Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #25. Read all articles in this issue How to deliver high-quality medicines at affordable prices to communities in developing countries has long been a difficult challenge for humanitarian organizations. Ground-breaking research into the supply chains that support such programs could provide some solutions. In both the...
Articles Include: Making the Right Connections Between Supply Chain and Strategy How to play matchmaker when corporate strategy and supply chain fall out Choose the Right Tools When Transformation Is Your Goal Looking to make big changes? Beware of Six Sigma and Lean MCL Finds Life After Lean How one...
Articles Include: Does Your Supply Chain Deliver Shareholder Value? Connect the dots between the supply chain and stock price Three Ways to Avoid the Credit Crunch Here’s how to buck the downturn and finance your global supply chains Career Paths That Bridge the Credibility Gap A ladder to the top...
A panel of current MLOG and ZLOG students discuss how their hope to help change the world through supply chain led them to choose practical, real-world thesis projects that range from how to develop an energy-efficient supply chain to how to effectively deliver healthcare and medical treatments to patients in...
A panel of MLOG and ZLOG alumni discuss why they chose the consulting field, what benefits and challenges come along with that career choice, and how their MLOG or ZLOG education prepared them for the world of supply chain consulting.
Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #24. Read All Articles In This Issue The carbon footprint of a product is the carbon dioxide emitted across the supply chain for a single unit of that product. Carbon labels indicate how much carbon is used over the life cycle of a product; information that...
Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #24. Read all articles in this issue Thought leaders from Intel, JohnsonDiversey, MIT and Nokia will map the development of supply chains over the next decade at the Crossroads 2008: The Next Ten Years conference, March 27, 2008, in Cambridge, MA. The annual Crossroads conference is...
Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #24. Read all articles in this issue What is the difference between short-term and long-term? At a December retreat, the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics’ (MIT-CTL) Demand Management Interest Group (DMIG) considered the difference not as a philosophical question but in the context of demand...
Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #24. Read all articles in this issue MIT-CTL is planning to re-launch Sensors Watch, the Supply Chain 2020 (SC2020) blog, in order to incorporate some new functionality. The re-launch is scheduled for February 2008. SC2020 is a multi-year research program to identify and analyze the factors...
Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #24. Read all articles in this issue Supply chain education has come a long way over the last 10 years, and its development path promises to be even steeper over the next decade. Jim Kellso, Senior Supply Chain Master at Intel, is one of the originators...
Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #24. Read all articles in this issue Aligning a company’s corporate and supply chain strategies makes it stronger by bringing the organization in line with its competitive goals. But alignment is not the only payoff, as users of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT-CTL)...
MIT CTL’s Demand Management Interest Group (DMIG) was established to create an open exchange of ideas, practices and processes among supply chain professionals and academics. The research group focuses on strategies, principles, and methods that can be leveraged to optimally match supply and demand over time. In December 2007, Larry...
For more than thirty years, the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT-CTL) has been a world leader in supply chain management research and education. The Center’s world-renowned research programs directly involve over 75 faculty and research staff from a wide range of academic disciplines, as well as researchers in...
Articles Include: Supply Chains That Hold the Key to Unlocking Silos Silo-busting usually provokes lots of nods and yawns. Here are some ways to put supply chain on the job and get results. Decisions, Decisions. . . How to Decide on Your Way to the Top Being at the top...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #23. Read all articles in this issue The wisdom of hindsight is more impressive if it’s based on observations you originally predicted. In 2004 the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT-CTL) launched the Supply Chain 2020 research program to identify and analyze the factors that...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #23. Read all articles in this issue Governments must be able to respond to disasters both natural and man-made, but what about their responsibilities during the economic recovery phase of calamities when freight and transportation systems could be crippled? New research carried out by the MIT...
All organizations - public and private – are affected by unplanned emergencies and disruptions. Recent examples including the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Nisqually Earthquake (2001), Hurricane Katrina (2005), Seattle’s Wind Storm (2006) and Minneapolis’ 35W bridge collapse (August 2007) have raised the need for organizations to prepare for these events...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #23. Read all articles in this issue The annual networking retreat of MIT-CTL’s Demand Management Interest Group (DMIG) will take place on December 11, 2007, at the MIT Faculty Club, Cambridge, MA. In addition to discussing the Center’s latest research in demand management, attendees at the...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #23. Read all articles in this issue In many supply chain applications of radio frequency identification (RFID), the costs have exceeded the savings, one reason why the technology’s growth has failed to meet early expectations. But companies might be asking the wrong questions when evaluating RFID...
An offer for free parts when something breaks is a great idea for the customer. But good supply chain managers know that practice encourages bad behavior and ultimately may cost the company more than it earns.
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #23. Read all articles in this issue MIT-CTL has launched its Partner Gateway, an online resource available only to the Center’s partner organizations. The MIT-CTL Partner Gateway provides partners with exclusive access to an exhaustive list of the Center’s research materials - from papers to presentations...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #23. Read all articles in this issue If the nation’s healthcare system had a 900-pound gorilla pushing innovation like Wal-Mart does in the retail industry, then it would be better at implementing more efficient processes and leveraging technology. This is one of the differences between healthcare...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #23. Read all articles in this issue MIT-CTL Director Yossi Sheffi has been appointed Director of the Engineering Systems Division (ESD) at MIT, a position that will allow him to play a more strategic role in the development of MIT research and education. Sheffi will also...
