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Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #27. Read all articles in this issue Five companies have become strategic partners of the Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (CLI). Based in Bogota, Colombia, CLI is part of the MIT Global Scale Network and is expanding its base of corporate sponsors in Latin America. The...
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Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #27. Read all articles in this issue Emerging markets in Asia, Europe and Latin America are increasingly important for global supply chains; they offer not only lower sourcing costs but also a booming customer base. However, along with these opportunities come several supply chain challenges, such...
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Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #27. Read all articles in this issue How to compete in an uncertain business environment will be the central theme of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) Major Session and Hot Topics session on October 7, 2008 at the Council of Supply Chain...
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Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #27. Read all articles in this issue The supply chains that support retailing in India will be the subject of a major MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics conference on October 29, 2008 on the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA. The “Building Retail Supply Chains in...
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Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #27. Read all articles in this issue In these difficult economic times there is no shortage of issues to occupy supply chain managers, but two in particular, rising fuel costs and a dramatic decline in truck carrying capacity, figured largely in the MIT Center for Transportation...
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Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #27. Read all articles in this issue Mobile phones are moving into supply chain management, particularly in emerging markets where companies need a communications technology that can cover a widely dispersed customer base. In Latin America, for example, mobile phones are improving supply chain visibility in...
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Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #27. Read all articles in this issue The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT-CTL) has launched a video library, on its website, that is open to the public at large. The library also contains material available only to MIT-CTL partners, such as slides from the...
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Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #26. Read all articles in this issue A report titled “A Guide to the Carbon-Efficient Supply Chain” has been published by Newark, NJ-based publisher IOMA, which also publishes MIT-CTL’s newsletter Supply Chain Strategy. The report includes contributions from the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics’ Carbon-Efficient...
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Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #26. Read all articles in this issue The benefits of supply chain collaboration are being captured in Latin America with an electronic catalog called CABASnet. A four-month case study of the service was presented by Bogota, Colombia-based logistics company LOGyCA at the MIT-CTL Crossroads 2008 conference...
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Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #26. Read all articles in this issue Soaring fuel costs have put freight transportation in the spotlight, but even before the current furor over rising oil prices the challenges of moving shipments through congested networks represented a major issue for supply chain managers. The MIT Center...
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Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #26. Read all articles in this issue The Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC), Zaragoza, Spain, has announced a series of academic activities for this summer: its first PhD Summer Academy and two executive education courses. The PhD Summer Academy 2008 is administered under the MIT-Zaragoza Program at...
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Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #26. Read all articles in this issue The Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process has been around for more than two decades, but it could offer new opportunities for mitigating and removing supply chain risk. Research carried out at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics...
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Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #26. Read all articles in this issue There are a limited number of seats available at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics’ (MIT-CTL) Executive Education course this June, and individuals who want to attend are urged to register as soon as possible. The course, Supply...
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Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #26. Read all articles in this issue How valuable is in-transit shipment visibility? The answer depends on the cost of the technology involved and the inherent need to keep tabs on the goods being shipped. A joint research project including the MIT Center for Transportation &...
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Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #25. Read all articles in this issue To get a sense of how far the supply chain profession has come in recent years, look no further than its educational programs. When MIT-CTL’s Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) program was launched 10 years ago it set...
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Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #25. Read all articles in this issue Ten years is a long time in the life of supply chain – whether in the past or the future. We asked two leading professionals, Jake Barr, Director, Manufacturing, Planning & Logistics, The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), and...
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Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #25. Read all articles in this issue It is not difficult to envisage a supply chain for a physical product, but how about one for a far less tangible item such as renewable energy? A research project at the Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC), Zaragoza, Spain, is...
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Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #25. Read all articles in this issue The initial cost and a lack of clear cut returns are two impediments to the adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and related Electronic Product Code (EPC) standards. Pioneering work underway in Colombia by Bogota-based logistics company LOGyCA...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...