Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51 The Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC), Zaragoza, Spain, celebrated its 10 th anniversary this October. In addition to becoming one of Europe’s leading centers for supply chain education and research, ZLC is a key player in a regional strategy to use logistics clusters as an engine...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51 How do you put a value on avoiding a problem that seemingly no longer exists because you’ve already spent money on eliminating it? This is the classic Catch-22 dilemma faced by many corporate security managers when trying to justify further investments in steeling the supply...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51 MIT CTL Bruce Arntzen “Implementing Resilient Risk Management,” CSCMP Annual Conference, Denver, CO, US, October 21. Edgar Blanco “Carbon Efficiency of Humanitarian Supply Chains: Evidence from French Red Cross Operations,” Logistics Management 2013, Bremen, Germany, September 11-13. With P. Oberhofer and A. Craig. "The Environmental...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51 MIT CTL Edgar Blanco “Selection of Tailored Practices for Supply Chain Management,” International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 33 No. 8, 2013, pp.1040-1074. With A. C. Barros and A. P. Barbosa-Pvoa. “Estimating the CO2 Intensity of Intermodal Transportation,” Transportation Research Part D: Transport...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51 A team of students from the MIT SCALE Network’s four supply chain management graduate programs took first place at the finals of the 5th annual Global Challenge of The Fresh Connection, a supply chain simulation competition designed to engage participants in making strategic and tactical...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51 The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics’ (MIT CTL) acclaimed executive education course, Supply Chain Management: Driving Strategic Advantage, will take place on January 7 – 10, 2014, in Cambridge, MA. Taught by distinguished MIT faculty and researchers, this is a fast-paced mix of simulations...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51 Developing sustainable transportation solutions for second-tier cities in Asia, Latin America, and the Mediterranean region of Europe is the focus of a research project funded by the European Commission. A number of research centers are participating in the project, including the Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. El Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC), en Zaragoza, celebró su 10. o aniversario el pasado mes de octubre. El ZLC es uno de los principales centros en Europa para la formación e investigación en la cadena de suministro, así como...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. Un equipo de estudiantes de los cuatro programas de posgrado en cadena de suministro de la red SCALE del MIT ganó la final del 5.º Reto Global de The Fresh Connection, un concurso de simulación de la cadena de...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. ¿Cómo se fija el valor de la prevención de un problema que parece que ya no existe porque ya se ha dedicado dinero a eliminarlo? Se trata del clásico dilema del callejón sin salida con el que se encuentran...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. Un nuevo libro del Dr. Albert Tan, director de Educación del Instituto de Innovación de la Cadena de Suministro de Malasia, titulado Supply Chain Process Reengineering (Pearson Malaysia, 2013), proporciona una hoja de ruta para la planificación e implementación...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. El aclamado curso de formación para ejecutivos del Centro para el Transporte y la Logística del MIT (MIT CTL), Gestión de la cadena de suministro: cómo impulsar la ventaja estratégica, tendrá lugar del 7 al 10 de enero de...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. Supply Chain Frontiers , n.º 51: Presentaciones MIT CTL Bruce Arntzen «Implementing Resilient Risk Management», Conferencia anual CSCMP, Denver, Colorado (EUA), 21 de octubre. Edgar Blanco «Carbon Efficiency of Humanitarian Supply Chains: Evidence from French Red Cross Operations», Proceedings...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. Los grandes bancos representan un eslabón frágil en la cadena de suministro financiera para las pequeñas y medianas empresas (pymes) en Asia. El problema también obstaculiza la cadena de suministro física, ya que las pymes son motores clave del...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. Al enviar productos a un país tan grande y complejo como Brasil, la elección de las rutas de transporte tiene un impacto decisivo en los costes de la cadena de suministro. Cuatro estudiantes* de GCLOG han desarrollado un sistema...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #51. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. El proyecto de investigación financiado por la Comisión Europea se centra en el desarrollo de soluciones de transporte sostenibles para ciudades de segundo nivel en Asia, América Latina y la zona mediterránea de Europa. Varios centros de investigación participan...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #50 Remember the early days of cell phones when a new model seemed to appear every week and each one looked dramatically different? This is typical of a new product market. Initially, wildly different variants are released and tested in the market, but eventually they converge...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #50 While it is impossible to predict the future with certainty, we can envision plausible outcomes and prepare for them. This is the essence of scenario planning. A research project at the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program at the Zaragoza Logistics Center in Spain, used the methodology...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #50 The Megacity Logistics Lab presented the initial results of a major project to create an atlas of logistics demands in large urban areas in a special presentation at MIT on July 24, 2013. An MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) research initiative, the...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #50 The Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation’s (CLI) class of 2014 spent three weeks at MIT this July for their first session of the Graduate Certificate in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (GCLOG) program. This year’s CLI class consists of 39 students from 17 universities across...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #50 A major impediment to the flow of freight traffic in megacities – cities with a population of at least 10 million people – is misguided regulation. The best way to analyze the effects is to view them at ground level. This is what an MIT...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #50 Twenty-five senior managers from Kazakhstan Zemir Zholy (KTZ), the national railway company of Kazakhstan, were schooled in intermodal transportation at a one-week executive education course organized by the Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC). The course took place on June 17-21, 2013, and was co-taught by Dr...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #50 Asia accounts for an estimated 86% of the reported disaster victims worldwide [1]. How can the region build the capacity it needs to respond effectively to these crises? This was one of the main talking points at the 2013 Health & Humanitarian Logistics Conference, hosted...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #50 Developing leadership skills and managing supply chain talent will be the focus of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) Supply Chain Leadership workshop on October 3, 2013, on the MIT campus. Topics to be covered at the event include the mental processes...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #50 The Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC), Zaragoza, Spain is 10 years old, and is planning a series of events to mark this important milestone. Since ZLC’s inception in 2003, both the Center and PLAZA – Europe’s largest logistics park – have become major centers of logistics...
