June 12, 2025
In the Media
How will generative AI aid supply chain practitioners to navigate threats and eliminate risk? MIT Technology Review featured MIT CTL Director of Research Matthias Winkenbach in an article about supply chain resilience in the age of generative AI.
"It was the black swan event that nobody had accounted for, and it threw traditional measures for risk and resilience out the window,” says Matthias Winkenbach, director of research at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. “Covid-19 showed that there were vulnerabilities in the way the supply chain industry had been running for years. Just-in-time inventory, a globally interconnected supply chain, a lean supply chain—all of this broke down.”