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Supply Chain Optimization for a Major Retailer: Choosing the Right Location for Warehouses

Eldorado Company, a huge electronics retailer in Russia, with stores in 350 cities, needed to determine the optimal number of warehouses, and where they should be situated, in order to better fulfill customer demand and minimize delivery and storage expenses. Input data provided by the...

Eldorado Company, a huge electronics retailer in Russia, with stores in 350 cities, needed to determine the optimal number of warehouses, and where they should be situated, in order to better fulfill customer demand and minimize delivery and storage expenses. Input data provided by the customer described potential warehousing...

Optimizing Transportation Routes for Cost Reduction

Weekends Only exists to provide quality and affordable furniture for every home and budget. A top priority among Weekends Only’s operational challenges is to continuously optimize the distribution of procured furniture from vendors all over the world to its warehouses and retail stores in the...

Weekends Only exists to provide quality and affordable furniture for every home and budget. A top priority among Weekends Only’s operational challenges is to continuously optimize the distribution of procured furniture from vendors all over the world to its warehouses and retail stores in the United States. Historically, inbound ocean freight from Asia had been shipped via the Port of Los Angeles in...

Supply Chain Network Design: Plant Relocation Case

A large European home improvement goods manufacturer was challenged to move one of its plants to another city due to an increase in rent. The supply chain analysts had three possible places for relocation. They had to choose one based on client geography and locations of other production...

A large European home improvement goods manufacturer was challenged to move one of its plants to another city due to an increase in rent. The supply chain analysts had three possible places for relocation. They had to choose one based on client geography and locations of other production facilities and warehouses.

Strategic Supply Chain Network Design for Pharmaceutical Distributor

Houlihan Lokey, a global investment bank with expertise in capital markets, financial restructuring, and strategic consulting was commissioned by one of North America’s leading healthcare distributors to help revitalize their distribution operations. Over the past decade, the specialty...

Houlihan Lokey, a global investment bank with expertise in capital markets, financial restructuring, and strategic consulting was commissioned by one of North America’s leading healthcare distributors to help revitalize their distribution operations. Over the past decade, the specialty healthcare distributor had undergone substantial growth by expanding existing...