Past Events Archive

Overcoming Financial Barriers to Building Resilient Supply Chains

Dec 07, 2022 at 11:00AM - Dec 07, 2022 at 12:00PM A significant barrier to making supply chains more resilient is making the financial case for investments. That’s because it’s hard to measure resilience, projecting the future cash flows from such investments are plagued by uncertainties, and the challenges in obtaining the data required to estimate the discounted cash flows are immense. This session examines those issues and offers some remedies.

Roundtable: Building Upstream Supply Chain Resilience

Dec 01, 2022 at 8:00AM - Dec 02, 2022 at 2:00PM Widespread shortages experienced around the globe have highlighted the criticality of the supply chain. But these have also illustrated the importance of maintaining supply continuity to keep supply chains operating. MIT CTL will convene a roundtable discussion on “Building Upstream Supply Chain Resilience” at the headquarters of Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, NJ. The conversation will focus on creating resilience upstream in supply chains – with suppliers. Supply chain leaders from the Supply Chain.

SCE Monthly Research Briefing - Dr. Chris Caplice- What You Wish Your C-Suite Knew About Truckload Transportation

Nov 02, 2022 at 11:00AM - Nov 02, 2022 at 12:30PM Join MIT CTL's Chris Caplice for What You Wish Your C-Suite Knew About Truckload Transportation. Transportation professionals know that freight transportation is not like other commodities. Therefore, it should not be procured like other commodities. This talk explores the most common misunderstandings that senior (non-transportation) executives have concerning TL transportation and why that matters. Based on research from MIT’s FreightLab and DAT Freight & Analytics with over 150 shippers, this talk will help transportation executives better understand why TL is different and how to explain this to their senior management.

MIT Sustainable Supply Chains SCM290x Online - Welcome Webinar

Oct 26, 2022 at 11:00AM - Oct 26, 2022 at 12:00PM

Register to attend the welcome webinar

Transform your organization's climate pledges into actionable strategies through better supply chain management.

Demand for sustainable supply chains is on the rise. Booming growth in e-commerce, fast-shipping consumer expectations, Covid-19, and many other developments have created an ever more competitive business environment for companies from all sectors and industries. Companies face increasing pressure to become more sustainable from all stakeholders, such as policymakers, shareholders, investors, and NGOs. At the same time, consumers demand more...

SCALE Webinar: “Technologies shaping the future of mobility”

Oct 19, 2022 at 9:00AM - Oct 19, 2022 at 10:15AM

Environmental awareness, Covid-19, the rise of digitization, the e-commerce boom, and the energy prices rise due to the war in Ukraine are essential drivers boosting innovation in mobility. Digitization evolves with and also fosters four major ongoing techno-economic developments in logistics: automation, connectivity, electrification, and shared ownership. This digital transformation does not only involve hard factors but also requires soft approaches.

This webinar will cover the following emerging trends in mobility:

1. Data and digitalization
2. Net-zero technologies
3. New business models
4. Mu...

The Promise of Supply Chain Sustainability: Trending and Future Applications for Business

Oct 13, 2022 at 5:30PM - Oct 13, 2022 at 8:00PM How is the practice of supply chain sustainability (SCS) evolving globally? How is SCS driving change across business functions? How has the global Covid-19 pandemic affected firms’ sustainability efforts, and what does this imply for approaches to future global disruptions? Join MIT CTL’s State of Supply Chain Sustainability research team alongside thought leaders from CSCMP, Blue Yonder, project 44, Avetta, and C.H. Robinson for an interactive dialogue about the current state of global supply chain sustainability and its implications for the future.

American Trucking Associations’ Interstate One: A Virtual Driving Experience – Cambridge Science Festival

Oct 09, 2022 at 12:00PM - Oct 09, 2022 at 4:00PM

Kendall/MIT Open Space

The MIT FreightLab has teamed up with the American Trucking Associations and US Xpress to bring a tractor-trailer truck and driving simulator to the Cambridge Science Festival. Admission is free and open to the public. A note from the event organizers:

Supply chain management research is typically done from behind a desk. But the actual work of supply chain management is done over the road by millions of professionals operating sophisticated and heavy equipment. The MIT FreightLab is happy to work with our industry partners to bring a state-of-the-art freight truck and driving simulator to...

Supply Chain Exchange Monthly Research Briefing – CAVE Lab Intro II

Oct 05, 2022 at 11:00AM - Oct 05, 2022 at 12:00PM Our monthly research briefing in September is the second of a two-part exercise to give Supply Chain Exchange partners a first-hand experience with our CAVE (Computational and Visual Education) Lab. Over the past 18 months, the CAVE team has developed several applications that illustrate the CAVE’s ability to visualize and support the analysis of complex supply chain problems.

The Evolving Nature of Transportation Procurement

Sep 23, 2022 at 12:30PM - Sep 23, 2022 at 2:00PM Transportation procurement has undergone tremendous changes over the last few years. The capacity crisis of 2018, followed by a freight recession in 2019, and a pandemic forced shippers, carriers, and brokers to reassess their procurement process. This interactive roundtable will focus on better understanding how shippers should consider using a mix of dedicated, contract, and spot relationships to secure truckload transportation. We will present recent research from MIT’s FreightLab and elsewhere and discuss potential follow on research.

Roundtable: Maximizing Data ROI for Supply Chains

Sep 13, 2022 at 8:00AM - Sep 14, 2022 at 2:00PM

Wayfair, Boston. (This event is open to Supply Chain Exchange members and invited guests. Please register with your work email address.)

Data is widely recognized as a key source of potential competitive advantage in businesses today, yet this advantage remains elusive for many organizations. This begs the question: How can data be used in the supply chain to maximize the benefit to the company? This simple question raises many issues requiring thoughtful choices and decisions, each of which ultimately affects the ability of the company to create a return on its investment in data (and all the activities surrounding the data).