Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 52. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. Un proyecto de investigación llamado LOGIPRO-CONTROL que comenzó este mes de enero en el Zaragoza Logistics Center (Zaragoza, España) está ampliando los conocimientos creados por un proyecto previo, CO2Logistic, con la intención de aumentar la funcionalidad de una...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 52. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. Un proyecto final GCLOG (certificado de posgrado en logística y gestión de la cadena de suministro, Graduate Certificate in Logistics and Supply Chain Management) encaminado a encontrar la solución óptima de transporte para un exportador de azúcar brasileño...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 52. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. Supply Chain Frontiers , n.º 52: Presentaciones MIT CTL Yossi Sheffi «Supply Chain Management in the Future», Stifel Transportation and Logistics Conference, West Palm Beach (FL, EE. UU.), 11 de febrero. «Logistics Clusters as a Jobs Engine», TMP...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #52 A GCLOG (Graduate Certificate in Logistics and Supply Chain Management) capstone project to find the optimum transportation solution for a Brazilian sugar exporter underlines the importance of supply chain management as a component of business strategy. Author of the project, Vanessa Azevedo, is studying for...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #52 If there was a league table of desirable supply chain attributes, then "agility" would be somewhere near the top. But what exactly is supply chain agility and how can it be evaluated? Dr. David Gligor, Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (MISI), is engaged in...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #52 Robots have been an integral part of the industrial landscape for many years. Advances in the technology are now making these units more flexible and versatile. The upshot from a supply chain perspective is that the new generation of factory robots makes production systems more...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #52 In order to identify supply chain network synergies companies are looking outside their own organizations to create joint benefits in partnership with other trading partners. This is one reason why a concept that has been around for some time, co-loading, is becoming a viable option...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #52 The Design Anywhere, Make Anywhere, Deliver Anywhere conference organized by the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (MISI) will explore the future of supply chain management. The event will take place on March 20, 2014, on the MISI campus in Malaysia. An unprecedented transformation in...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #52 A research project called LOGIPRO-CONTROL that started this January at the Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza, Spain, is building on the knowledge created by a previous project, CO2Logistic, to expand the functionality of a tool for calculating carbon footprints. In addition to performing carbon footprint calculations...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #52 MIT CTL Chris Caplice "Impact of Macro Trends on Supply Chains: Digitization of Products," Supply Chain @ MIT Blog, January 30 "Impact of Macro Trends on Supply Chains: Diversification of Sales Channels," Supply Chain @ MIT Blog, January 16 "Impact of Macro Trends on Supply...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #52 The unemployment rate in Europe remains stubbornly high at around 12% and in Spain is over 25%, yet the current jobless rate for graduates of the MIT-Zaragoza Master in Logistics and Supply Chain Management program in Zaragoza, Spain, is zero. The program's exceptional performance is...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #52 A unique opportunity to learn about innovations that could shape the future of supply chain management awaits individuals who sign up for the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics' annual conference, Crossroads, on March 25, 2014, on the MIT campus, Cambridge, MA. World-leading experts from...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #52 The Basel ZLOG Alumni Group organized a workshop on January 17, 2014 to share best practices in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. The event took place in the headquarters of Roche Technical Operations, Basel, Switzerland. The Alumni Group is composed of 15 graduates of the...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #53 MIT CTL Chris Caplice "Balancing Robustness and Flexibility in Transportation Networks," Supply Chain Brain, April. With Francisco Jauffred. Jim Rice "Perseverance Pays in the Innovation Game," Supply Chain Management Review Innovation Strategies column, May/June. With Ashley Dorna. "An Initial Exploration of port capacity bottlenecks in...
Summary Report for the Environmentally Sustainable Supply Chains Roundtable held on June 27, 2013 at MIT. This report is available for MIT CTL partners only . If you are an MIT CTL partner, please log in or create an account to download this paper. If you'd like to learn more...
86 posters from students of the MIT Global Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) Network that were presented during Research Expo 2014. PDF Format, 26.5mb
Since the advent of the Internet in the 1990s, there has been a significant increase in online shopping in the United States. As online shopping keeps growing, so does the online retail industry. Multiple players are investing either through pure online retailing or by click and mortar retailing, which also...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51 The next MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics Crossroads conference will take place on March 25, 2014, on the MIT campus, Cambridge, MA. Launched 10 years ago to explore the intersection between supply chain and corporate strategy, this annual event has become a leading platform...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51 When shipping product into a country as large and complex as Brazil, the choice of transportation routes has a critical impact on supply chain costs. Four GCLOG students* developed a decision support system that enables a leading luxury goods company to determine the optimal routes...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51 A new book from Dr. Albert Tan, Director of Education at the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation, titled Supply Chain Process Reengineering (Pearson Malaysia, 2013), provides a roadmap to the planning and implementation of SPR projects. As Tan points out in his book, SPR...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51 Large banks represent a weak link in the financial supply chain for small and medium sized (SME) enterprises in Asia. The problem also hinders the physical supply chain in that SMEs are key drivers of business growth in the region. The Malaysia Institute for Supply...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51 The Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC), Zaragoza, Spain, celebrated its 10 th anniversary this October. In addition to becoming one of Europe’s leading centers for supply chain education and research, ZLC is a key player in a regional strategy to use logistics clusters as an engine...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51 How do you put a value on avoiding a problem that seemingly no longer exists because you’ve already spent money on eliminating it? This is the classic Catch-22 dilemma faced by many corporate security managers when trying to justify further investments in steeling the supply...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51 MIT CTL Bruce Arntzen “Implementing Resilient Risk Management,” CSCMP Annual Conference, Denver, CO, US, October 21. Edgar Blanco “Carbon Efficiency of Humanitarian Supply Chains: Evidence from French Red Cross Operations,” Logistics Management 2013, Bremen, Germany, September 11-13. With P. Oberhofer and A. Craig. "The Environmental...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51 MIT CTL Edgar Blanco “Selection of Tailored Practices for Supply Chain Management,” International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 33 No. 8, 2013, pp.1040-1074. With A. C. Barros and A. P. Barbosa-Pvoa. “Estimating the CO2 Intensity of Intermodal Transportation,” Transportation Research Part D: Transport...
