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Jack Kuchta cited in recent publications (Update)

November 6, 2009 No comments yet

Jack Kuchta was recently quoted in: Maida Napolitano, “Locating Your Distribution Center, Part I, Re-engineering the Distribution Center Network”, Logistics Management, February 1, 2008 Corinne Kator, “Which Picking Method s Work”, Modern Materials Handling, February 28, 2007 James A. Cooke, “Who’s in charge here?”, DC Velocity, November 2006 Maria Napolitano, “The Cross Dock Evolution”, Logistics [...]

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Health care reform and the supply chain

July 27, 2009 7 comments

While no one knows what, if any, health care reform will come out of congress, it is certain that it will have an impact on the supply chain.  From the employee cost side, there will be a change in health care cost that the system will have to absorb.  If the government will be providing [...]

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Network modeling assumptions.

July 24, 2009 No comments yet

One assumption often made in supply chain network models is that the sources are fixed.  That may not be the right assumption in all cases.  Many products, whether commodities or manufactured products can have alternative sources with differing acquisition costs, minimum purchase quantities, lead times and delivery costs that will change the left total cost [...]

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