This program is offered by the Department of Management Science and Information Systems (MSIS). It is the continuation of the previous concentration in Management Science and the program of Operations ...

You can't just call it a company anymore — it's more of an economy unto itself. With $76 billion in annual sales, 138,000 employees, and operations in more than 80 countries, Procter & Gamble, the ...

Queueing-Inventory Systems represent a critical integration of queueing theory and inventory management, merging the stochastic nature of customer arrivals and service times with the practical ...

Efficient Learning Algorithms for the Best Capped Base-Stock Policy in Lost Sales Inventory Systems Periodic review, lost sales inventory systems with lead times are notoriously challenging to ...

Your ERP isn’t broken — it’s just outdated, because inventory accuracy still depends on stopping the factory instead of ...

Editor’s Note: Every year, 40 or so students in the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics' (MIT CTL) Master of Supply Chain Management (SCM) program complete one-year thesis research projects. The ...

Business managers face an endless list of complex issues every day. They must make decisions about financing, where to build a plant, how much of a product to manufacture, how many people to hire, and ...

If your business requires maintaining an inventory, you might sometimes feel like you're walking a tightrope. Not having enough inventory means you run the risk of losing sales, while having too much ...

As an online business, your sales numbers won’t matter if you can’t deliver your customers’ orders efficiently. There’s an inventory sweet spot you’re always looking to achieve — not overstocking, not ...