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ULTRON: Managing Warehouse Space and Item Obsolescence: A Teaching Note
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-03-31)
Sandwichworkz - The Fusion Street Café
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-08)
Takshshila, the owner of Sandwichworkz, a trendy restaurant in Ahmedabad, India, is worried about the diminishing profitability of her restaurant. Recent promotional offers have increased the footfall, but not profitability. ...
ULTRON: Managing Warehouse Space and Item Obsolescence
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-03-31)
Several white goods companies are grappling with issues such as short product life-cycle and high item obsolescence rates. This case analyzes several strategies to overcome item obsolescence, standardize put-away and picking ...
Nagpur Golden Transport Company: From Data to Insights
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-08)
Trucking business management: cases and concepts
(McGraw Hill Education, 2016)
Trucking Business Management is a compilation of cases authored by professors and researchers of IIM Ahmedabad in the field of road transportation. It is an attempt to fill the business-practice gap and impart a professional ...
A prescriptive analytics framework for efficient E-commerce order delivery
(Elsevier, 2021-04-30)
Achieving timely last-mile order delivery is often the most challenging part of an e-commerce order fulfillment. Effective management of last-mile operations can result in significant cost savings and lead to increased ...
Modelling driver's reactive strategies in e-hailing platforms: an agent-based simulation model and an approximate analytical model
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-10-26)
For an e-hailing taxi operation, we analyse a driver's profit-maximising reactive strategy (to either accept or refuse a ride request) in response to the ride request broadcast by the platform. We analyse four operating ...
Modeling landside container terminal queues: Exact analysis and approximations
(Elsevier, 2022-06-07)
With the growth of ocean transport and with increasing vessel sizes, managing congestion at the landside of container terminals has become a major challenge. The landside of a sea terminal handles containers that arrive ...
Dynamic vehicle allocation policies for shared autonomous electric fleets
(INFORMS, 2022-03-31)
In the future, vehicle sharing platforms for passenger transport will be unmanned, autonomous, and electric. These platforms must decide which vehicle should
pick up which type of customer based on the vehicle’s battery ...
Loading and unloading trains at the landside of container terminals
(Springer, 2022-02-25)
We study the operational problem of loading and unloading trains at a container terminal. Trains are served by two gantry cranes which spread over multiple trains on parallel tracks at the terminal landside. Multiple ...