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Closing the Food Access Gap in American Underserved Communities ?
(2020-10-29)Malnutrition is a global issue that affects millions of people across the world. Malnutrition is not just the lack of food, but also consists of the overabundance of unhealthy food due to a lack of healthy food. This ... -
Mirroring payment terms and lead times ?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)In a simple representation of a supply chain, products flow from suppliers to customers, and currency flows from customers to suppliers. The period it takes a supplier to satisfy a customer order is called lead time. The ... -
Intermittent demand forecasting for inventory control : the impact of temporal and cross-sectional aggregation ?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)Managing intermittent demand is a challenging operation in many industries since this type of demand is difficult to forecast. This challenge makes it hard to estimate inventory levels and thus affects service levels. The ...