MIT SCM Master's Candidates Andres Ayala and Ria Verma, along with their advisors Dr. Elenna Dugundji and Dr. Thomas Koch, are designing a chatbot that can aide procurement professionals' negotiations.
Devadrita Nair and Maria Jesus Saenz of the MIT Digital Supply Chain Transformation Lab recently published an aritcle in MIT Sloan Management Review. Here's a brief excerpt:
Bryan Reimer, Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics’s (MIT CTL) AgeLab, has been appointed by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to the Transforming Transportation Advisory Committee (TTAC). The committee advises the DOT and the Secretary of Transportation about plans and approaches for transportation innovation.
LIFT Lab Director Josué C. Velázquez Martínez wrote in the latest Innovation Strategies column in Supply Chain Management Review. Here's a brief excerpt:
MIT AgeLab founder Joseph Coughlin discusses the importance of planning how to spend your retirement years, as it is as important as planning to save for your retirement.
“Over the past century, we’ve created the greatest gift in humanity – 30 extra years of life – and we don’t know what we’re going to do with it.”
FreightWaves on Tuesday interviewed Angela Acocella, postdoctoral researcher at Tilburg University and researcher with the MIT Center of Transportation and Logistics looking at the impact of ghost lanes on shipper and carrier networks.
Micro-retailers are vitally important to the economies of developing countries and to consumer packaged goods companies but their full potential is not being realized. The adoption of digital technologies could help change that. But for that to happen, obstacles must be overcome. This October 3, 2023, article by Josué C. Velázquez Martínez (MIT CTL Research Scientist and Director of the MIT Sustainable Supply Chain Lab and MIT Low Income Firms Transformation (LIFT) Lab) and Ken Cottrill (CTL Editorial Director), suggests three strategies can address them.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 2 – The State of Supply Chain Sustainability 2023, published today, Now in its fourth year, the annual report from the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) examines how supply chain sustainability practices have evolved over a four-year period, how they are being implemented globally, and what that means for professionals, enterprises, industries, and the planet. This year’s report shows that pressure on firms makes their supply chains more sustainable.
In a recent influencer article, MIT CTL Director Yossi Sheffi discusses issues involved with sourcing in China.
MIT CTL's Toby Gooley writes about the importance of how to get your distribution center ready for driverless forklifts.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.—Sept. 18, 2023 — Dr.
Newer vehicles today are packed with sensors and technology. This includes a group of features known as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (or ADAS), that aim to help drivers better react to danger on the road and partially automate the driving task. So how are drivers today actually handling all this new tech? Are we beginning to see safety benefits? Dr.
The MIT Supply Chain Management Master’s Program is pleased to announce the winners from the Class of 2024 of the Advancing Women Through Education (AWE) Fellowship.
The MIT School of Engineering recently honored outstanding faculty, students, and staff with its 2023 awards.
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Each year, the MIT School of Engineering honors outstanding faculty, students, and staff across its departments, labs, centers, and institutes with a number of awards. Recently, the school announced the following members of the engineering community at MIT as winners of its 2023 awards.
Faculty and teaching awards
MIT AVT's Bryan Reimer comments on the concerns of self-driving vehicles in cities without the city's full consent.
PhD Candidate Jonas Lehmann, CTL Principal Research Scientist Matthias Winkenbach, and CTL Research Scientist Milena Janjevic published a study highlighting the leading carbon footprint of hybrid containers.
"As carbon emissions surge worldwide, mounting pressure from politicians and shareholders alike is driving decarbonization efforts across all industries. In our new study, we investigate the operational and tactical levers to reduce carbon emissions in temperature-sensitive cold chain logistics.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creeping into many industries, and now it’s coming for the automotive supply chain. Should we be nervous, or should it be embraced as a helpful tool? Yossi Sheffi, professor of Engineering Systems at MIT weighs up the pros and cons.
MIT AVT is collaborating with Toyota on vehicle technology.
Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) today announced plans to launch three new projects as part of its next phase of research, dedicated to advancing safety in mobility technologies. The research projects include an investigation on driver support features for vehicle lane centering, the creation of an in-vehicle intervention prototype to promote safe driving and the use of data to help improve technology to aid driver decision making to encourage safer driving behavior.
Research Scientist and FreightLab Co-Director David Correll recently gave an interview to FreightWaves touching on the quality of life for truck drivers. Here's a brief excerpt:
"There are two things about the way truck drivers are managed that are out of date: one, they do not qualify for overtime pay, and two, that they’re paid by the mile. These have always struck me as anachronistic and part of the problem, so efforts to correct this notion that overtime pay doesn’t apply to truck drivers I really think would help.
Chris Caplice and David Correll discuss the innovations and precautions associated with AI in the freight industry in this Transport Topics article.
"David Correll, co-director of MIT FreightLab, agreed there are dangers associated with offering inexperienced workers direct access to data and analysis."
MIT CTL's Toby Gooley describes an interview with Charles Pascarelli on DC Velocity about how far forklift safety has come in the past decade and where he sees it heading in the future.
These days you can find robots at warehouses, in restaurants, and grocery stores. Artificial intelligence has computers completing jobs humans usually do. Together, they have a lot of people worried about the future of our workforce.