Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39 Almost two decades after integrated demand signals (IDS) technology was introduced to improve supply chain performance, is the process finally on the brink of realizing its full potential? The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL), and the Pennsylvania State University Center for Supply...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39 The first Future Freight Flows (FFF) Workshop took place on November 4, 2010, at the headquarters of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC), in Philadelphia, PA. The event was a resounding success. The project team will now take the workshop on the road in...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39 The Center for Latin American Logistics Innovation (CLI) has a new strategic partner: Carvajal, Colombia’s leading international business group. Founded in 1904, the organization makes and distributes products in a number of sectors including paper, school and office supplies, packaging, furniture, publishing, printing, process outsourcing...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39 CLI Isabel Agudelo "Global Trends for the Development of Sustainable Transportation Services," Third National Meeting of Transportation, ENATRANS 2010, Santiago de Chile, Chile. November 3. Andrés Baquero "Reflections on the Development of Logistics Platforms for Fruits and Vegetables Supply Chain in Bogota." CODATU, Buenos Aires...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39 ZLC David Gonsalvez "Reinvigorating Your Supply Chain," article published in DILF Orientering, Journal of Danish Logistics and Purchasing Forum, October.
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39 As the field of supply chain management evolves, managers are constantly confronted with an increasing menu of practices. The importance of selecting the “right” set of supply chain practices has been recognized by academics and practitioners as fundamental to improving long-term supply chain performance. But...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39 As part of its commitment to generate knowledge that helps Colombia and Latin America to meet current and future logistics challenges, the Center for Latin American Logistics Innovation (CLI) held its second Logistics Research Festival of the year in Bogotá, Colombia, this November. During the...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39 MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) Director, Professor Yossi Sheffi, is to receive the Doctor Honoris Causa distinction of the University of Zaragoza, Spain. The honorary degree is being awarded in recognition of Sheffi’s distinguished career as a thought leader and academic in...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39 Supply chain needs to step up to the plate and take a more proactive role in increasing the profitability of businesses, according to MIT Senior Lecturer Jonathan Byrnes in his new book, Islands of Profit in a Sea of Red Ink: Why 40% of Your...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39. Lea todos artículos en este asunto . La cadena de suministro debe tomar la iniciativa para buscar formas de aumentar la rentabilidad en los negocios, según cuenta el profesor de la MIT Jonathan Byrnes en su nuevo libro, Islands of Profit in a Sea of...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39. Lea todos artículos en este asunto . Con la evolución de la gestión de la cadena de suministro, los gestores se enfrentan constantemente a una variedad cada vez mayor de posibilidades. Académicos y profesionales coinciden en la importancia fundamental de seleccionar el método “correcto” en...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39. Lea todos artículos en este asunto . Como una apuesta por la generación de conocimientos que responda a las necesidades y retos de Colombia y América Latina en términos logísticos, el Centro Latinoamericano de Innovación en Logística (CLI) realizó la segunda Feria de Investigación en...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39. Lea todos artículos en este asunto . El director del Centro para Transportes y Logística del MIT (MIT CTL), profesor Yossi Sheffi, recibirá la distinción de Doctor Honoris Causa por la Universidad de Zaragoza en España. El título honorífico se concede en reconocimiento de la...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39. Lea todos artículos en este asunto . El primer taller de flujos futuros de transporte de mercancías (Future Freight Flows, FFF) tuvo lugar el 4 de noviembre de 2010 en la sede central de la Comisión de Planificación Regional del Valle de Delaware (Delaware Valley...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39. Lea todos artículos en este asunto . El Centro Latinoamericano de Innovación en Logística - CLI, cuenta con un nuevo aliado estratégico; se trata de Carvajal, el grupo empresarial colombiano que más ha avanzado en el proceso de internacionalización de sus negocios. Actualmente, está conformado...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39. Lea todos artículos en este asunto . Los sistemas de comercialización de las emisiones de gas invernadero parecen no tener en cuenta los retos diarios que supone la gestión de las cadenas de suministro, pero la integridad de estos mercados influye en las medidas que...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39. Lea todos artículos en este asunto . Casi veinte años después de la incorporación de la tecnología de señales de demanda integradas (IDS) para mejorar el rendimiento de la cadena de suministro, ¿estará el proceso por fin a punto de descubrir todo su potencial? Para...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39. Lea todos artículos en este asunto . Una plataforma de comunicaciones basada en tecnología Web -la Plataforma Colaborativa de Transporte-, que recorta los costes del transporte y suprime los costosos retrasos en el transporte de mercancías en Colombia entrará en su fase de implementación en...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39. Lea todos artículos en este asunto . Presentaciones CLI Isabel Agudelo “Tendencias Globales para el Desarrollo de Servicios de Transporte Sostenibles”. Ponente, III Encuentro Nacional del Transporte – ENATRANS 2010. "Los Desafíos de Chile para un Transporte de Primera Clase”, Santiago de Chile, Chile. 3...
Event report for the event held by MIT CTL and The Pennsylvania State University Center for Supply Chain Research (CSCR) on November 16, 2010. This report is available for CTL partners only . If you are a CTL partner, please log in or create an account to download this paper...
Event report for the Supply Chain Talent Management Roundtable held on October 14, 2010 at MIT. This report is available for CTL partners only . If you are a CTL partner, please log in or create an account to download this paper. If you'd like to learn more about how...
This provides a first draft report of the insights from the Capturing Strategic Advantage from Integrated Demand Signals event held at MIT on November 16, 2010.
Michelle Rodríguez from Universidad del Pacífico in Perú and Marco Serrato from Tecnológico de Monterrey in México discuss how their universities have benefited from the CLI network.
We model a retailer whose supplier is subject to complete supply disruptions. We combine discrete- event uncertainty (disruptions) and continuous sources of uncertainty (stochastic demand or supply yield), which have different impacts on optimal inventory settings. This prevents optimal solutions from being found in closed form. We develop a closed-form...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #38 The debate over deep water drilling continues to rage following the Vermillion oil rig explosion in the Gulf of México this September, and BP’s announcement that the cost of its oil spill in the same waters has reached $8 billion. But there is another dimension...
