February 17, 2014
News

Chris Caplice directs research to help companies around the world respond to the latest developments and disruptions in supply chain management.

Business executives spend a lot of time fretting over the supply chain, and for good reason. Making the right decisions about mobile commerce and web-based logistics can make or break a company. Yet just when you think you've got a handle on it, the supply chain goes and changes again

"In the U.S. today, consumer products are typically manufactured offshore, brought in through a handful of ports, and then delivered through a three-tier distribution system," says Dr. Chris Caplice, Executive Director for MIT's Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL). "Yet the recent trends of decentralization and digitization look like they might really disrupt this design and change the way we've been doing supply chain for 20 years. These two trends are feeding into each other, and could dramatically change the way we manufacture and distribute finished products."

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