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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
Articles Include: Get Ready for Disruptive Demographics Don’t be blindsided by the changes you will have to make as the age profile of your work-force rises Demand Management as a Succession Strategy Managing demand meets recruitment as companies struggle to replace top-tier supply chain managers Look Beyond Compliance for Supply...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #22. Read all articles in this issue Memo to Tim Cook, Chief Operating Officer of consumer electronics company Apple: if you are looking for an additional sales channel for your notebook products, put specialty electronics retailers at the top of your list. That is the main...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #22. Read all articles in this issue Products such as appliances carry labels that show consumers how much energy the units consume during operation, so why not introduce a similar system for the amount of carbon emitted during a product’s manufacture and delivery? It’s an attractive...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #22. Read all articles in this issue The United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), which provides air, land and sea transportation for the Department of Defense, and MIT’s Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL), have joined forces to create a fellowship program that will generate military leaders...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #22. Read all articles in this issue Death and taxes are two of life’s certainties; another is that world populations are aging. The resultant demographic shifts will have a profound impact on the work place and the way firms operate. As these age-related changes reshape organizations...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #22. Read all articles in this issue The line-up is complete for the Hot Topics session on disruptive demographics organized by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT-CTL) for the Council of Supply Management Professionals (CSCMP) annual conference in Philadelphia in October. The session will...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #22. Read all articles in this issue Innovative ways to use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in the supply chain is the subject of a symposium on October 10, 2007, in Cambridge, Mass., that is co-sponsored by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics’ Supply Chain...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #21. Read all articles in this issue Domestic auto suppliers in Japan sustained damage from the 6.8-magnitude earthquake that hit the country this July, causing shut downs at major manufacturers such as Toyota and Honda, because the supply of key components was interrupted. The manufacturers’ just-in-time...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #21. Read all articles in this issue The 2007 Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) Research Journal is now available. The seven papers in the Journal were selected from the theses submitted by the MLOG Class of 2007 at MIT. The articles, written as executive summaries...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #21. Read all articles in this issue Supply Chain Strategy, the influential monthly newsletter co-produced by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL), has a new publisher: New York City-based Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA). August 2007 will be the first issue to be...
