charges and fuel surcharge premiums. Using ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, we examined the …
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