Tuesday, November 15, 2016 · Karim Kamareddine and Yihong Yao
As part of its efforts to cut costs, a leading pharmaceutical company set itself an annual goal to reduce working-in-progress (WIP) inventory.
Friday, November 4, 2016 · Roberto Perez-Franco
Successful innovation projects include team members who can collaborate across multiple functional areas. How is your supply chain team performing?
Friday, October 14, 2016 · Lauren McKown
The World Health Organization estimates that nearly half of the world's population is at risk for malaria, a life-threatening, but ultimately curable and preventable disease spread by mosquitos.
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 · Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz, Rajesh Kella, Christos Agrogiannis
Companies commonly use inventory management policies that employ standard formulas for specific demand distributions and remain unchanged for several years.
Thursday, September 15, 2016 · Krishna Rajendran
Large retail chains are increasingly faced with the question of how to develop an ideal product assortment policy to optimize sales. This issue is particularly challenging for retailers that have traditionally served customers in large cities, but are looking to serve a…
Monday, June 27, 2016 · Chris Creyts and Nora Weisskopf
In response to the growth of their e-commerce businesses, many retailers are looking for ways to reduce the supply chain costs associated with internet orders
Thursday, June 23, 2016 · SCMR Staff
Dr. Chris Caplice, Executive Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, will receive the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals' 2016 Distinguished Service Award.
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 · Mike Brocks and Renzo Trujillo
The MIT CTL researchers developed and tested a new predictive failure spare parts planning method, and compared it to a traditional time-series forecasting method via an inventory planning simulation model.
Thursday, April 21, 2016 · Stephanie H. Chen and Eunji Han
For many distribution centers (DCs), order-picking is manual, time consuming and accounts for over 50% of operating expenses.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 · Patrick Burnson
The new center in China will join the global MIT Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) network, which includes centers in Colombia, Spain, Luxembourg, and Malaysia.
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 · Jaspar Siu and Santosh Stephen
Companies are generally aware of the importance of building resilience into their supply chains, but often find it difficult to actually quantify this increasingly important characteristic.
Friday, January 8, 2016 · SCMR Staff
MIT alum Jeff Silver, along with his wife Marianne and two of their sons, visited the Massachusetts of Institute of Technology to gift the Center for Transportation & Logistics with $2.5 million to help fund the Center's ongoing efforts in supply chain research and…
Thursday, November 19, 2015 · Vinod Bulusu and Haekyun Kim
After being caught off guard by a phenomenal increase in sales in 2013, a company in the auto battery replacement market wanted to improve the accuracy of its sales forecasts.
Monday, October 26, 2015 · Axel Barbará and Tomás Dominguez Molet
Companies often group inventory items into classes in order to manage them more efficiently. Managers routinely use these clusters or segmentations in their inventory replenishment planning decisions. However, as companies grow and their operations expand, these…
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