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Theoretical and practical ramifications of altering the amount of sorts required from an outbound dock
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Amazon has been enjoying a rapid pace of growth over the last few years. One unfortunate side effect of this growth is the overall increased complexity of the network Amazon utilizes to deliver packages from the Amazon ...
Cost-optimized warehouse storage type allocations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Amazon's phenomenal sales growth and desire to maintain "Earth's Biggest Selection" have led to an increase in the diversity of product offerings that has resulted in a corresponding increase in complexity of Amazon's ...
Tool selection and kitting : technical and organizational issues
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Boeing South Carolina builds the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the world's first composite-skinned wide-body jet. This new manufacturing facility is evolving to meet the demands of building this complex aircraft. One of the ...
Optimizing procurement and handling costs in a utility
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
We propose a novel method to quantify the cost of activities involved in the picking portion of order fulfillment. We adapt the general method of picking cost quantification to the specific situation of TP&G, a publicly ...
Identification of leading indicators for producibility risk in early-stage aerospace product development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Producibility is an emergent property of product development and manufacturing systems that encapsulates quality, product compliance, cost, and schedule. Detailed product definition and process variation have traditionally ...
Building flexibility in the volatile aftermarket parts : supply chains of the defense aerospace industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Within the Integrated Defense Systems of The Boeing Company, aftermarket support of military aircraft serves as an increasingly large source of revenue. One of the newest contracts between Boeing and the U.S. Government ...
Using massive online choice experiments to measure changes in well-being
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Digital technologies have transformed the nature of production and the types of goods and services consumed in modern economies. Yet our measurement framework for economic growth has not fundamentally changed since the ...
Technology innovation in financial services industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Over the last few decades, we have seen an enormous evolution in the financial services industry driven by technology innovations. Indeed, we cannot imagine the current financial system without electronic fund transfers, ...
Sovereignty and intervention in financial crises
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Sovereignty today is conditional, compromised and contractual in ways that require a reassessment of the doctrine of sovereignty in an era of globalization and global capital markets. Taking as a case study Indonesia during ...
The impact of high-mix, low volume products in semiconductor manufacturing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)