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

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    • Evolutionary struggles of supply chain strategy in home-based health care delivery 

      Fowler, Katherine Szabo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
      As the healthcare industry in United States continues to be constrained by increasing costs, new delivery channels are coming into practice. One such channel is home healthcare. Home healthcare presents challenges on the ...

    • Analysis and cost versus reliability in a multi-echelon supply chain for a chemical plant 

      Li, Nan, M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Zhang, Guanghao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
      The object of the thesis is to develop a simple approach or heuristic for managing various types of uncertainty within a chemical production/inventory system. Later the company can use it to minimize the total cost at any ...

    • Framework for selection of distribution strategies 

      Li, Chunlin, M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
      When a company grows rapidly, the existing infrastructure of the supply chain system set up long ago, faces an increasing pressure to meet new challenges and needs to be restructured. A seasonal seed manufacturing company, ...