Brazil’s largest online retail platform, B2W Companhia Digital, is implementing a reengineered network design, based on a model developed in collaboration with the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL). For the first time, the company is using a network optimization model to assess its operational footprint and provide...
How innovation is reshaping freight transportation, the evolution of omni-channel supply chains, and the challenges of adopting financial best practices, are topics that concern today’s supply chain professionals – and they will be addressed in three upcoming MIT CTL events on the MIT campus. The Innovations in Transportation: Impact of...
El modo en que la innovación está redefiniendo el transporte de mercancías, la evolución de las cadenas omni-canal de suministro y los retos de adoptar buenas prácticas financieras, son asuntos que hoy en día preocupan a los profesionales de las cadenas de suministro – y se van a abordar en...
List of presentations cited in, lista de presentaciones citado en Supply Chain Frontiers #62 Back to Supply Chain Frontiers issue #62 | Regresar a Supply Chain Frontiers en Español #62 English______________________________________________________________________________________________________ CTL Chris Caplice "Cannibalizing Ourselves Before Others Eat Us: MOOC’s at MIT CTL,” CSCMP Educators Conference, Orlando, FL, USA...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 59. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. Las empresas colaboran a menudo con proveedores y clientes para reducir la huella de carbono de las operaciones de transporte de mercancías. El fabricante colombiano Corona y el Centro Latinoamericano de Innovación en Logística (CLI), con sede en...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 59. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. El consejo de Winston Churchill “nunca desperdicies una buena crisis” tiene ahora más sentido que nunca en el cambiante entorno comercial que existe hoy en día. Según explica el profesor Yossi Sheffi, Director del Centro para el Transporte...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #59 Companies often collaborate with suppliers and customers to reduce the carbon footprint of their freight operations. Colombian manufacturer Corona and the Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (CLI), based in Bogotá, Colombia, have teamed up with another important logistics player to lower carbon emissions: the truck...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #59 Winston Churchill’s advice to "never let a good crisis go to waste" is more relevant than ever in today’s volatile commercial environment. As Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, explains in his new book The Power of Resilience: How...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 58. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. El proyecto europeo Smart-Rail se inició en mayo de este año con una financiación cercana a los 6 millones de euros (casi 7 millones de dólares) procedentes de la Comisión Europea (CE), y tiene como meta que este...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 58. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. El Zaragoza Logistics Center, situado en Zaragoza (España), ha introducido dos programas de formación que ofrecen a los ejecutivos oportunidades para profundizar sus conocimientos sobre la disciplina de gestión de la cadena de suministro y los rigores de...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #58 MISI Javad Feizabadi “An Investigation in the Effectiveness of Strategy Theories in Explaining Supply Chain Performance Using Archival Data,” The 2015 International Conference on Logistics and Maritime Systems,” Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, August 27 – 29. With co-presenters Motlagh Alibakhshi, Mahender Singh...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #58 The European Smart-Rail project launched this May with nearly 6 million Euros (around $7 million) of funding from the European Commission (EC), aims to make the mode a better option for commercial freight in Europe. Nineteen organizations are participating in the project, which has an...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #58 The Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza, Spain, has introduced two education programs that offer executives opportunities to delve deeper into the supply chain management discipline and the rigors of building supply chain resiliency. ZLC’s Executive Education Program Supply Chain is aimed at executives with at least...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #58. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. Presentes en cualquier lugar MISI Javad Feizabadi “An Investigation in the Effectiveness of Strategy Theories in Explaining Supply Chain Performance Using Archival Data”, Congreso Internacional sobre logística y sistemas marítimos 2015”, Universidad de Ciencia y Tecnología de Hong Kong...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #55 The Malaysia Institute of Supply Chain Innovation (MISI) in Shah Alam, Malaysia, is working closely with InvestKL to promote Malaysia as a global supply chain hub, and to persuade leading multi-national companies to locate their supply chain operations in the country. InvestKL is an agency...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #55 MIT CTL Edgar Blanco “Food for the Future: Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change,” World Bank Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, October 10. “Urban Logistics in Mexico City,” Congreso de Distribución Ciudad de México Videoconference, Mexico City, Mexico, October 14. “Megacity Logistics...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #55 “Supply Chain management: Driving Strategic Advantage allowed me to explore the role of 3PL with global players at an exceptionally high level. The potential networking and business opportunities with classmates and professors are vast,” says Spencer Hennigar, Supply Chain Strategy Manager, Coyote, based on Chicago...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 55. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. El Instituto para la Innovación de las Cadenas de Suministro de Malasia (MISI) en Shah Alam trabaja estrechamente con InvestKL para promocionar Malasia como centro global de cadenas de suministro y para persuadir a las multinacionales líderes para...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 55. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. "Supply Chain management: Driving Strategic Advantage me permitió explorar la función de 3PL con actores globales a un nivel excepcionalmente alto. Las posibles oportunidades de negocio y networking con los compañeros de clase y los profesores son enormes"...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #55. Lea todos artículos en este asunto Supply Chain Frontiers, n.º 55: Presentaciones 2014 MIT CTL Edgar Blanco Food for the Future: Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change, Reunión Anual del Banco Mundial, Washington D. C., EE. UU., 10 de octubre. Urban Logistics...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #54. Lea todos artículos en este asunto Supply Chain Frontiers, n.º 54: Presentaciones 2014 MIT CTL Jim Rice «Port Resilience and Emerging Decision Framework Toolkit», USCG Sector San Francisco, San Francisco (California, EE. UU.), 3 de julio. «Port Resilience and Emerging Decision Framework Toolkit», USCG Sector...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #54 MIT CTL Jim Rice “Port Resilience and Emerging Decision Framework Toolkit, USCG Sector San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA, July 3. “Port Resilience and Emerging Decision Framework Toolkit,” USCG Sector Houston, TX, USA, July 8. “Big Data and Innovation – Resilience in America’s Ports,” American...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #53 MIT CTL Chris Caplice "Balancing Robustness and Flexibility in Transportation Networks," Supply Chain Brain, April. With Francisco Jauffred. Jim Rice "Perseverance Pays in the Innovation Game," Supply Chain Management Review Innovation Strategies column, May/June. With Ashley Dorna. "An Initial Exploration of port capacity bottlenecks in...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #50 MIT CTL Edgar Blanco “Logística focalizada como respuesta adaptativa en mercados emergentes,” Logística Focalizada, Chapter 6, 135-167, Universidad de la Sabana, 2013. With F. J. Rueda and E. Gutiérrez "Carbon Efficiency of Humanitarian Supply Chains: Evidence from French Red Cross Operations", Proceedings Logistics Management 2013...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #50. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. El Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC) de Zaragoza (España) ha cumplido diez años, y está planificando una serie de eventos para celebrar este importante acontecimiento. Desde la creación del ZLC en 2003, tanto el propio centro como el PLAZA (el...
