MIT SCM Symposium 2024

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MIT SCM Symposium 2024

Welcome to the MIT SCM Research Symposium 2024 and thank you for joining us! We hope you find the day exciting and informative. To enhance your experience, we are utilizing this platform in order to help identify projects of top interest to you. Below you will find not only the schedule, but also the abstracts and attached executive summaries of each project. Additionally, you can better acquaint yourself with the student presenters and advisors through their profiles. Thank you again and we look forward to hosting you.

8:00am EDT

Breakfast Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:30am EDT

Welcome Remarks Grand Ballroom

9:00am EDT

Forecasting Drilling Bits Demand: A New Horizon for an Energy Global Technology Company’s S&OP Skyline CDEThiago Faury • Ilya Jackson Optimizing Tempur Sealy International's North American Distribution Network for the Adjustable Base Category Skyline ABSophie Hsu • Drake Turnquist • Selene Silvestri • Matthias Winkenbach Strategy Formulation for SKU Rationalization using Financial and Bill of Material Metrics Longfellow ABSeyeon Park • Mayank Raj • Milena Janjevic Truckload Procurement: From State-of-the-Practice to State-of-the-Art Longfellow CMaria Lucchi • Chris Caplice

9:30am EDT

Machine Learning in Prescribing Optimal Target Inventory Levels for FMCG Skyline CDEFiranza Fadilla • Wenchao Zhang • Ilya Jackson • Devadrita Nair Criticality of U.S. Food Supply Chains from Latin America Longfellow ABSantiago Perez Olvera • Mateo Rojas • Elenna Dugundji • Chris Mejia Dell - Supply Chain Emissions Hotspot Analysis Skyline ABHansika Gupta • Dhorn Kosolpatanadurong • Josue Velazquez Accounting for Uncertainty: An Empirical Analysis of Truckload Budgeting Longfellow CShayna Moliver • Mostafa Taheri • Chris Caplice

10:00am EDT

Forecasting the Demand of Key Opinion Leader (KOL) Live Streams in China Skyline CDEMavis Lu • Elizabeth Marchosky • Jafar Namdar Fresher Food Supply: Evaluating the impact of pick-to-zero strategy on freshness of produce using discrete event simulations Longfellow ABShantanu Baviskar • Kalyan Simha • Chris Mejia • Eva Ponce Optimizing the Life Cycle of Last-Mile Packaging Skyline ABCristina Aguirre Algara • Omar Pineda • Selene Silvestri • Matthias Winkenbach Predicting the Likelihood of a Shipment Write-Off Longfellow COscar Bonet • Joshua Weston • Chris Caplice • Devadrita Nair

10:30am EDT

An Application of Neural Networks to improve Forecast Accuracy in a FMCG company Skyline CDEMiguel Iturralde • Diego Alonso Campos Durand • Jafar Namdar Dealing with Supply Chain Complexities with Scenario Intelligence Longfellow ABZhan Ding • Luis Felipe Sena • Devadrita Nair • Maria Jesus Saenz Achieving Operational Excellence by Ensuring Optimization of Electric Vehicles vs. Internal Combustion Engines in Fleet Vehicles Skyline ABJospin Kalumire Mubaki • Niraja Shukla • Elenna Dugundji Cost to Serve Longfellow CMatias Opazo • Douglas Tjokrosetio • Milena Janjevic

11:00am EDT

Decoding Carrier Preferences in Digital Freight: A Predictive Machine Learning Analysis Skyline CDEPerry Falk • David Correll Impact of Exogenous Variables on AI/ML Forecasting Algorithm Prophet, in the FMCG Industry Longfellow ABRyan Rocke • Lili Zhang • Ilya Jackson • Maria Jesus Saenz Innovative Green Network Design for a Multinational CPG Company Skyline ABKavitha Balakumar • Fan Gruener • Sreedevi Rajagopalan • Josue Velazquez Truck Tetris: Optimizing Packaging for Transportation Efficiency Longfellow CJunia Mionis • AJ Shaw • Miguel Rodriguez Garcia

11:30am EDT

Lunch Grand Ballroom

1:00pm EDT

Impact of Downstream Supply Chain Dynamics on Patient Access to Oncology Medicines Skyline ABPatricia Andrade • Ping Wang • Jarrod Goentzel Enhancing Efficiency in Cell & Gene Therapy Shipments: A Pathway to Scalability and Reliability Skyline CDEKevin-Alexandre Jacquot • Elenna Dugundji • Thomas Koch Capacity Increase and Inventory Trade-Off for an FMCG Company Strategy Longfellow ABJose Arturo Espinosa • Mohamed Gaafar • Sean Willems Storm Warnings: Leveraging Truckload Trends for Prescriptive LTL Heuristics Longfellow CBobby Kheny • Claire Urbi • David Correll

1:30pm EDT

Integrating Generative AI to Drive Efficiency in Spend Intelligence and Negotiation Strategy Skyline CDEAndres Ayala • Ria Verma • Elenna Dugundji • Thomas Koch Early Assessment of Economic Viability in Cell and Gene Therapy via Alignment of Cost and Market Skyline ABYuan Fang • Ravi Kumar • Jarrod Goentzel Exploring Supply Chain Co-location: Implications on Cost, Speed-to-Market, and Sustainability Longfellow ABNilay Kumar • Oscar Nieto Michelis • Eva Ponce ELD Insights: Profiling Driver Duty Cycles and Truck Stop Visits in America Longfellow CArdi Prasetya Hernawan • David Correll

2:00pm EDT

Unveiling Gross Profit Erosion Factors in a Medical Devices product Portfolio Skyline ABAmine Tmimi • Yaniliz Valentin • Jim Rice Efficient Drop Trailer Management in a Volatile Network Skyline CDEAlex Carroll • Troy Egar • Elenna Dugundji • Thomas Koch Transforming Supply Chain Strategy with Robotics: Measuring the Impact of Utilizing Robotics for Product Repackaging Operations Longfellow ABArjun Kapoor • Alex Varnhagen • Mauricio Gamez-Alban • Chris Mejia Leveraging Freight Flow Data to Identify Underserved Industrial Real Estate Markets Longfellow CSantiago Hernandez • Shane Huisman • Ilya Jackson • Devadrita Nair

2:30pm EDT

Demand Forecasting with Machine Learning Skyline CDEJason Tseng • Turgay Turkmen • Juan Carlos Pina Pardo Recurrent Neural Network for Predicting Sequential Supply Chain Delays Skyline ABAmber Lin • Anirudh Narula • Tim Russell Behind the Curtain: Evaluating Supply Chain Responsiveness Longfellow ABMaria De Loreto Cantu Villarreal • Ray Zhang • Inma Borrella Equity and Profitability in Same-Day Delivery Longfellow CJean Herode Bertrand • Yan Xu • Juan Carlos Pina Pardo • Matthias Winkenbach

3:00pm EDT

Predicting semiconductor component lead time for an oil and gas company: A dynamic safety stock model with machine learning Skyline ABChu Cho (Chong) • Thomas Koch Beyond Revenue: Comprehensive Risk Management in Global Warehouse Networks Skyline CDENimisha Kunnathu • Linyi Zhang • Jafar Namdar • Sreedevi Rajagopalan Estimating On-Shelf Availability of CPG Products at Nanostores in India Longfellow ABMatthias Eder • Stephanie Gomez • Inma Borrella Elucidating US Import Supply Chain Dynamics: A Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Network Approach Longfellow CNikolay Aristov • Ziyan Li • Elenna Dugundji • Thomas Koch

3:30pm EDT

Improving Procurement Buying Channels Planning and Utilization using Advanced Analytics Skyline CDEFoyinsola Adeyemi • Fabrizio Boaron • Maria Jesus Saenz Improving Nutrition Rankings for Food Banks Longfellow CJustin O'Driscoll • Jarrod Goentzel

4:00pm EDT

Reception Riverside Terrace