MIT Global Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) Network: Recent submissions

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    • Business continuity planning for a U.S. supply chain 

      Chee, Arthur K. L. (Arthur Kuan Loong); Lee, Tzu-Hsueh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
      The research objective was to provide a directional sense of some key considerations for business continuity planning (BCP) specific to a company's downstream distribution operations in the U.S. This was achieved via a ...

    • Impact of 3D printing on global supply chains by 2020 

      Bhasin, Varun; Bodla, Muhammad Raheel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
      This thesis aims to quantitatively estimate the potential impact of 3D Printing on global supply chains. Industrial adoption of 3D Printing has been increasing gradually from prototyping to manufacturing of low volume ...

    • Absenteeism prediction and labor force optimization in rail dispatcher scheduling 

      Jensen, Taylor (Taylor Moroni); Sun, Qi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
      Unplanned employee absences are estimated to account for a loss of 3% of scheduled labor hours. This can be costly in railroad dispatcher scheduling because every absence must be filled through overtime or a qualified extra ...