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April 2012

Distinguished Speaker Series: Challenges in the Truckload Trucking Market - Woody Richardson (4/19)

Apr 19, 2012 at 7:30AM - Apr 19, 2012 at 9:00AM

Location: E51-315
Tang Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Complimentary lunch served at 11:30 am

Woody Richardson
Vice President of Engineering and Business Transformation for Schneider National, Inc.

Topic: Challenges in the Truckload Trucking Market

Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012

Location: E51-315
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Time: 11:30 am – Complimentary lunch updated
12:00 pm – Lecture begins

Bio:
Woody Richardson is Vice President of Engineering and Business Transformation for Schneider National, Inc. Schneider National is a provider of truckload, intermodal, brokerage and logistics services having revenues in 2011 of 3.4 billion dollars. In his 30 years at Schneider...

Supply Chain Analytics Roundtable (4/17)

Apr 17, 2012 at 4:00AM - Apr 17, 2012 at 1:00PM

MIT Faculty Club (Campus Map)

Supply Chain Analytics Roundtable, April 17, 2012

FAQs

Analytics groups comprised of experts who are highly skilled in the use of various analytical tools and methodologies, provide key problem-solving support for many supply chains. Yet these groups are often ill defined both in terms of their position within organizations and how their services are deployed. The lack of operating standards opens up a number of important questions:

What is the best method for creating analytics groups?
How can these groups be organized and what reporting relationships are appropriate?
What...

Distinguished Speaker Series: Federal Surface Transportation: Perspectives from Inside the Beltway - Alex Herrgott (4/13)

Apr 13, 2012 at 8:00AM - Apr 13, 2012 at 9:30AM

Location: W20-306
Stratton Student Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Complimentary lunch served at 12:00 pm

Alex Herrgott
Director, Transportation and Infrastructure
Congressional and Public Affairs
U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Topic: Federal Surface Transportation: Perspectives from Inside the Beltway

Date: Friday, April 13, 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 continued through...

Supply Chain Innovation & Leadership Series (SCILS) - Entrepreneurship and Leadership in Logistics (4/12)

Apr 12, 2012 at 7:30AM - Apr 12, 2012 at 10:00AM

E51-335
MIT Campus

(lunch is provided)

Starting and growing a logistics company from 3 to over 300 people, presence in 20 countries and $100 million in revenue is an exciting journey. However, it is not always smooth sailing and requires constant adaptation to changing business and economic landscape. Jim Berlin will provide his perspective on how he manages the company, inspires people and takes on new business opportunities.

Jim Berlin, Founder and CEO of Logistics Plus, Inc.

In 1996 with only three employees, one customer and $120,000 in annual revenue Jim founded a logistics and transportation company - Logistics Plus in Erie...

Long-range Planning for Transportation: The Future Freight Flows Project (4/10)

Apr 10, 2012 at 8:00AM - Apr 10, 2012 at 9:00AM

32-141

Dr. Chris Caplice, Executive Director of MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics leads this seminar on Future Freight Flows as part of the Transportation@MIT and the MIT Transportation Club Spring 2012 Transportation Seminar Series.

Watch the video.

March 2012

Global Supply Chain Trends: What the Experts See Ahead (3/29)

Mar 29, 2012 at 10:00AM - Mar 29, 2012 at 11:00AM

Online

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.

Supply Chain Strategy Roundtable

Mar 22, 2012 at 5:00AM - Mar 22, 2012 at 1:00PM

MIT Faculty Club (Campus Map)

Agenda | FAQs | Summary Report

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...

Distinguished Speaker Series: U.S. Federal Transportation Legislation - Current Events - Rep. Michael E. Capuano (3/16)

Mar 16, 2012 at 8:00AM - Mar 16, 2012 at 9:30AM

Location: W20-306
Stratton Student Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Complimentary lunch served at 12:00 pm

View the event flyer here.

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

MIT CTL Global Leadership Lecture: The Impact of the Panama Canal on Global Shipping, Alberto Aleman Zubieta (3/15)

Mar 15, 2012 at 7:30AM - Mar 15, 2012 at 9:00AM

MIT Campus
E51-345

Time: Lunch served at 11:30, Talk starts at 12:00 and ends by 1:00

Map for event

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 Humanitarian Speaker Series: Özlem Ergun, Georgia Tech

Mar 14, 2012 at 7:45AM - Mar 14, 2012 at 9:00AM

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...