What happens when fire strikes the manufacturing plant of the sole supplier for the brake pressure valve used in every Toyota? When a hurricane shuts down production at a Unilever plant? When Dell and Apple chip manufacturers in Taiwan take weeks to recover from an earthquake? When the U.S. Pacific...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #11. Read all articles in this issue. Companies are still learning the hard way that unsound supplier relationships frequently lead to higher costs and crippling supply chain disruptions. "We continue to see companies that neglect to put in place a robust strategy for how they deal...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #11. Read all articles in this issue. Emergency relief agencies and industrial manufacturers are very different organizations, but when disaster strikes they face similar supply chain challenges. This September they came together in Stanford, CA, to share best practices and learn some important lessons about disruption...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #11. Read all articles in this issue. The recently published book written by CTL Director Yossi Sheffi, The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage, is ranked sixth on a list of top 25 best-selling business books for September 2005. The list was compiled by 800-CEO-READ...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #11. Read all articles in this issue. Measures introduced in the United States since the 9/11 terrorist attacks have made supply chains more secure, now this effort is moving to a global level with an initiative to implement security standards worldwide. "This has the potential to...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #10. Read all articles in this issue Best practices have served a purpose in the quest for supply chain excellence, but companies need to shift their focus to other measures if they are to meet the competitive challenge of changing markets. This is one of the...
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 #10. Read all articles in this issue. The MIT Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) program has introduced a Leadership Track to provide some of the leadership skills students will need when they become senior executives. The new track has been added to MLOG in response...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #10. Read all articles in this issue. How can organizations prepare for crisis situations such as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina? They can build resilient supply chains that are capable of withstanding and recovering quickly from unexpected disruptions. In his book The Resilient Enterprise, published on...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #10. Read all articles in this issue. For the third year in a row US News & World Report ranks Massachusetts Institute of Technology first among graduate business programs in the area of logistics and supply chain management. The ranking appears in the 2006 edition of...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #10. Read all articles in this issue. Building on the success of last year's inaugural class, the second MIT-Zaragoza Master in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (ZLOG) class has grown to 19 students with an average of more than four years industry experience. New faculty and...
Published in Financial Times Scores of children were disappointed last Christmas as demand for Robo-sapiens, the must-have toy of 2004, outstripped supply. Many of their parents had their own moment of disappointment too, as the fashionable iPod mini flew off the shelves faster than it could be replaced....
Linking Supply Chain Practices to Operational and Financial Performance by Dr. Ting Shen at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics and edited by Dr. Larry Lapide.
I’m often asked by people I meet how they can start to leverage the Point-of-Sale (POS) data they get from their retail customers to improve their demand forecasting and planning. The first question I ask them is whether they currently do customer- or account-level forecasting and planning. They are usually...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #9. Read all articles in this issue. The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL) has launched a major initiative to develop solutions to the freight congestion problems that threaten to overwhelm the nation's transportation system. The first stage is an industry survey that CTL is...
