Past Events Archive

CTL @ CSCMP 2009

Location: Chicago, IL

MIT CTL to Explore Planning for Future Uncertainty in the Supply Chain
At the CSCMP Conference in September, MIT CTL will explore how supply chains are central to improving healthcare delivery around the world..

Tuesday, September 22  | 8:00 am to 9:30 am
Improving Health in the World and Saving Lives with More Effective Supply Chains
Dr. Prashant Yadav, Professor of Supply Chain Management at the MIT
Dr. Yadav’s presentation will share how you can contribute your knowledge and expertise to
help save lives and improve health around the world.
 
Tuesday, September 22 | 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm
The...

Webinar: Earn a Supply Chain Masters AND an MBA

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Globalization has driven supply chain management and logistics to the forefront of business strategy - but few managers have this expertise. This informative session will highlight how our supply chain masters program complements your MBA by instilling in you a system-wide and global perspective, analytical problem solving techniques, and change leadership skills necessary to jumpstart your supply chain career. In addition, the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics has partnered with leading European and Latin American business schools (IE Business School in Spain and...

Webinar: Using Effective Supply Chains to Save Lives

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The world is smaller than ever thanks to technology, trade and globalization and yet there are still hundreds of millions of people in need. Dr. Prashant Yadav, Professor of Supply Chain Management at the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program will discuss how supply chain principles from the commercial sector can be applied to private/non-profit and governmental/NGO medical and food distribution networks to help address those needs.

Webinar: The PICOmeter, A Valuable Tool for Analyzing the Financial Performance of Supply Chains

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Meaningful change in any organization requires top-level support, yet most supply chain leaders fail to excite senior management about their change programs - enter financial benchmarking.  Board-level executives love meaningful financial comparisons with their competitors. The PICOmeter is a financial benchmarking tool that connects the supply chain to the board room. In this webinar, MIT CTL Senior Research Director Dr. Bruce Arntzen will introduce the PICOmeter and describe how to use financial benchmarking to impress top management.
 

Webinar: Renewable Energy Supply Chains, Delivering on the Promise of Green Energy

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There has been much research on how to make the production of renewable energy more economically viable, but relatively little on the delivery of this vital resource. A collaborative effort between MIT CTL, the MIT-Zaragoza Program in Spain, and wind energy company Acciona, is addressing this imbalance with a research project on renewable energy supply chains. MIT CTL's Dr. Jarrod Goentzel will describe the project and potential applications of the research.

Webinar: The Supply Chain Education Partners Experience

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Each year companies work with students from the MLOG and ZLOG programs on thesis projects from August to June. Students benefit by being able to work closely with professionals on a challenging supply chain problem that will turn into their thesis. Companies benefit by having a student team bring new insights and approaches to a current supply chain project.

This webinar features two projects, with General Motors and Chiquita, that were recently completed by the class of 2009.  Both students and company project leaders will join to discuss their experiences and new insights...

MIT Global Scale Network presents International Workshop on Secure Supply Chain Collaboration

Barcelona, Spain

We would like to invite you to the International Workshop on Secure Supply Chain Collaboration which is taking place in Barcelona on June 2, in parallel to the SIL 2009 Exhibition at the Fira de Barcelona-Gran Vía.

The workshop is open to all those interested in finding solutions to the challenges of data sharing and collaborative supply chain management across supply chain players. This is specifically aimed at reducing costs and securing data privacy. This event will bring together academics and industry experts to present and discuss the results of the SecureSCM project.

Webinar: The Coming Revolution in Supply Chain Finance

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Supply chain finance is undergoing a revolutionary change. Today, 30-40% of nearly every company is unprofitable by any measure (accounts, transactions, etc.), and 20-30% of the company is providing 200-400% of the cash flow and reported profits. Supply chain managers can reverse this through astute management of supply chain finance, raising profitability by 30% or more, while reducing risk and generating cash.

In this webinar, Dr. Jonathan Byrnes, Senior Lecturer at MIT describes this opportunity, and outlines how supply chain managers can take the lead in creating these...

MLOG Research Fest 2009

MIT Faculty Lounge

Every year, graduating MLOG students present their master’s theses to CTL corporate Supply Chain Exchange Partners. This one and one-half day event is a chance for Partners to hear the results of new student research, much of which has been done with Exchange Partners. This year’s thesis topics will include:

• Transportation
• Health Care
• Green Supply Chain
• Supply Chain Design and Optimization
• Inventory
• Humanitarian Logistics
• Forecasting
• Risk Management

Webinar: Doom to Boom, What Are We Doing to Prepare for the Recovery?

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The media has exaggerated the current economic downturn into a colossal, global catastrophe, says Kevin Smith, President & CEO of Sustainable Supply Chain Consulting. Smith will discuss why he believes that the crisis has been overblown and what he thinks the likely outcome will be. Finally, Smith will focus on how you can effectively prepare for the coming economic recovery—and the competitive advantages you can achieve by doing so.