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

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    • Reducing transportation costs and inventory shrinkage in the Washington State tree fruit industry 

      Foreman, James Sterling (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
      Perishability and stock-outs are two sources of inventory inefficiency in the Washington State tree fruit industry. This thesis measures the size of these inefficiencies in terms of dollars per box, and describes five ...

    • Multi-echelon multi-product inventory strategy in a steel company 

      Iocco, Juan D. (Juan Domingo) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
      This thesis examines a distribution multi-echelon production-inventory system subject to stochastic demand in the steel industry. The sponsor company, Ternium (a South American steel producer), needs to provide short service ...

    • Predictive metrics for supply chains 

      Haydamous, Linda (Linda A.) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
      The economic crisis that the world has been experiencing since 2008 has led several organizations to announce record losses and bankruptcies. But couldn't the chief factors have been predicted, at least to some extent? ...