Supply Chain Frontiers issue #17. Read all articles in this issue The future of supply chain management will be a central theme of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics’ executive education course in January 2007. Presentations by industry thought leader Bill Copacino and expert on the future of work...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #16. Read all articles in this issue. If the healthcare supply chain was a patient it would be in intensive care. Under stress from too much complexity, wasteful practices, and the competing interests of stakeholders, it is in urgent need of radical surgery – but where...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #16. Read all articles in this issue. The 2006-2007 academic year is off to a flying start. The 2007 classes for the Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) Program at MIT and the Master of Engineering in Logistics & Supply Chain Management (ZLOG) Program at the...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #16. Read all articles in this issue. The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL) has launched the Demand Management Research Group (DMRG) to develop innovative strategies and methods that can help supply chain managers optimally match supply and demand over all time horizons, from real-time...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #16. Read all articles in this issue. When Hurricane Katrina laid waste to the Gulf Coast region, U.S. disaster relief operations were put to the test. With neighborhoods under water, roads washed out and lives on the line, humanitarian agencies were confronted with the logistical challenges...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #16. Read all articles in this issue. In retailing it is almost second nature: stimulate sales of slow-moving items by marking down the price. It is called demand shaping, and companies such as Dell have refined and developed the strategy and are now applying it in...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #16. Read all articles in this issue. The line up has been announced for the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics’ Supply Chains Driving Strategic Advantage: Managing Dynamics & Innovating the Future executive education course, January 3 – 7, 2007, in Cambridge, MA. The course is...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #16. Read all articles in this issue. Graduates of MIT’s Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) Program continue to be in high demand. By graduation day almost 90% of the MLOG 2006 class had accepted a job offer. “Companies are looking for people who have both...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #15. Read all articles in this issue. The two latest recruits to the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics’ Supply Chain Exchange, LXP and Manhattan Associates, bring the number of Exchange members to more than 40. The Exchange is a community of companies that receive special...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #15. Read all articles in this issue. The number of imports into the United States, as measured by TEU lifts, has risen from under 50 million to over 400 million in the past 26 years, and the rate of growth is increasing sharply. The capacity growth...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #15. Read all articles in this issue. Supply chains that support and reinforce corporate competitive strategy are far more powerful as drivers of success than those that focus narrowly on short-term gains such as cost savings. But supply chain professionals are often too busy with day-to-day...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #15. Read all articles in this issue. Matching supply and demand is a major challenge for companies, so the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics has launched three important initiatives to help enterprises solve some of their most pressing demand management (DM) problems. An executive roundtable...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #15. Read all articles in this issue. The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics is creating a taxonomy that will classify supply chains according to the characteristics of the businesses they support. Just as humans and whales are both classified as mammals, even disparate businesses in...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #14. Read all articles in this issue. America’s aging transportation infrastructure can’t keep up with relentless world trade growth. If it isn’t overhauled, consumers and the U.S. economy will pay a steep price. That was the warning issued by John Bowe, President of The Americas for...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #14. Read all articles in this issue. Cost pressures are fracturing the pharmaceutical supply chain in the United States, but what the reshaped chain will look like is open to debate. One outcome seems certain: the role of drug wholesalers will not be the same. The...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #14. Read all articles in this issue In the year 2025 some 25% of the US population will be over 60 years of age, and an estimated 30% of Europeans will fall into this age bracket. The former USSR will be even grayer; it is estimated...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #14. Read all articles in this issue. Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) 2006 graduate Anne Davidson was awarded a $1,000 scholarship from the New England Roundtable (NERT) of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. By providing recognition and support to students, NERT hopes to...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #14. Read all articles in this issue. Sole-sourcing, or choosing to rely on a small group of core suppliers, offer the benefits of strategic partnerships, but these strategies can also leave companies highly vulnerable in a crisis. Attendees of the 2006 At the Crossroads of Supply...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #14. Read all articles in this issue The Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC) in Zaragoza, Spain, has been designated the lead center in the country’s new National Center of Excellence in Logistics. The designation affirms ZLC’s status as a major center for supply chain education and research...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #13. Read all articles in this issue. Even though a capacity crisis in the nation’s freight transportation system threatens economic growth, collaboration between carriers, shippers, and government agencies to find solutions to the problem is “virtually non-existent,” according to a survey carried out by the MIT...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #13. Read all articles in this issue. The MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) and the Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC) have partnered with Instituto de Empresa (IE) Business School to launch a dual master’s degree program offering the opportunity to earn both an International MBA...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #13. Read all articles in this issue. The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics will stage a real-time simulation of a global emergency that severely disrupts supply chains and tests the crisis response capabilities of companies around the world. Leaders from business, government and academia are...
