Supply Chain Frontiers issue #13. Read all articles in this issue. Even though a capacity crisis in the nation’s freight transportation system threatens economic growth, collaboration between carriers, shippers, and government agencies to find solutions to the problem is “virtually non-existent,” according to a survey carried out by the MIT...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #13. Read all articles in this issue. The MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) and the Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC) have partnered with Instituto de Empresa (IE) Business School to launch a dual master’s degree program offering the opportunity to earn both an International MBA...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #13. Read all articles in this issue. The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics will stage a real-time simulation of a global emergency that severely disrupts supply chains and tests the crisis response capabilities of companies around the world. Leaders from business, government and academia are...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #13. Read all articles in this issue. When implementing change do not assume that your loudest critics are the ones most likely to derail your plans; quieter, relatively passive opponents represent a more serious threat. Tom Carpenter, Vice President of Transportation at International Paper, gave this...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #13. Read all articles in this issue. Canada’s insufficient strategic airlift capability is not only impacting its military but also undermining the country’s entire economy. That is the viewpoint of current MLOG student Herman Kurapov in his paper that was recently published in Canadian American Strategic...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #13. Read all articles in this issue. Cargo theft costs the freight industry and its customers billions of dollars in lost revenue, despite countermeasures such as fortifying containers, employing dual vehicle drivers, and escorting valuable shipments. Researchers at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics are...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #7. Read all articles in this issue. The supply chain discipline is becoming more diverse as managers adopt a wider range of skills to meet the needs of their changing roles. As two 2005 MIT Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) students show, finance can now...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #4. Read all articles in this issue. The future shape of supply chains and how to make them more resilient, postponement strategies in manufacturing, and procuring transportation services, are among the projects that make up CTL's highly varied research agenda. Here is a summary of the...
