Recent Supply Chain Research
Forward
Air Corporation
Project: Industry Partnership Grant
Forward Air is supporting basic and applied research into
transportation pricing and modeling. The mutual goal is to
research the latest in quantitative techniques and to teach
others (students) how to apply these techniques.
St.
Onge Company - York, PA
Project: The purpose of this study is to
document, aggregate, and analyze data for the St. Onge Company
from the 1977 Census of Transportation Flows. Center personnel
prepared Excel spreadsheets summarizing commodity flows through
the St. Louis, MO region and prepared presentation graphics.
CTS also investigated the sources, availability, and cost
of more detailed data regarding commodity and modal specific
flows through the St. Louis region.
Lanter
Company - Madison, IL
Project: Lanter Purchase Order Fulfillment
The purpose of this study was to understand the current purchase
order fulfillment process. CTS students first mapped the steps
taken to complete an order. The mapped business process enables
Lanter to: (1) Identify non-value-added steps; (2) Define
areas that cause order delay and (3) Establish key performance
indicators that employees should use for continuous improvement.
Emerson
Motor Company
Project: The goal of this study was to perform
a detailed analysis of Emerson Motor’s freight bill
payment process, focusing on the freight bill rejections.
The study was based on the logistics management continuous
improvement model, and included (1) a comprehensive flowchart
of the freight bill rejection process; (2) data analysis and
Pareto charts; (3) a cost analysis; (4) and some recommendations
to reduce the amount of non-value added activities created
during the process.
