Supply Chain Frontiers issue #4. Read all articles in this issue.
The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics has launched an expanded corporate outreach program that gives industry partners more opportunities to collaborate with the Center.
Corporate outreach builds and sustains relationships that drive leading edge ideas and competitiveness. CTL is unique in the way it fosters a collaborative community of corporate sponsors, where the exchange of knowledge, experience, and expertise accelerates the adoption of supply chain innovation into practice. The new program offers three forms of engagement.
Exchange Partner
The Supply Chain Exchange is the platform for ongoing corporate engagement with the Center and MIT. The program serves as a common meeting ground where information, experiences, perspectives, and opinions are openly shared in a collaborative and collegial setting. Benefits of Exchange membership include placements at CTL's acclaimed symposia and executive courses, research briefings, and connections to graduate students for research and recruiting purposes.
Research Partner
Exchange sponsor organizations that want to engage in specific areas of research may elect to join one or more Research Groups. The groups bring together researchers and sponsors to probe deeply into specific supply chain issues and problems, giving members early access to groundbreaking research. Example areas being investigated include transportation procurement and the application of smart object technology.
Strategic Partner
Strategic Partners enjoy the highest level of interaction and collaboration with CTL faculty, researchers and students as well as with other industry leading companies. Strategic Partners are part of the Center's Executive Board, helping to guide the Center and influence its future direction. They have complimentary participation in all Center events and Research Groups, and enjoy other benefits designed to promote a close and continuous relationship with CTL.
"CTL is extending its portfolio of services in response to the growing demand for supply chain expertise and research, and the new corporate outreach program is central to that effort," said Yossi Sheffi, Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics.