Upcoming Events

Time Is Money (And Avoidable Waste)! Mastering Perishability in Supply Chains

Aug 14, 2024 at 11:00AM - Aug 14, 2024 at 12:00PM

Virtual

The Food and Retail Operations Lab will dive deep into the critical tradeoffs and challenges decision-makers face in managing perishable supply chains. Gain invaluable insights into how perishability affects your supply chain and discover essential strategies to tackle it from strategic, tactical, and operational angles. Led by Dr. Chris Mejia, this session will showcase real-world applications and solutions developed for top companies to maximize freshness across various supply chains—from efficient routing to optimal facility locations. You'll also learn how these innovative models and data analyses can be applied to other industries, providing versatile tools to enhance your operations. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your supply chain management skills and drive your business forward with cutting-edge, practical solutions.

Advances in Transportation Portfolio Management

Sep 04, 2024 at 11:00AM - Sep 04, 2024 at 12:00PM

Virtual

In this talk, Dr. Chris Caplice describes recent research conducted in the MIT FreightLab on truckload transportation management. Specifically, we discuss segmentation strategies, budgeting under uncertainty, and using a portfolio approach to manage transportation services. 

Strategic Re-Optimization of a Large-Scale Supply Chain Network

Oct 02, 2024 at 11:00AM - Oct 02, 2024 at 12:00PM

Virtual

Industries worldwide are facing intensified competitive pressures and profound shifts in demand dynamics, driven by factors such as the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing political conflicts. These changes affect not only the types of products purchased, but also the volumes. As a result, real-world supply chain networks are becoming extremely complex, impacting businesses of all sizes, including small and medium-sized enterprises. The need for companies to introduce ad-hoc constraints and requirements often amplifies these complexities, leading to highly intricate, large-scale operational challenges. In this project, we aim to develop a decision support tool for large-scale multi-commodity supply chain network to improve inventory management and transportation decisions over a multi-period planning horizon.

SCE Monthly Research Briefing - November 2024 - Milena Janjevic

Nov 06, 2024 at 11:00AM - Nov 06, 2024 at 12:00PM

SCE Monthly Research Briefing - December 2024 - Inma Borrella

Dec 04, 2024 at 11:00AM - Dec 04, 2024 at 12:00PM

Executive Education – Supply Chains: Driving Strategic Advantage

Jan 07, 2025 at 8:00AM - Jan 10, 2025 at 3:00PM

MIT Campus

The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics Executive Education intensive courses provide the resources you need to stay ahead of the latest developments in supply chain management. To harness the power of the supply chain as a strategic resource, executive leadership needs to cultivate teams that exhibit a unique combination of both analytical and interpersonal capabilities. Our faculty and instructors include some of the world’s most prominent thought leaders across disciplines.