Supply Chain Frontiers issue #57 Registration is open for Supply Chain and Logistics Fundamentals, the Summer SC1x online course offered by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL). MIT CTL launched MIT’s first supply chain MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), CTL.SC1x, on September 29th 2014. SC1x is the...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #57 In today’s fast-paced business environment supply chain managers must take every opportunity to update their skills and knowledge in order to stay ahead of the curve. The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics’ (MIT CTL) Executive Education course, Supply Chain Management: Driving Strategic Advantage, provides...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #57 The Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (MISI) will host the 2015 International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) conference. Scheduled to take place On August 24 to August 26 this year in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, this will be the first time that the event has...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #57 Dr. David Gonsalvez will become Rector of the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (MISI) on July 1st, 2015. He will succeed Dr. Mahender Singh, who is stepping down at MISI CEO and Rector on June 30, 2015. Gonsalvez was previously Professor of Supply Chain...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #57 Every year graduating master’s students from the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics’ Supply Chain Management program present their thesis projects to members of the Center’s Supply Chain Exchange. This year the one-day event, called Research Fest, takes place on May 21, in Cambridge, MA...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #57 MIT CTL Edgar Blanco “Megacity Logistics,” Supply Chain Management Driving Strategic Advantage, MIT CTL Executive Education Course, Cambridge, MA, US, June 11 Chris Caplice "Preparing for the Future" Fort Worth, TX for BNSF AVP Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, TX, US, "Transportation Modeling and Trends" Chainalytics...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #57 MIT CTL Chris Caplice “Disruptive Innovation in the Classroom,” Supply Chain Management Review, May/June. Jarrod Goentzel “Supply Chains in Crisis,” Inside Supply Management Supplement, May. Yossi Sheffi “Speed Bumps on the Road to Vehicle Automation,” Linkedin Influencer blog post, April. MISI David Gonsalvez “The Top...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #57 If Colombia is to realize its vast economic potential, the country must improve the efficiency of its freight transportation systems. But the national and regional government agencies responsible for infrastructure planning and construction lack the knowledge required to achieve the required improvements. The Center for...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #57 This year’s Zaragoza Logistics Center Summer Academy is scheduled to take place on July 1 to July 10 in Zaragoza, Spain. The Academy is a forum for postgraduate students from around the world that promotes advances in supply chain management and associated research. Now in...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #57 Many supply chain executives believe in, and hope for, a single generally accepted truckload (TL) rate for any given lane. This is typically referred to as the market rate for a lane, and is found by taking the average or median of a sample of...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #57 The Zaragoza Logistics Center’s Global Supply Chain Research Forum 2015 will take place on May 25 to 26 in Zaragoza, Spain. Two events are planned as part of the Forum. The Research Fest on May 25, 2015 gives master’s students the opportunity to present their...
Summary Report for the Becoming Location-Aware: State of Art and Science for End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility Roundtable held on May 12, 2015, at MIT.
Crossroads 2015: Lessons from a Worldwide Virtual Classroom Speaker: Chris Caplice, Executive Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
Summary Report for the Crossroads 2015 held on March 24, 2015 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 about how to...
ASPECTOS DE VANGUARDIA El poder de los trabajos informales para impulsar la innovación Los proyectos no oficiales destinados a convertir las ideas en nuevos productos y procesos, popularmente conocidos como trabajos informales, pueden ser una importante fuente de innovación si cuentan con el apoyo adecuado, según comenta Peter Gloor, un...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 56. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. Las empresas europeas que siguen luchando contra los elevados costes del capital a largo plazo y el acceso limitado al crédito bancario están recurriendo a un dudoso aliado financiero: sus clientes. Un acuerdo financiero, denominado confirming (CF), recurre...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 56. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. La industria logística china está adquiriendo cada vez más importancia y se está desarrollando rápidamente, con vistas a respaldar al sector nacional de producción. Este crecimiento viene ampliamente espoleado por el gobierno chino, que tiene el objetivo de...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 56. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. Los cambios reguladores son una vía de doble sentido para las empresas: pueden ser disruptivos, pero también pueden forzar la revisión de prácticas aceptadas que arroje nueva luz sobre la eficiencia operativa. Esto es lo que le sucedió...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 56. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. Una nueva forma de entregar mercancías en ciudades congestionadas, un sistema revolucionario de almacenamiento de energía y un método para impulsar la innovación mediante los proyectos de trabajo informales son algunos de los desarrollos que los profesionales de...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 56. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. El 20 de febrero de 2015, en Barcelona (España), tendrá lugar un curso ejecutivo de un día de duración, titulado From Big Data to Action, Supply Chain Control Towers y organizado por el Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC), Zaragoza...
