Supply Chain Frontiers issue #42 CLI Andrés Baquero y Rene Suárez “A Foresight Approach to Reshaping the Actions in the Food Supply and Security Master Plan of Bogota,” Latino and Ibero American Congress of Technology Management (ALTEC 2011), Lima, Peru, October 19 – 21. Julián Lasso and Jhonatan Rotberg “Virtual...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #41 CLI Vivian Rangel Castelblanco Presentation at the International Sustainability and Carbon Footprint Forum, Cali, Colombia, June 22. MIT CTL Bruce Arntzen “Current and Future State of Corporate Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM),” Supply Chain Council webinar, May 6, with John J. Brown, SC Risk Manager...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #41. Lea todos artículos en este asunto Supply Chain Frontiers nº 41 Ponencias 2011 CLI Vivian Rangel Castelblanco Ponencia en el Foro Internacional de Sostenibilidad y Huella de Carbono (Cali, Colombia) el 22 de junio. MIT CTL Bruce Arntzen “Current and Future State of Corporate Supply...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39 The first Future Freight Flows (FFF) Workshop took place on November 4, 2010, at the headquarters of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC), in Philadelphia, PA. The event was a resounding success. The project team will now take the workshop on the road in...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #39. Lea todos artículos en este asunto . El primer taller de flujos futuros de transporte de mercancías (Future Freight Flows, FFF) tuvo lugar el 4 de noviembre de 2010 en la sede central de la Comisión de Planificación Regional del Valle de Delaware (Delaware Valley...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #38 The debate over deep water drilling continues to rage following the Vermillion oil rig explosion in the Gulf of México this September, and BP’s announcement that the cost of its oil spill in the same waters has reached $8 billion. But there is another dimension...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #38. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. El debate acerca de la perforación de pozos en aguas profundas continua generando controversia, así como la explosión de la planta petrolífera de Vermillion en el Golfo de México en septiembre y el anuncio de BP sobre el costo...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #38. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. El fabricante y distribuidor de agua embotellada Niagara Bottling, LLC, se ha unido al “Supply Chain Exchange” del Centro de Transporte y Logística del MIT (MIT CTL). La rápida expansión de la compañía y el enfoque hacia la eficiencia...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #36. Lea todos artículos en este asunto . En CEO Summit organizado por el Centro Latinoamericano de Innovación en Logística (LOGyCA-CLI), y que se llevará a cabo en abril, los líderes de compañías compartirán estrategias de negocios con sus pares y recibirán retroalimentación valiosa de expertos...
Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #28. Read all articles in this issue The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) will give a number of presentations on a wide range of topics at this year’s Council for Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Global Conference 2008, Denver, CO, October 5...
Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #24. Read all articles in this issue Supply chain education has come a long way over the last 10 years, and its development path promises to be even steeper over the next decade. Jim Kellso, Senior Supply Chain Master at Intel, is one of the originators...
Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #18. Read all articles in this issue Supply chain professionals are climbing the corporate ladder and taking top leadership positions. In recognition of this trend, the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) has expanded its management and leadership curriculum with the creation of the Supply...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #10. Read all articles in this issue. With the U.S. Gulf Coast still reeling from Hurricane Katrina, a one-day seminar on improving the effectiveness of major international disaster efforts took place on September 8, 2005, at the Stanford Graduate Business School, Stanford, CA. The event, "Effective...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #8. Read all articles in this issue. Smoothing the Work Flow Across Enterprises Removing the functional barriers that impede the end-to-end flow of work within an enterprise is not a new idea - but companies now need to start doing it across enterprises, according to Dr...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #8. Read all articles in this issue. The 2005 Zaragoza Supply Chain Summit is Fast Approaching Please do not forget to register for this major event which this year focuses on a theme that is of vital importance to every enterprise - the future of offshore...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #8. Read all articles in this issue. The Future of RFID on Both Sides of the Pond In March, the European Advisory Council of the SC2020 Project met in Neuss, Germany, at the Future Store, a working supermarket equipped with a range of technological innovations including...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #8. Read all articles in this issue. High Praise in the Journal of Commerce MLOG graduates resoundingly endorse the value of their advanced logistics degrees in a special feature on education published by the Journal of Commerce. "Supply-chain management professionals are finding that to get ahead...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #8. Read all articles in this issue. A MLOG Student Teams Up with an International Humanitarian Institute The devastation caused by December's tsunami prompted an unprecedented outpouring of global aid that presented disaster relief providers with innumerable logistical challenges. MLOG student Tim Russell has teamed up...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #8. Read all articles in this issue Dell's Unconventional Success Conventional notions of what will and will not work are not always true, said Michael Dell in the February 2005 issue of MIT Supply Chain Frontiers. And that applies to relatively new conventions, such as the...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #8. Read all articles in this issue. Ranked First for Fourth Year in a Row For the fourth consecutive year MIT has been ranked first among graduate programs in logistics and supply chain management by US News & World Report. "MIT is consistently ranked as the...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #5. Read all articles in this issue. The potential of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology lies beyond the tag-sized vision that currently predominates. Picture a central nervous system that captures, interprets and feeds data to other systems dispersed across the globe. This is how MIT's Professor...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #5. Read all articles in this issue. Fifteen years ago, CAMCO, GE's Canadian appliance joint venture, revolutionized manufacturing: they cut the cycle time for manufacturing stoves, refrigerators, and other white goods from four months to three days. And the new process didn't cost a cent. In...
