MS&E 252 Decision Analysis I Handout #16 November 8th‚ 2007 Case Study Due: Friday November 30th‚ 2007 The case study will give you practice applying the concepts you are learning in MS&E 252. . You are from the XYZ consulting company (you can create your own name). William Jaeger of Freemark Abbey Winery has hired your company to help him make a production decision. A storm is approaching the winery and Jaeger is not sure if he should wait for the storm or harvest the grapes immediately
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LOGISTICS CENTRES DIRECTIONS FOR USE EUROPLATFORMS EEIG 1 A report by EUROPLATFORMS EEIG January 2004 The term “logistics centres” generally denotes those sites specially organised for carrying out logistics activities. The name of these sites may vary depending on the customs in practice in each country – for instance we may find: 1. Centres logistiques de fret 2. Gares routières de marchandises 3. Logistics park 4. Platform freight terminal 5. Interporto 6. Centro integrado
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Executive Summary In today’s rapidly changing business environment‚ ever-greater demands are being placed on business on every industry‚ such as to provide products and services quicker‚ with greater added value‚ to the correct location‚ with no relevant inventory position‚ etc. However‚ customers are more sophisticated by wanting more quality‚ design‚ innovation‚ choice‚ convenience and service‚ and they want to spend less money‚ effort‚ time and risk. Hence‚ every business has to deal with highly
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Strategies for Reverse logistics : ’ Dedicating special areas for Return material storage ’. Table 4.7f Strategies for Reverse logistics: ’ Dedicating special areas for Return material storage ’. a Level of presence. Not at all present Least present Somewhat present Mostly present Present all across Total No. of Respondents 0 2 114 143 9 268 % Respondents 0.0 0.7 42.5 53.4 3.4 100.0 Note. a Level of presence:
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and HomeHelp to consider in evaluating this proposal? Is time-based logistics the right strategy for each company? These are the major business propositions: * Information transmission system from POS data to manufacturing plant. * Inventory level control * The future perspective of annual growth * New business process * The initial investment on equipment‚ and additional cost The time-based logistics will be the right strategy for each company. The first reason is the
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OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Vol. 2‚ No. 3‚ September 2009‚ pp. 167-171 ISSN 1979-3561|EISSN 1979-3871 167 Managing Supply Chain Complexity in a Tea Manufacturing Company I Nyoman Pujawan* Department of Industrial Engineering‚ Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology‚ Kampus ITS Sukolilo‚ Surabaya 60111 Indonesia E-mail: pujawan@ie.its.ac.id Mahendrawathi Er Department of Information Systems‚ Faculty of Information Technology‚ Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology‚ Kampus
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The name of the paper is solving one dimensional cutting stock problem with discrete demands and capacitated planning objective. Cutting stock problems are NP-hard problems and mentioned about what is NP-hard problems. One of classical NP-hard problems which could not be solved within the polynomial computation time is a cutting stock problem. Wongprakornkul and Charnsethikul said that the most powerful algorithm for solving linear problems with many columns is the column generation procedure and
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company encounters external problems that may affect their business negatively without any control‚ but the test of success for a business is how one copes with these disasters. After evaluation of the of Tsunami crisis in Japan and the affect it had on Honda Canada‚ your job is to create a sense of security for all customers‚ employees and dealers. To address these concerns about the negative impact of the Tsunami‚ it is important to focus on three key factors when implementing a statement to both internal
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Introduction Development of Logistics Industry in China Development trend of China’s logistics industry More competitions in further from the foreign investment and private enterprise in China The Corning of the integration Storm in China Conclusion Reference Introduction With China’s entering WTO and the coming of the economic globalization‚ modern logistics has stepped into a far increased stage. In 2003‚ the logistics in China occupied RMB 240 billion
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Introduction……………………………………………………………….3/7\ Relationship………………………………………………………………3/7~4/7\ new requirements…………………………………………………………4/7~5/7\ The efficiency and reliability of international logistics…………………..5/7~6/7\ Conclusion ………………………………………………………………….6/7\ References…………………………………………………………………7/7\ International trade and international Logistics The rapid expansion of trade liberalization and the growth of global capital markets and integration‚ information technology and the progressive development
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