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This project analyzes ways to minimize issues regarding decision making within a multi-cultural group and creates a culture-bases group decision behavior model to support group decision maiking.

The objective of this research is to design a technological repair facility which provides a flexible layout that allows for optimal traveling and processing paths, ergonomic workstations, and appropriate software / tools from which to conduct repairs for a multi-client list of vendors.

This project integrates a three-dimensional bin packing problem and a mode selection problem in the international consolidation context. The objective is to minimize the total costs involved in the global supply chain, including ocean container costs, handling costs, Truckload (TL) and Less-than-truck (LTL) costs.