Join the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics to celebrate the graduating class of 2020 in a brief online webinar. Friday's convocation will come just before MIT commencement and feature faculty and staff highlighting the SCM experience for graduates and families.
MIT CTL hosts a Partner Virtual Series exclusively for Supply Chain Exchange members to share their experiences, responses, and issues related to the coronavirus outbreak. The COVID-19 pandemic is an example – albeit an extreme one – of the supply and demand shocks that convulse supply chains today. There are many ways to gird supply chains against these shocks, but one that we believe merits much more attention is to develop a resilient Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process. If you are not a Supply Chain Exchange member, learn how to become one here. **Please note this session will not...
Where: Online Webinar
Let's explore how to utilize and optimize supply chain tools and models. Learn how companies analyze large amounts of data and how they are making decisions for supply chain management during times of disruption.
In this live event, we are very fortunate to host Mani Janakiram, PhD., MBA, a Sr. Director, Global Supply Chain at Intel Corporation. Mani will discuss his experience and perspectives on developing and managing supply chain network models and how to pivot during times of disruption.
The session will include two short presentations/demos from Mani focussing on: supply chain...
MIT CTL hosts a Partner Virtual Series exclusively for Supply Chain Exchange members to share their experiences, responses, and issues related to the coronavirus outbreak. More details to come. We will use this time to exchange ideas and best practices among partner companies. **Please note this session will not be recorded**. If you are not a Supply Chain Exchange member, learn how to become one here.
MIT CTL hosts a Partner Virtual Series exclusively for Supply Chain Exchange members to share their experiences, responses, and issues related to the coronavirus outbreak. Last-mile distribution typically constitutes the most expensive part of any global supply chain, and it is becoming increasingly complex due to the ongoing boom in e-commerce, the associated rise in customer expectations, and the increasing levels of urbanization. Appropriately designing the underlying distribution networks, including facility location, inventory allocation, and fleet composition decisions is paramount for...
MIT CTL hosts a Partner Virtual Series exclusively for Supply Chain Exchange members to share their experiences, responses, and issues related to the coronavirus outbreak. For this edition, Dr. Maria Jesus Saenz, Director of MIT Digital Supply Chain Transformation, interviews Vijay Sankararaman, Head of Digital Product Management, Walmart. The discussion will center around topics from Dr. Saenz' recent article, “How the Pandemic Could Remake Supply Chain’s Digital Future.” If you are not a Supply Chain Exchange member, learn how to become one here. **Please note this session will not be...
Engineering and Supply Chain Management have traditionally been male-dominated fields. This is slowly changing. According to the 2019 Women in Supply Chain Survey by Gartner, the average percentage of women in Supply Chain roles has increased from 37% to 39% over a three-year period from 2017–2019.
The goal of this roundtable is to bring the supply chain community together to share in the insights, experiences, and knowledge of inspiring women who are leaders in their industries and in their supply chain roles. Through the sharing of these lessons and experiences...
Please note: this series is open to Supply Chain Exchange members exclusively.
MIT CTL offers a virtual series that to include briefings from CTL and SCALE Network researchers and virtual exchange sessions. We will host a briefing and discussion each week during the time that we are unable to convene in person. Each talk will start with a presentation from the researcher and then will be followed by a Q&A session. These are intended to provide our Partners continued engagement with other Supply Chain Exchange members and offer the opportunity to continue to learn about our work.
For this year we transition Crossroads from an in-person event at MIT to a virtual event online. In order to offer the best participant experience, we are currently updating the agenda and program activities. Registration for the event is now closed. If you would like to receive follow-up information about Crossroads please let us know here.
The year 2020 was less than a month old when the coronavirus outbreak erupted in China. The crisis provides a stark reminder of the uncertainties that supply chains face today – and throughout the new decade. The Crossroads 2020 one-day...