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2020 Probes the Future

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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #1. Read all articles in this issue What will supply chains look like 15 years from now and how can corporations be prepared for the new competitive environment? Without time travel there is no sure way of finding out, so the MIT Center for Transportation &...
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Looking For Options

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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #1. Read all articles in this issue. Financial options are commonplace but how about trucking options? Researchers at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics are exploring the idea of a road transportation option as a way to make the procurement of trucking services a surer...
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New Roads to E-Commerce

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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #1. Read all articles in this issue. Amazon.com is driving growth in the international business-to-consumer channel with groundbreaking work to standardize carrier and postal practices across countries. The company has cut last mile shipment delays through the use of multiple postal authorities, and is pursuing efficiencies...
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One Channel or Two?

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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #1. Read all articles in this issue. The road to the customer has a second lane thanks to the Internet. In addition to conventional bricks-and-mortar outlets, on-line services have become a heavily trafficked route to market. The two channels serve different needs but they can be...
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Presentation

Proceedings of the Supply Chain 2020 Project’s European Advisory Council Kickoff Meeting

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Proceedings of the Supply Chain 2020 Project’s Industry Advisory Council Kickoff Meeting.
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Supply Chain Frontiers #1 :: MLOG Milestone

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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #1. Read all articles in this issue. The Center for Transportation and Logistics: Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) program is celebrating its fifth anniversary this May. Created in 1999, the unique program in logistics has become the leader in the field. The number of applicants...
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Taking Control

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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #1. Read all articles in this issue. There is wide agreement that supply chains are becoming more complex, but relatively little consensus on how to govern them. That situation needs to change. The competitive climate is shifting, and companies cannot afford to lose control of the...
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ZLOG Triples Target Intake

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Supply Chain Frontiers issue #1. Read all articles in this issue. The Zaragoza Master of Engineering in Logistics (ZLOG), the full time masters program offered by a groundbreaking partnership between MIT and the Zaragoza Logistics Center in Spain, is oversubscribed months ahead of its start date this fall. "We are...
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Combinatorial Auctions in the Procurement of Transportation Services

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Most shippers use annual auctions to procure transportation services, leading to annual contracts. By using combinatorial auctions they can reduce their operating costs, while protecting carriers from winning lanes that do not fit their network, thereby improving carriers’ operations as well. Combinatorial auctions account for carriers’ economies of scope, which...
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Urban Transportation Networks: Equilibrium Analysis with Mathematical Programming Methods

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Preface: The flow pattern throughout an urban network can be looked upon as the result of two competing mechanisms. On the one hand, users of the system (drivers, passengers, pedestrians) try to travel in a way that minimizes the disutility associated with transportation. For example, motorists driving between a given...
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Thesis/Capstone

Innovative Transportation Solutions: Uber for Freight

As part of standard business cycles, new technologies continue to emerge that disrupt industries and capture market share from stagnant incumbents. In the trucking industry, Uber for Freight (UFF) is one of these innovative business models. Loosely defined as platforms which seek to more efficiently match shippers’ loads with truck...
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Mirroring payment terms and lead times

In a simple representation of a supply chain, products flow from suppliers to customers, and currency flows from customers to suppliers. The period it takes a supplier to satisfy a customer order is called lead time. The period it takes a customer to pay a supplier for product is called...
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Outreach (video)

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Reaching 50 Million Nanostores: Retail Distribution in Emerging Megacities

Authors: Jan C. Fransoo (Kuehne Logistics University), Edgar E. Blanco, Christopher Mejia-Argueta Millions of small, family-operated nanostores are the main source of consumer packaged goods in many neighborhoods of large cities across the developing world. In many of these countries, well over half of consumer goods are sold via the...
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Paper

Summary Report for the Innovations in Transportation Roundtable: Disrupting the Dominant Design of Procurement and Management 

Summary Report for the Innovations in Transportation Roundtable: Disrupting the Dominant Design of Procurement and Management held on February 12 -13, 2019 at MIT. This report is available for MIT CTL partners only. If you are an MIT CTL partner, please log in or create an account to download this...