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

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    • Foreign trade zones and bonded warehouses for luxury goods 

      Petrova, Nadya (Nadya Naydenova); Templeton, A. Todd (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
      We explore and compare the benefits of establishing and operating Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs) and Bonded Warehouses (BWs) for luxury goods in North America, using the case of the distribution network of Ralph Lauren Corporation ...

    • Calculating humanitarian response capacity 

      Nishimura, Kathryn K. (Kathryn Kimie); Wang, Jian (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
      Since the year 2000, at least 300 disasters occurred annually, catching more than 100 million people unprepared and in need of international assistance every year. The United Nations operates five humanitarian response ...

    • Multi-echelon inventory optimization for fresh produce 

      Limvorasak, Saran; Xu, Zhiheng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
      For fresh produce, the product freshness is a key value to end consumers. Retailers try to maximize product freshness at retail stores while maintaining high product availability. Fresh produce that is close to the end of ...