Supply Chain Frontiers issue #54 On September 30, 2014, supply chain education will take a major step into the digital age with the start of SCx, an on-line educational program developed by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) for thousands of professionals across the globe. More than...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #54 Professor Dr. Rogelio Oliva at the Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC) was awarded the Skinner Teaching Innovation Award by the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS). The award recognizes innovative approaches to teaching production and management operations courses. Criteria for winning the award include the diversity...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #54 Cost to Serve is a key financial measure that helps companies decide how to segment markets and support customers cost-effectively. However, the way this value is calculated varies from company to company, particularly in terms of how certain costs – including those associated with managing...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #54 Senior and mid-level managers will have the opportunity to explore the challenges of supply chain strategy at The Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation’s (MISI) executive education course “Driving Supply Chain Advantage” on September 24, 2014, on the MISI campus, Shah Alam, Malaysia. The highly...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #54 The MIT Zaragoza Master of Engineering in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (ZLOG) program offered by the Zaragoza Logistics Center has been recognized by the publication El Mundo as the Best Logistics Masters Degree in Spain, for the fourth year running. The 10-month, full-time program...
A LA VANGUARDIA El aula digital sobre cadena de suministro del MIT ya está lista para el lanzamiento global El 30 de septiembre de 2014 es un día crucial para la formación en cadena de suministro. SCx, el innovador programa en línea desarrollado por el Centro para el Transporte y...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #54 MIT CTL Jim Rice “Port Resilience and Emerging Decision Framework Toolkit, USCG Sector San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA, July 3. “Port Resilience and Emerging Decision Framework Toolkit,” USCG Sector Houston, TX, USA, July 8. “Big Data and Innovation – Resilience in America’s Ports,” American...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #54 MIT CTL Chris Caplice “ A Better Approach to Infrastructure Planning,” Harvard Business Review Blog Network, July 10. Co-authored with Dr. Shardul Phadnis Roberto Perez-Franco “ Is Your Supply Chain Strategy Holding Back Innovation?” Supply Chain Management Review, July/August 2014 Yossi Sheffi “World Cup Plays...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 54. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. El rápido crecimiento de los negocios digitales es un importante avance en el campo de la gestión de la cadena de suministro, y es lo que se debatirá en la mesa redonda del MIT CTL titulada Doing Business...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 54. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. El coste de servicio (o coste para atender al cliente) es una medida financiera clave que permite a las empresas decidir cómo segmentar los mercados y atender a los clientes de forma rentable. No obstante, la forma en...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 54. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. ¿De qué forma una cadena de suministro puede seguir mejorando en un entorno competitivo cambiante? No hay una sola respuesta, pero la tecnología y el talento son los dos elementos clave en la búsqueda de la mejora continua...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 54. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. El informe de la Last-Mile Delivery Roundtable (Mesa redonda sobre las entregas de último tramo), del Centro para el Transporte y la Logística del MIT (MIT CTL), ya está disponible para las empresas asociadas a MIT CTL Supply...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 54. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. El 30 de septiembre de 2014, la formación en cadena de suministro dará un paso decisivo para adentrarse en la era digital con el inicio de SCx, un programa de formación en línea desarrollado por el Centro para...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 54. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. El primer European Forum of Logistics Clusters se celebrará el 14 y 15 de octubre de 2014 en Bruselas (Bélgica). Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC) es miembro de Alliance for Logistics Innovation through Collaboration in Europe, entidad organizadora del...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 54. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. Los directivos sénior y de nivel medio tendrán la oportunidad de descubrir los retos de la estrategia de cadena de suministro en el curso para ejecutivos «Driving Supply Chain Advantage» (Cómo impulsar la ventaja de la cadena de...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 54. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. El reto del liderazgo en la cadena de suministro es el tema de un seminario previsto para el 15 de octubre de 2014 en el campus del MIT, en Cambridge (Massachusetts). Organizado por el Centro para el Transporte...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 54. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. El profesor Dr. Rogelio Oliva, del Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC), fue galardonado con el Skinner Teaching Innovation Award por la Production and Operations Management Society (POMS). El galardón premia los enfoques innovadores en la formación en operaciones de...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 54. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. El programa del MIT Zaragoza Master of Engineering in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (ZLOG) impartido por el Zaragoza Logistics Center ha sido reconocido por la publicación El Mundo como el mejor máster en logística de España, por...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 54. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. Una empresa de café de alta calidad de China tiene una amplia red de distribución que distribuye el producto siete días a la semana. Sin embargo, la tasa media diaria de escasez de existencias en las tiendas situadas...
Increasing the pace of product innovation in the consumer packaged goods industry can be achieved by implementing new technologies and streamlining processes. Our research is conducted primarily through extensive interviews with 3D printing experts and stakeholders in product development of a leading cosmetics manufacturer. We identify a framework where additive...
Being able to quickly adapt to changes in the business environment has been widely acknowledged as essential for sustainable success by business leaders. Scenario planning is recognized as an effective tool used to explore ambiguous business environment dynamics over a long time horizon and identifying ways to translate uncertainty into...
Economic instability and poor or lacking physical infrastructure are some of the factors that contribute to price inflation along the supply chain in Zimbabwe. Our research, in partnership with one of the Big Pharma companies, addressed two intertwined yet distinct research areas. On one hand, we evaluated how price reductions...
The research objective was to provide a directional sense of some key considerations for business continuity planning (BCP) specific to a company's downstream distribution operations in the U.S. This was achieved via a two-pronged strategy comprised of quantitative and qualitative elements to complement insights gained from literature review. By quantitatively...
The concept of using different supply chain strategies for different products or product families is a fairly simple component of supply chain management. This practice, known as SKU segmentation, is widely used by many companies. However, most research and success stories involve a relatively stable portfolio of brands and products...
The thesis attempts to answer the question which is commonly asked by retailers and manufacturers – what’s the best way to deliver a product to the store? Specifically the thesis tries to understand and evaluate the impact on transportation and safety stock when a manufacturer transitions from a 100% DC...
