MIT SCx SUPPLY CHAIN BOOTCAMP GATEWAY SITE
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This gateway site provides presentation and reference materials for participants in the August 22-25 SCx Supply Chain Bootcamp. The materials are organized by day, with a section at the bottom for supplemental reading/reference materials. There may be some presentations containing proprietary/sensitive information or data; these will not be posted. Additionally, the case study assignments will be posted, but due to copyright regulations, we cannot post the cases. Those must be downloaded from the HBSP website. The link will be sent prior to the course.
Course location: The program will begin on the second floor of The Porter Center for Management Education Building (bldg. E62), located at 100 Main Street, Cambridge (room E62-276). PLEASE NOTE: The MIT campus in the Kendall Square area is undergoing a major renovation. Be in the present and aware of your surroundings and follow the instructions of the police details near these construction sites.
Course materials are organized by day:
Tuesday, August 22
- Course Introduction
- Halloran Metals study assignment - please read prior to class
- The Future of Supply Chain Management
- Project Introduction
- Project Assessment:
- Entrepreneurship - Talking to Humans
- System Archetypes
- Democratizing Innovation - Chapter 4 (by Eric Von Hippel)
- Entrepreneurship
- The Beer Distribution Game
- Beer Game
- "Teaching Takes Off"
- Beer Game Analysis Debrief
Wednesday, August 23
- Supply Chain Traceability and Transparency
- Please read "The Other Oil Spill; The Campaign Against Palm Oil" prior to class. http://www.economist.com/node/16423833
- Li & Fung study assignment - please read prior to class.
- Additive Manufacturing
- adidas Russia study assignment - please read prior to class.
- Future Freight Flows
- Working Capital Simulation Intro
- Working Capital Simulation Concepts and Results
Thursday, August 24
- Wal-Mart study assignment - please read prior to class.
- Wal-Mart supplement - please review prior to class.
- Digital Distruption
- Florida Citrus Case:
- Study assignment - please read prior to class.
- Case Study - please read prior to class.
- Case Exhibits
- Global Supply Chain Simulation
Friday, August 25
- Global Supply Chain Simulation Results
- Apple study assignment - please read prior to class.
- Apple case supplement - please review prior to class.
- Urban Last-Mile Logistics
Additional Materials and Miscellaneous Information:
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MBTA public transit map - MIT is the Kendall stop on the Red Line. You may want to explore Cambridge and Boston while here. One-way fare for a bus is $2.10 and $2.65 for the subway. There are ticket kiosks located at all subway stations (the kiosks themselves can be quite an adventure). If you will only be using the subway for one round trip, select "other" for the amount and put in $5.30.
Local restaurants: There are many fine restaurants in Cambridge and Boston. Here are a few local restaurants that you may want to consider (we're not advocating for these, just letting you know about them):
Champions Restaurant - A sports-themed restaurant adjacent to the Cambridge Marriott.
Legal Seafood - Excellent seafood, 5 Cambridge Center, at the corner of Main and Ames Streets.
EVOO - organic eclectic food, 350 Third St.
Firebrand Saints - it's been described as a trendy eatery and is a short walk from MIT.
Liberty Hotel - What was once the iconic Charles Street Jail is now the stunning, vibrant Liberty Boston Hotel. Just across the river (Inbound on the Red Line), one subway stop, located at 215 Charles St.