Supply Chain Frontiers issue #32. Read all articles in this issue. Brightstar Corporation started life as a trading company in the mobile phone business, and has since grown rapidly into a full service supply chain organization for wireless network operators and retailers. Company founder and CEO Marcelo Claure recently traced...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #32. Read all articles in this issue. The difficult economic climate did not deter more than 200 people from attending the Leaders of the Value Chain conference in Bogota, Colombia, May 6, 2009, organized by supply chain research and education company LOGyCA and the Center for...
Articles Include: How Three Companies Are Using Supply Chain to Combat the Recession Recession as a guide to better supply chains New Routes to Resilience Three strategies for the upturn Face [To] Face: SCS Q&A Overcoming India’s Planning Challenges Supply chain risk in India Delivering a Safer Food Supply Chain...
Kevin Smith, President & CEO of Sustainable Supply Chain Consulting discusses why he believes that the crisis has been overblown and what he thinks the likely outcome will be, and how you can help your company effectively prepare for the coming economic recovery.
Articles Include: Retuning Demand Forecasts for Recession and Recovery Get a clearer picture of demand Quick Cash Meets Competitive Purchasing Boost your bottom line and your buying acumen The Best of Both Worlds Logistics and procurement join forces Spotting Suppliers in Distress How to pick up the danger signs Searching...
“The devil is in the details” is a common phrase that connotes a negative viewpoint when having to deal with detail. However, when it comes to the use of downstream information —such as Point-of-Sale (POS), wholesaler warehouse withdrawals, and third party syndicated data—the detailed and granular data it provides can...
CTL Crossroads Conference held March 26, 2009 - CTL Researchers and Directors summarize the issues that were discussed during the day's focus sessions.
MIT CTL Crossroads Conference 2009 presentation by keynote speaker Dr. Andrew W. Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor at Sloan School of Management, Director of Sloan School’s Laboratory of Financial Engineering, CTL Research Affiliate, and Alphasimplex Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer.
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #31. Read all articles in this issue. This year’s MIT CTL Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) Research Fest will take place on May 20 to 21, 2009, on the MIT campus. The annual event gives MLOG graduating students the opportunity to present the results of...
Professor Chaman Jain emailed me the request last month that I dedicate this JBF column to the topic of forecasting the “un-forecastable.” Sounding like a contradiction in terms, I asked him what he meant. He stated that “all products are not equally forecastable” and that I should discuss “how to...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #31. Read all articles in this issue. Little research has been done to extend our knowledge of commodity supply chains. Yet commodities are the starting point for many productive processes, both in developed and developing countries. A region’s level of advancement in the extraction, planning, distribution...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #31. Read all articles in this issue. Forecasting demand has never been easy, but in an economic downturn the task brings new challenges because the ground rules that usually guide forecasters shift. In a recession, companies need to retune their approaches to reading markets. "If demand...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #31. Read all articles in this issue. One of the many challenges in delivering medicines and health supplies in sub-Saharan Africa is the lack of timely information about quantities of product flowing through the supply chain. Researchers at the Zaragoza Logistics Center are working with the...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #31. Read all articles in this issue. The cost of fuel is a major driver of supply chain efficiency, and the increasing volatility of fuel prices can undermine performance if not managed properly. Research at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics’ (MIT CTL) FreightLab has...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #31. Read all articles in this issue. The MIT Zaragoza International Logistics program at the Zaragoza Logistics Center, Spain, has received a grant of US$492,857 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study the most effective way to estimate the demand for global health products...
Articles Include: Four strategies for Taming Fuel price Volatility How to streamline gas-guzzling supply chains Making the right Call on supplier price hikes The real story behind those repricing requests Take a Fresh look at Water Another resource footprint is creeping up [Re]searching for answers: Choosing a supply Chain Consultant...
We are experiencing drastic economic times, and as the saying goes “drastic times call for drastic measures.” I don’t believe that supply chain planners should heed that conventional wisdom. They should still plan, rather than solely react, to an economy that is changing in very different ways.
Many organizations, from the Red Cross to pharmaceutical firms, depend on efficient supply chains to deliver goods, services, and people to parts of the world where they are desperately needed. Learn about how you could have a career in the growing field of humanitarian logistics. Hear from current MLOG and...
CTL researcher Dr. Mahender Singh reviews the key findings of the December 2, 2008 CTL symposium "New Perspectives on Managing Risk through the Supply Network" that took place at MIT. The symposium brought together researchers who are working on understanding and modeling supply network risk, and practitioners who are pioneering...
Dr. Edgar Blanco, Executive Director of CLI, notes that the financial crisis, the presidential election, and the possible increase in green regulation will profoundly affect supply chains in 2009.
Articles Include: Is Your Supply Chain Primed for Price Increases? How to swim in a rising tide of price hikes Wider Cost Horizons Reveal Hidden Savings Narrow-minded cost managers pay a price Four Steps to Network Resilience Genentech’s path through the risk-mitigation maze Making New Compliance Connections Trade compliance as...
