MIT Global Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) Network: Recent submissions
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The impact of "Never Run Out" policy assured supply chain with dual reorder point expediting
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Managing a big supply chain for one of the largest quick service restaurant companies, especially when the company has a policy called "Never Run Out," is very challenging. A traditional way of managing inventory requires ... -
Supply chain planning decisions under demand uncertainty
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Sales and operational planning that incorporates unconstrained demand forecasts has been expected to improve long term corporate profitability. Companies are considering such unconstrained demand forecasts in their decisions ... -
A multi-echelon supply chain model for strategic inventory assessment through the deployment of kanbans
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)As global competition in the manufacturing space grows, so do corporations' needs for sophisticated and optimized management systems to enable continuous flows of information and materials across the many tiers within their ...
