Designing and Implementing Hard Drive Inventory Policies for Enterprise Computing Solutions

Historically, the Storage business unit of the Dell-EMC Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) has maintained large inventory buffers to deal with high demand uncertainty and minimize part shortages. High product configurability and complex product structures continue to present challenges to effectively 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 inventory policies to enable inventory reduction at ISG while maintaining or improving cycle service levels. Our approach is based on modeling the inventory behavior of the existing supply chain system, and generating inventory policies that more accurately reflect consumption within the system. Three parameterized inventory policies have been built and tested.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Sloan School of Management

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Machtinger, Ephraim D.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Jung-Hoon Chun and Donald Kieffer.

• Sloan School of Management.
• Mechanical Engineering.
• Leaders for Global Operations Program.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122571

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/122571