Essays about: "Holding cost"

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  1. 6. Cost to serve: The Interrelationships between costs in the Supply Chain of companies within the hard metal rock drilling and metal cutting tools industry

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Derick Okodi; Måns Riesser; [2022-08-04]
    Keywords : Supply Chain Management; Open-book Accounting; Outsourcing; Supplier-manufacturer Collaboration; Cost to Serve;

    Abstract : The globalised market has introduced consumers to a variety of affordable products with a wide range of desired attributes from competitors who are strategically located in areas with affordable labour, expertise, and raw materials. This has encouraged firms to circumvent competition through outsourcing. READ MORE

  3. 7. Backshore Once Offshored Manufacturing? : Exploring Sustainability as a Driver for Backshoring Decisions in Sweden

    University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

    Author : Valeria Bracamonte Nuñez; [2022]
    Keywords : offshoring; backshoring; sustainability; environmental system analysis tools; environmental decision making; Swedish automotive industry and global steel industry;

    Abstract : This master thesis has been conducted for Hanza Holding AB which is a global company with production facilities grouped into local clusters in proximity to its clients. The company has experienced an increased demand from companies seeking to relocate their production back to their home countries to be closer to their end markets. READ MORE

  4. 8. Strengthening green infrastructure : modelling connectivity between continuity forests with high nature conservation values at the Sveaskog forest holding in northern Sweden

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies

    Author : Simon Mattsson; [2022]
    Keywords : betweenness centrality; connectivity; forest biodiversity; graphab; graph modelling; high conservation value forest; proxy continuity forest; qgis;

    Abstract : The continuity forests of the Swedish boreal landscape have become very sparse due to intensive rotation forestry and human land-use, and the remaining forests are very fragmented. These forests have a high conservational importance as they hold nature values that relies on a long forest continuity. READ MORE

  5. 9. Batch sizing in production : A case study on batch sizing at the press lines at Volvo GTO in Umeå

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för matematik och matematisk statistik

    Author : Martin Ericson; Oscar Westin; [2022]
    Keywords : Analytics; Bootstrapping; Lean; Lean production; Logistics; Lot sizing; Manufacturing;

    Abstract : Volvo GTO is currently interested in reducing their batch sizes at the press operation in Umeå. Where a large number of different cab parts are currently produced for trucks on two different production lines that interact with each other. READ MORE

  6. 10. Heuristic and Exact Evaluation of Two-Echelon Inventory Systems

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistik

    Author : Gudborg Nanna Sigurdardottir; [2022]
    Keywords : Inventory Control; Single-echelon model; Two-Echelon model; Mathematics and Statistics;

    Abstract : The main theme of this project is inventory control with stochastic demand. In this thesis, we consider a two-echelon inventory system that consists of one central warehouse and N retail stores. Customer demands at the retailers follow independent Poisson demand processes and each customer only demands one unit. READ MORE