Supply Chain Frontiers issue #58 When a change in strategy is not accompanied by a change in the way supporting chains are designed, the result can be more cost and less efficiency. This has happened in the retail sector, where some companies are shifting towards small format stores but are...
Promotions involve a complicated interplay of factors and are a result of a synchronized sequence of activities between manufacturers and retailers. The outcome of promotions pivot on several elements beyond the control of any one party in the supply chain. ‘How’ a promotion performed has a more straight forward answer...
Retailers are exploring more efficient ways to deliver to small format stores that demand frequent and small volume deliveries from Distribution Centers. The need to deliver products at different temperatures, viz. Ambient, Refrigerated and Frozen, reduces volumes that need to be delivered for each product category. One way to make...
This thesis focuses on the study of the carrier-shipper relationships in the US trucking market. It uses data provided by a leading third party logistics (3PL) company to explore and determine whether a relationship exists between the prices charged by the carriers and the performance that they provide to the...
Subscribe to Frontiers THE LEADING EDGE The Myth of a Single Truckload Market Rate The traditional method used to calculate lane based market rates in truckload (TL) transportation is deeply flawed. In fact, research carried out by Dr. Chris Caplice, Executive Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, shows that...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 57. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. Muchos ejecutivos de cadenas de suministro creen en y esperan disponer de una cuota de cargas de camión (CC) única generalmente aceptada para cualquier ruta. Se conoce habitualmente con el nombre de cuota de mercado para una ruta...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #57. Lea todos artículos en este asunto Presentes en cualquier lugar MIT CTL Edgar Blanco “Megacity Logistics,” Supply Chain Management Driving Strategic Advantage, Curso de Formación Ejecutiva del MIT CTL, Cambridge, MA (EE.UU.), 11 de junio Chris Caplice "Preparing for the Future" Fort Worth, TX para...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #58. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. Presentes en cualquier lugar MISI Javad Feizabadi “An Investigation in the Effectiveness of Strategy Theories in Explaining Supply Chain Performance Using Archival Data”, Congreso Internacional sobre logística y sistemas marítimos 2015”, Universidad de Ciencia y Tecnología de Hong Kong...
ASPECTOS DE VANGUARDIA El mito de una cuota de mercado de cargas de camión única El método tradicional utilizado para calcular cuotas de mercado basadas en rutas en el transporte por camión presenta graves deficiencias. De hecho, las investigaciones realizadas por el Dr. Chris Caplice, Director Ejecutivo del Centro para...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #57 MIT CTL Edgar Blanco “Megacity Logistics,” Supply Chain Management Driving Strategic Advantage, MIT CTL Executive Education Course, Cambridge, MA, US, June 11 Chris Caplice "Preparing for the Future" Fort Worth, TX for BNSF AVP Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, TX, US, "Transportation Modeling and Trends" Chainalytics...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #57 MIT CTL Chris Caplice “Disruptive Innovation in the Classroom,” Supply Chain Management Review, May/June. Jarrod Goentzel “Supply Chains in Crisis,” Inside Supply Management Supplement, May. Yossi Sheffi “Speed Bumps on the Road to Vehicle Automation,” Linkedin Influencer blog post, April. MISI David Gonsalvez “The Top...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #57 Many supply chain executives believe in, and hope for, a single generally accepted truckload (TL) rate for any given lane. This is typically referred to as the market rate for a lane, and is found by taking the average or median of a sample of...
Summary Report for the Becoming Location-Aware: State of Art and Science for End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility Roundtable held on May 12, 2015, at MIT.
Crossroads 2015: Lessons from a Worldwide Virtual Classroom Speaker: Chris Caplice, Executive Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 56. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. Una nueva forma de entregar mercancías en ciudades congestionadas, un sistema revolucionario de almacenamiento de energía y un método para impulsar la innovación mediante los proyectos de trabajo informales son algunos de los desarrollos que los profesionales de...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #56 A new way to deliver freight in congested cities, a revolutionary energy storage system, and a method for driving innovation by harnessing skunk work projects, are some of the developments that supply chain professionals will learn about at Crossroads 2015, March 24, 2015, at the...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #54. Lea todos artículos en este asunto Supply Chain Frontiers, n.º 54: Presentaciones 2014 MIT CTL Jim Rice «Port Resilience and Emerging Decision Framework Toolkit», USCG Sector San Francisco, San Francisco (California, EE. UU.), 3 de julio. «Port Resilience and Emerging Decision Framework Toolkit», USCG Sector...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #54 On September 30, 2014, supply chain education will take a major step into the digital age with the start of SCx, an on-line educational program developed by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) for thousands of professionals across the globe. More than...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #54 MIT CTL Chris Caplice “ A Better Approach to Infrastructure Planning,” Harvard Business Review Blog Network, July 10. Co-authored with Dr. Shardul Phadnis Roberto Perez-Franco “ Is Your Supply Chain Strategy Holding Back Innovation?” Supply Chain Management Review, July/August 2014 Yossi Sheffi “World Cup Plays...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 54. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. El 30 de septiembre de 2014, la formación en cadena de suministro dará un paso decisivo para adentrarse en la era digital con el inicio de SCx, un programa de formación en línea desarrollado por el Centro para...
The thesis attempts to answer the question which is commonly asked by retailers and manufacturers – what’s the best way to deliver a product to the store? Specifically the thesis tries to understand and evaluate the impact on transportation and safety stock when a manufacturer transitions from a 100% DC...
How an owner-operator chooses a specific load is a relatively unstudied field in transportation literature. Stakeholders in the decisions, such as freight brokers, stand to benefit from a better understanding of the selection process. Using load board data from a freight brokerage, we identified four parameters available to a carrier...
Without using any order acceptance criteria, retail companies distributing products with private transportation fleets are not able to maximize their profits because they are not adequately utilizing their capacity. The objective of this paper was to create and validate a model to determine if historical demand data can be used...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 53. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. La conferencia anual del Instituto de Innovación de la Cadena de Suministro de Malasia (MISI) Design Anywhere - Make Anywhere - Deliver Anywhere tuvo lugar en Lanai Kijang (Malasia) el 20 de marzo de 2014. Asistieron al evento...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #53. Lea todos artículos en este asunto Supply Chain Frontiers, n.º 53: Presentaciones 2014 MIT CTL Edgar Blanco «Megacity Logistics», curso de formación para ejecutivos del MIT CTL Gestión de la cadena de suministro: cómo impulsar la ventaja estratégica, Cambridge (Massachusetts, EE. UU.), 12 de junio...
