Optimizing inbound freight mode decisions
Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, May, 2020
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| author | McIntyre, Colin Alex. |
| author2 | Vivek Farias and Stephen Graves. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1269072023-03-01T02:08:51Z Optimizing inbound freight mode decisions McIntyre, Colin Alex. Vivek Farias and Stephen Graves. Sloan School of Management. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Operations Research Center. Leaders for Global Operations Program. Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Operations Research Center Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT Sloan School of Management. Operations Research Center. Leaders for Global Operations Program. Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, May, 2020 Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Operations Research Center, in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, May, 2020 Cataloged from the official PDF of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-74). Retail manufacturers often expedite inbound freight shipments from contract manufacturing bases to their distribution centers in destination markets at high cost to improve service levels to their wholesale partners and retail arm. The current process around these decisions has yielded lower than anticipated improvements to service level. This thesis (1) reframes the goal of expediting inbound freight in quantitative, measurable terms that more directly impact the business outcomes, (2) develops an optimization model to select a set of freight shipments to expedite and best improve service, and (3) uses the optimization model to estimate potential improvement magnitudes with strategic changes. by Colin Alex McIntyre. M.B.A. S.M. M.B.A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Operations Research Center 2020-09-03T15:52:23Z 2020-09-03T15:52:23Z 2020 2020 Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126907 1191623589 eng MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 74 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Sloan School of Management. Operations Research Center. Leaders for Global Operations Program. McIntyre, Colin Alex. Optimizing inbound freight mode decisions |
| title | Optimizing inbound freight mode decisions |
| title_full | Optimizing inbound freight mode decisions |
| title_fullStr | Optimizing inbound freight mode decisions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Optimizing inbound freight mode decisions |
| title_short | Optimizing inbound freight mode decisions |
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| topic | Sloan School of Management. Operations Research Center. Leaders for Global Operations Program. |
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