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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #13. Read all articles in this issue. When implementing change do not assume that your loudest critics are the ones most likely to derail your plans; quieter, relatively passive opponents represent a more serious threat. Tom Carpenter, Vice President of Transportation at International Paper, gave this...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #13. Read all articles in this issue. Canada’s insufficient strategic airlift capability is not only impacting its military but also undermining the country’s entire economy. That is the viewpoint of current MLOG student Herman Kurapov in his paper that was recently published in Canadian American Strategic...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #13. Read all articles in this issue. Cargo theft costs the freight industry and its customers billions of dollars in lost revenue, despite countermeasures such as fortifying containers, employing dual vehicle drivers, and escorting valuable shipments. Researchers at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics are...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #12. Read all articles in this issue. Influenza causes some 35,000 deaths and 100 million lost working days annually in the United States, yet a vaccine to fight the illness is often in short supply when the flu season is at its peak. Researchers at the...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #12. Read all articles in this issue Supply chain management has grown beyond its operational roots to take on a more strategic role, a transition that can be attributed to the strong impact of integrated SCM on companies' operational and financial performance. Enterprises such as Wal-Mart...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #12. Read all articles in this issue. John C.W. Parsons, a 2004 graduate of CTL's Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) program, was selected as co-winner of the case competition at the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) annual meeting held last month...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #12. Read all articles in this issue. The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics will begin 2006 with an executive education course that offers leading edge ideas and research combined with new networking opportunities. The "Leadership Supply Chain Management" course will run from January 4-6, 2006...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #12. Read all articles in this issue The MIT Supply Chain 2020 research project will use a process for mapping the future of supply chains that is based on Royal Dutch Shell's well-known scenario planning methodology and widely used by successful Fortune 500 companies. Larry Lapide...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #12. Read all articles in this issue Environmental regulations are changing the way supply chains are designed and managed. The problem is that the sheer number of regulations, other influences such as changing consumer sentiment, and the complexity of global trade, makes it difficult for companies...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #11. Read all articles in this issue. Companies are still learning the hard way that unsound supplier relationships frequently lead to higher costs and crippling supply chain disruptions. "We continue to see companies that neglect to put in place a robust strategy for how they deal...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #11. Read all articles in this issue. Emergency relief agencies and industrial manufacturers are very different organizations, but when disaster strikes they face similar supply chain challenges. This September they came together in Stanford, CA, to share best practices and learn some important lessons about disruption...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #11. Read all articles in this issue. The recently published book written by CTL Director Yossi Sheffi, The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage, is ranked sixth on a list of top 25 best-selling business books for September 2005. The list was compiled by 800-CEO-READ...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #11. Read all articles in this issue. Measures introduced in the United States since the 9/11 terrorist attacks have made supply chains more secure, now this effort is moving to a global level with an initiative to implement security standards worldwide. "This has the potential to...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #10. Read all articles in this issue Best practices have served a purpose in the quest for supply chain excellence, but companies need to shift their focus to other measures if they are to meet the competitive challenge of changing markets. This is one of the...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #10. Read all articles in this issue. With the U.S. Gulf Coast still reeling from Hurricane Katrina, a one-day seminar on improving the effectiveness of major international disaster efforts took place on September 8, 2005, at the Stanford Graduate Business School, Stanford, CA. The event, "Effective...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #10. Read all articles in this issue. The MIT Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) program has introduced a Leadership Track to provide some of the leadership skills students will need when they become senior executives. The new track has been added to MLOG in response...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #10. Read all articles in this issue. How can organizations prepare for crisis situations such as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina? They can build resilient supply chains that are capable of withstanding and recovering quickly from unexpected disruptions. In his book The Resilient Enterprise, published on...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #10. Read all articles in this issue. For the third year in a row US News & World Report ranks Massachusetts Institute of Technology first among graduate business programs in the area of logistics and supply chain management. The ranking appears in the 2006 edition of...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #10. Read all articles in this issue. Building on the success of last year's inaugural class, the second MIT-Zaragoza Master in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (ZLOG) class has grown to 19 students with an average of more than four years industry experience. New faculty and...
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Published in Financial Times Scores of children were disappointed last Christmas as demand for Robo-sapiens, the must-have toy of 2004, outstripped supply. Many of their parents had their own moment of disappointment too, as the fashionable iPod mini flew off the shelves faster than it could be replaced....
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #9. Read all articles in this issue. The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL) has launched a major initiative to develop solutions to the freight congestion problems that threaten to overwhelm the nation's transportation system. The first stage is an industry survey that CTL is...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #9. Read all articles in this issue. Two Research Associates have joined CTL to work on the Center's expanding portfolio of supply chain research projects. Mahender Singh received his PhD from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he taught Operations Management. He is a graduate of...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #9. Read all articles in this issue. Transportation has become a more expensive item on the balance sheet, encouraging companies to be more judicious when using these services. A store delivery model developed by Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) graduate, Chris Kerslake, is helping a...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #9. Read all articles in this issue. The first class to graduate from the Zaragoza Masters of Engineering in Logistics & Supply Chain Management (ZLOG) degree program received a warm welcome to the profession from John Allan, CEO of global supply chain management company Exel. "You...
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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #9. Read all articles in this issue. Graduates from this year's Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) program left MIT with jobs at major companies and a median salary of $ 97,000--59% higher than their salary levels at the time of joining the program. MLOG 2005...