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MIT SCM Symposium 2024
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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.
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Friday, May 17 • 10:00am - 10:30am
Optimizing the Life Cycle of Last-Mile Packaging

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More than 85 million tons of cardboard waste are created annually, with most ending up in landfills. This capstone project aims to develop a mathematical optimization model to help last-mile delivery companies reduce their carbon dioxide (CO2) footprint by collecting and reusing cardboard cartons. Specifically, the optimization model suggests from which customers cardboard boxes should be collected during a delivery route, considering practical constraints such as limited vehicles' capacity and maximum driving time. Our results indicate that collecting all potential cardboard boxes is not imperative to achieve the highest possible reduction in CO2 emissions.
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Advisors
avatar for Matthias Winkenbach

Matthias Winkenbach

Director of Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Matthias Winkenbach is a Principal Research Scientist at MIT, where he serves as the Director of Research of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics. In this role, he manages CTL’s research activities and shapes the center’s strategic agenda of creating supply chain... Read More →
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Selene Silvestri

Research Scientist, Center for Transportation and Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
I am a Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics. My current research spans across the area of supply chain network design and optimization. My work is performed in collaboration with global organizations, and it aims to help such organizations improve decision-making... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am EDT
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