Browsing University of Missouri-Columbia by Thesis Advisor "Noble, James S."
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A Bayesian approach to demand forecasting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)Demand forecasting is a fundamental aspect of inventory management. Forecasts are crucial in determining inventory stock levels, and accurately estimating future demand for spare part's has been an ongoing challenge, ... -
Design of global sustainable supply chains
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)Increasing concern about the sustainability of supply chain operations is motivating companies and organizations to pursue strategies to reduce their contribution to global environmental and social negative impacts. While ... -
Determining a heuristic for pick location design in an end user warehouse
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)Picking is the number one cost center for most warehouses, representing up to 65% of their total expenditures. Travel time is the largest component of the picking cost which makes travel distance an extremely important ... -
A distribution network design model based on network splitting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In today's market place, logistics have become more important than ever. How to devise an efficient delivery network with low cost has attracted a ... -
Genetic algorithm for batch sequencing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Batch sequencing is an elementary function in production control in a manufacturing facility due to increased customer expectations and fierce global ... -
Impact of medical equipment tracking in a health care system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)The University of Missouri Health Care is preparing to employ bar code technology, in addition to their current systems, besides having high census and staff shortages. Based on Industrial Engineering analysis methodologies, ... -
An integrated logistics performance measurement system for logistics management
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)In the 1980's there was a revolution that changed the nature of traditional performance measurement systems. Since then there has been an explosion in the number of scholars and practitioners seeking new and better ways ... -
An integrated model of cross docking
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)Cross docking is a relatively new logistics technique used in the retail and trucking industries with operations seeking to move materials from inbound locations to outbound locations as quickly as possible. As the high-speed ... -
Integrated procurement and distribution of perishable products in a multi-echelon supply chain system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This paper presents solutions to the grocery industry's perishable inventory problem. To meet their customers' increasing desire for various kinds of ... -
An integrated stock assignment model for a warehouse fast picking area
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)Order picking and restocking of the fast picking area have been identified as the most labor-intensive and costly activities of any distribution center. In a picker-to-item process environment, traveling is an important ... -
A labor allocation model for zone order picking systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The rise in e-commerce retail is contributing to complications in distribution center order picking processes such as SKU proliferation, an increased ... -
Logistic system design of an underground freight pipeline system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)Underground Freight Pipeline (UFP) systems utilize the underground space in metro areas that is otherwise not utilized for freight transportation. Two fundamental logistics issues in the design of a UFP system are network ... -
Material and volunteer convergence in developing a disaster resource portfolio
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Disaster relief operations have been conducted by humanitarian agencies for decades, yet the problem of material and volunteer convergence still exists today. The massive influx of unsolicited ... -
Modeling the urban underground pallet tube system design
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)Cities are witnessing a rapid growth in population and vehicles, causing greater traffic congestion on roads. Therefore, a need for a better transportation system to avoid this swelling congestion. In this research, we ... -
Profit maximization of a kanban-based supply chain
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)In this paper, we propose a stochastic method to model a multi-stage Kanban-based supply chain, constructed strictly under the JIT philosophy.This model decides the optimum number of Kanban with a trade-off between inventory ... -
A quantitative performace measurement framework for health care systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)Performance measurement has been widely used in the manufacturing industry for years. This research has focused on the adaptation of a performance measurement system used in manufacturing for application in health care ... -
Relation-based item slotting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)The cost of warehouse operations contributes approximately 20% of the total cost in a supply-chain system, and the cost of the picking process can be as high as 65% of the warehousing cost. Therefore, there is an incentive ... -
Staging approaches to reduce overall cost in a crossdock environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)Crossdocking operations seek to move materials from inbound locations to outbound locations as quickly as possible. In some cases this can be achieved without intermediate product staging. However, in an environment with ... -
Tradeoff analysis for an integrated transportation and inventory distribution network using mixed integer linear programming
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] One of the distribution network problems faced by industrial organizations today is coordinating the movement of goods on a global scale. The flow of ... -
Two warehouse material location selection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)As a company increases their use of warehouse, the excess inventory that cannot be stored in the owned warehouse are transferred to a third-party warehouse in which the company pays rent and transportation cost for storing ...