Past Events Archive

Evolve or Perish: A Journey in Supply Chain Agility and Applied Analytics

Mar 11, 2022 at 11:00AM - Mar 11, 2022 at 12:00PM

This event is open to Supply Chain Exchange members and current SCM students and invited guests. Register with your work email domain to verify.

In this talk, Dr. Chris Mejía and Dr. Edgar Gutiérrez-Franco discuss insights that are important to build resilient and efficient supply chains under uncertain environments. Speakers will elaborate on how understanding business characteristics, and using quantitative approaches may help map leverage points, understand challenges and gain flexibility in supply chains. Attendees will learn innovative strategies to support their decision-making processes to create proactive, adaptable business models through the use of data analytics while reducing costs and expanding their market share without compromising their long-term financial sustainability.

The Covid Pandemic and Global Supply Chains: Lessons from the MIT SCALE Network

Mar 09, 2022 at 8:00AM - Mar 09, 2022 at 9:30AM

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, in all its variants, has rattled global supply chains for two years now with shockwave disruptions up, down, and sideways along the chains in a phenomenon known as the Bullwhip Effect. The mounting challenges range from shortages of essential parts and components, to sky-rocketing freight rates and wholesale and consumer price levels, to lengthy delays at ports and inventory out-of-stocks.

Is it time to upend the textbook prescriptions? In this MIT SCALE-wide panel, the directors of the five network centers worldwide will discuss their views and experiences on...

Creating customer value using SCM retail technologies and systems

Mar 03, 2022 at 11:00AM - Mar 03, 2022 at 12:00PM

Webinar - registration required

Learn how retail companies and supply chain professionals can leverage supply chain systems and technology to meet changing customer demand. Amit Kulkarni, Divisional Vice President of Supply Chain, Merchandising & Co-op Brands Technology at REI joins us for an interactive discussion. Mr. Kulkarni has over 20 years of experience in information technology and will share recent insights from REI.

Join Laura Allegue, course lead for Supply Chain Design, and Kellen Betts, course lead for Supply Chain Technology and Systems, for an in-depth conversation about how REI uses its supply chain...

SCE Research Briefing - Josué Velázquez Martínez- First Fridays

Feb 04, 2022 at 11:00AM - Feb 04, 2022 at 12:00PM

Improving supply chain performance via focusing on logistics sustainability

With the consistent growth of e-commerce and fast-shipping delivery options of the past years, companies struggle with the challenge to balance delivering fast to customers while reducing carbon emissions. In this webinar, Josué Velázquez will present some of the sponsored research projects from the MIT Sustainable Supply Chain Lab focused on green logistics. Some of the implementations include the use of data analytics and geo-spatial analysis in applications on vehicle routing, fleet composition, and consolidations...

The Changing Landscape of Omnichannel Fulfillment

Feb 02, 2022 at 10:00AM - Feb 02, 2022 at 11:00AM

Dr. Eva Ponce, director of the Omnichannel Distribution Strategy Lab at MIT CTL discusses the recent growth in e-commerce and the drivers behind the implementation of omnichannel distribution strategies.

Interviewed by MITx MicroMasters Program in SCM course lead, Laura Allegue, Dr. Ponce will share her insights on the challenges companies face with omnichannel distribution and discuss new trends and technologies that may help improve results.

View the recording here; https://youtu.be/mL4uvP0Jpas

Data, Databases, and Machine Learning in SCM

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

Qifeng Wang, Senior Manager of Operations Research at GameStop, and Rao Panchalavarapu, Principal Data Scientist at Walmart Global Tech will speak with host Kellen Betts, course lead for Supply Chain Technology and Systems (SC4x).

Join us to learn about real-life data and machine learning applications in supply chain management. The interactive discussion will give the background of their work and be accompanied by participant polls and Q&A, an opportunity for participants to ask questions.

Be sure to attend!

14th Annual MIT Global SCALE Network Supply Chain Student Research Expo

Jan 22, 2022 at 11:59PM - Jan 27, 2022 at 12:00PM

Online January 20-27

Our annual Research Expo offers a preview of nearly100 industry-sponsored research projects conducted by supply chain students at MIT CTL and the international centers in the global Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) network. The Expo showcases this research-in-progress on a broad range of future-forward topics and provides an exclusive glimpse at what the final findings will reveal in May.

 

 

Moderna’s Road to the Vaccine and Beyond-LinkedIn Live

Jan 19, 2022 at 8:30AM - Jan 19, 2022 at 10:00AM

Join MIT Global SCALE Connect for an in-depth conversation with Paul Granadillo, SVP Global Supply Chain at Moderna. MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi will be speaking with Paul about how the pandemic response reshaped manufacturing, business, and supply chains at Moderna.

Executive Education – Supply Chains: Driving Strategic Advantage

Jan 18, 2022 at 8:00AM - Jan 21, 2022 at 5:00PM

MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, 1 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, USA

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Cultivate your talents with MIT CTL Executive Education. 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 these disciplines. 

SCE Research Briefing - Özden Tozanlı - First Fridays

Jan 07, 2022 at 11:00AM - Jan 07, 2022 at 12:00PM

Unveiling the Fallacies of Digital Twins

Supply chains today undergo a paradigm shift with the inevitable rise of emerging technologies. Specifically, digital twins have become an exciting technology as they offer a number of state-of-the-art supply chain solutions and enable various capabilities across operational, tactical, to strategic levels. Digital twin technology is primarily described as virtual replicas of physical objects, where they can see, think, and communicate with their real-world counterparts on a real-time basis. However, the more we hear about this technology, the more...