Cost of stockouts in the microprocessor business and its impact in determining the optimal service level/

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2005.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sonnet, Maria Claudia
Other Authors: Stanley B. Gershwin and Donald B. Rosenfield.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2006
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34863
_version_ 1811077689857015808
author Sonnet, Maria Claudia
author2 Stanley B. Gershwin and Donald B. Rosenfield.
author_facet Stanley B. Gershwin and Donald B. Rosenfield.
Sonnet, Maria Claudia
author_sort Sonnet, Maria Claudia
collection MIT
description Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2005.
first_indexed 2024-09-23T10:47:00Z
format Thesis
id mit-1721.1/34863
institution Massachusetts Institute of Technology
language eng
last_indexed 2024-09-23T10:47:00Z
publishDate 2006
publisher Massachusetts Institute of Technology
record_format dspace
spelling mit-1721.1/348632022-01-28T19:36:48Z Cost of stockouts in the microprocessor business and its impact in determining the optimal service level/ Sonnet, Maria Claudia Stanley B. Gershwin and Donald B. Rosenfield. Leaders for Manufacturing Program. Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Sloan School of Management Sloan School of Management. Mechanical Engineering. Leaders for Manufacturing Program. Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2005. Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-67). In order to develop optimal inventory policies, it is essential to know the consequences of stockouts and the costs related to each kind of stockout; at Intel, however, such costs have not yet been quantified. The primary goal of this internship is to quantify the cost of stockouts, focusing in the microprocessor business. The first stage of this thesis consists of describing the different consequences of stockouts. In a stockout situation, customers may opt to buy alternate products at either higher or lower price (buy up or buy down), postpone the purchase until the product is available (postponed sales), buy the product from a non-authorized distributor (sales lost to the open market) or buy a non-Intel product (sales lost to the competition). Each of those consequences has a different financial impact, so we quantify stockout cost for different stockout situations and different service levels. This analysis is conducted at an aggregated level and also by product line. The results of this project show that stockouts have a high financial impact in the microprocessor business. (cont.) Due to the high margins, each sale lost to the competition means losing a significant dollar amount, which may easily out weigh the inventory related costs of that product. The result is service levels that are higher than Intel had believed would be appropriate. The quantification of the financial impact of the different stockout situations will be a valuable input into further supply chain optimization analysis including adjustment of finished good inventory levels. by Maria Claudia Sonnet. S.M. M.B.A. 2006-11-08T16:51:25Z 2006-11-08T16:51:25Z 2005 2005 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34863 63675580 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 67 p. 4356393 bytes 4359123 bytes application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
spellingShingle Sloan School of Management.
Mechanical Engineering.
Leaders for Manufacturing Program.
Sonnet, Maria Claudia
Cost of stockouts in the microprocessor business and its impact in determining the optimal service level/
title Cost of stockouts in the microprocessor business and its impact in determining the optimal service level/
title_full Cost of stockouts in the microprocessor business and its impact in determining the optimal service level/
title_fullStr Cost of stockouts in the microprocessor business and its impact in determining the optimal service level/
title_full_unstemmed Cost of stockouts in the microprocessor business and its impact in determining the optimal service level/
title_short Cost of stockouts in the microprocessor business and its impact in determining the optimal service level/
title_sort cost of stockouts in the microprocessor business and its impact in determining the optimal service level
topic Sloan School of Management.
Mechanical Engineering.
Leaders for Manufacturing Program.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34863
work_keys_str_mv AT sonnetmariaclaudia costofstockoutsinthemicroprocessorbusinessanditsimpactindeterminingtheoptimalservicelevel