CTL Spotlight
August 12
More than ever, companies need supply chains that are resilient to disruptions, whether the cause is a natural disaster, an infrastructure failure, labor actions, or a global pandemic. Yet the conventional approach to resilience is seriously flawed. Many companies follow a boom-and-bust pattern, making big investments in resilience after a supply chain disruption and then paying little attention to the issue until the next crisis.
Podcast
Matthias Winkenbach, Director of Research at MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, discusses the enduring challenge of vehicle routing. Despite decades of study, optimal efficiency remains elusive. With AI and machine learning, the new MIT Intelligent Logistics Systems Lab, under his direction, aims to revolutionize last-mile delivery and urban logistics, addressing the rising consumer expectations and complexities that traditional methods can't fully solve. Learn more at intelligent.mit.edu.
The MIT Low Income Firms Transformation (LIFT) Lab joins us to discuss their work empowering micro retailers and nanostores in emerging markets by using generative AI to help these businesses enhance their decision-making and supply chain capabilities.
Warehouses are undergoing a fundamental transformation—in response to the explosion of growth in the e-commerce space and worldwide large-scale supply chain disruptions, warehouses of the future are leveraging new technologies in automation and digitalization to enhance precision, flexibility, and efficiency to adapt quickly to changing market and supply chain trends and needs. In this episode Miguel Rodríguez García, a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, and Erez Agmoni, Global Head of Innovation (Logistics & Services) at international shipping giant Maersk, take us through the changes and technologies that are transforming warehouses and the ways in which companies are seeking to make these transformations sustainable.