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Expert panelists including Jim Rice, Deputy Director of CTL, will offer their insights into key areas such as global risk management, energy costs, near-shoring, regulatory compliance, educational requirements, and more. Attendees at this timely web event will come away with a better sense of the supply chain challenges ahead—and what they can do to better prepare for them.
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Supply Chain Strategy: Overcoming New Competitive Challenges
Supply chain strategy is the vital link between business strategy and operations. It is here where supply chain vision is translated into actions.
Maintaining alignment between supply chain’s strategic direction and the organization’s corporate goals presents managers with some unique challenges. The wide gap between the actions senior executives assume are being taken and those that are being executed is one of the hurdles that many companies struggle to overcome. Another is that some enterprises lack of the kind of forward...
Location: W20-306
Stratton Student Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Complimentary lunch served at 12:00 pm
CTL Distinguished Speaker Series Featuring Representative Michael E. Capuano
Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Topic: U.S. Federal Transportation Legislation - Current Events
Date: Friday, March 16, 2012
Location: W20-306
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time: 12:00 pm – Complimentary lunch
12:30 pm – Lecture begins
Short description:
The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), which authorized U.S. federal transportation spending, expired in 2009. Since then, transportation spending has been...
MIT Campus
E51-345
Time: Lunch served at 11:30, Talk starts at 12:00 and ends by 1:00
Open to the general public.
Speaker: Alberto Aleman Zubieta, CEO, Panama Canal Authority
Topic:
The expansion of the Panama Canal, scheduled to open in 2014, is an incredibly large and complex civil engineering mega-project. While the expansion will certainly improve the economy of Panama as well as shift global shipping patterns, it will also position the Republic as a leading logistics hub in Latin America. This session will address the impact that the expansion will have on the Canal and on the growth of Panama into a logistics and global trade hub.
Bio:
Alberto Alemán began his professional career in the...
MIT Room E62-550
MIT Humanitarian Speaker Series
A Case Study on Post-disaster Debris Operations and Solving Multi-period Network Capacity Expansion Problems
Özlem Ergun
Georgia Institute of Technology
Abstract
Debris is the waste generated by hazardous events such as a natural disaster or a terrorist attack. Post-disaster debris collection operations are in general not planned in advance and are done in an ad-hoc way after an event. Issues in tactical and operational planning include clearing quickly, widely, and in ways that is good for the environment and health. Debris impacts the logistics of humanitarian relief and debris generated...
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This final webinar in our MIT Global SCALE Supply Chain Graduate Programs 2012 series was conducted on March 14, at 11:00 am EST.
This informative session entitled, "Why the MIT Global SCALE Network for Talent? : The Hiring Company Perspective" featured Daniel Stanton, Supply Chain Professional Development Manager, Caterpillar Logistics, Inc., Norbert Nusterer, Vice President New and ReCon Parts, Cummins, and Ryan Quinlan, Sr. Operations Manager, Amazon.
Since its inception, the MIT Global SCALE Network's masters programs have graduated more than 300 supply chain professionals, who are...
Location: E51-315
Tang Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Complimentary lunch served at 11:30 am
CTL Distinguished Speaker Series Featuring Sean Bumgarner
Director of Engineering at ABF Freight System, Inc.
Topic: Optimization and Operations at a Less-then-Truckload Carrier
Date: Monday, March 5, 2012
Location: E51-315
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time: 11:30 am – Complimentary lunch
12:00 pm – Lecture begins
Short description:
Less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers have some of the most complicated networks in transportation. In this talk, Sean Bumgarner will discuss how ABF (one of the most sophisticated carriers in the industry) optimizes the design and daily management of...
MIT Media Lab, 6th Floor (Bldg E14)
January 19, 2012 - 4:30-8:00pm at the MIT Media Lab (Bldg. E14, corner of Amherst & Ames Streets, 6th floor)
Come meet the master’s students and learn about their projects. It’s FREE!
On Thursday, January 19, 2012, the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics will host a Poster Session for 65 SC master’s students from our three MIT SCALE Network centers: MIT (SCM), Zaragoza Spain (ZLC), and Bogota Colombia (CLI). This is being immediately preceded by the MIT SC Forum for HR Executives.
In the top floor gallery of the new MIT Media Lab, each student team will display and enthusiastically...
This event is for CTL Partners and invited guests.
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