E-commerce sales have grown exponentially since the introduction of the smart phone in 2007 and the trend is expected to continue. As retailers enter e-commerce, the pressure to provide more and faster delivery options to the customer is increasing. The resulting complexity and increased delivery speeds are often expensive. Providing...
Truckload cancellations by carriers are causing disruptions in the trucking industry operations. By extrapolating the findings from the 3PL’s data studied in this research to the whole trucking industry, it is estimated that 32 million cancellations occur every year. These cancellations result in around $4.6 billion extra cost. If these...
Are we learning to trust self-drive vehicle technology? In January 2018 the AAA released the findings of its latest annual survey of driver attitudes in the US. Sixty-three percent of American drivers report feeling afraid to ride in a fully self-driving vehicle. This is a significant portion of the country’s...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue n.º 56. Lea todos artículos en este asunto. Los cambios reguladores son una vía de doble sentido para las empresas: pueden ser disruptivos, pero también pueden forzar la revisión de prácticas aceptadas que arroje nueva luz sobre la eficiencia operativa. Esto es lo que le sucedió...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #56 Regulatory change is a two-way street for companies: it can be disruptive while forcing a review of accepted practices that sheds new light on operational efficiency. This is what happened to PepsiCo Brazil when the Brazilian government introduced new rules that limit truck driver working...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #47. Lea todos artículos en este asunto Presentaciones de 2012 sobre la cadena de suministro de Frontiers, n.º 47 MIT CTL Bruce Arntzen «Supply Chain Visibility (Mapping)», avance en la gestión de riesgos de la cadena de suministro: retos emergentes y estrategias, campus del MIT, Cambridge...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #47 MIT CTL Chris Caplice “Do You Have the Right Toolkit?” Talent Strategies column, Supply Chain Management Review, November issue. Yossi Sheffi “Logistics Clusters: Unsung Champions of Economic Opportunity,” Supply Chain Matters blog, October 17. “Logistics as a Creator of Jobs,” Supply Chains Rock blog, October...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #44. Lea todos artículos en este asunto . El Centro Latinoamericano de Innovación en Logística (CLI) cuenta con nuevo curso de educación ejecutiva que inicia en mayo. Este curso se centra en la superación de los desafíos que implica la logística global y gestión de la...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #44 The Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (CLI) is launching a new executive education course this May that focuses on overcoming the challenges of global logistics and supply chain management in Latin America. CLI developed the course with the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics. A...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #42. Lea todos artículos en este asunto . Los mercados en naciones emergentes se diferencian unos de otros en muchos aspectos, pero una característica que casi siempre tienen en común es un alto grado de fragmentación a lo largo de la cadena de abastecimiento. El negocio...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #42 Markets in emerging nations differ in many respects, but one characteristic that they generally have in common is a high degree of fragmentation across the supply chain. The pipes and fittings business in Brazil is a good example, and the way leading supplier Amanco Brasil...
In the fall of 2009 MIT CTL conducted a global survey of supply chain risk experiences, attitudes, and risk management practices. Over 1400 supply chain professionals from 70 countries participated. Supply chain risk management, resilience and business continuity planning have been talked about for the last 10 years. Some progress...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #32. Read all articles in this issue. When it comes to stimulating economic growth, the key to future expansion can sometimes be found in the past. Earlier this decade, the government of Aragón in northern Spain realized that its economy had become too reliant on a...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #32. Read all articles in this issue. Dr. Bruce C. Arntzen has joined the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) as a senior research director with special responsibility for developing the ground-breaking MIT Global SCALE Network. An MIT graduate, he brings over 20 years...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #32. Read all articles in this issue. There is no such thing as a free lunch, except, perhaps, when it comes to counting inventory. Research being carried out by David Opolon, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) PhD candidate, shows that a consistent inventory...
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...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #9. Read all articles in this issue. Graduates from this year's Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) program left MIT with jobs at major companies and a median salary of $ 97,000--59% higher than their salary levels at the time of joining the program. MLOG 2005...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #6. Read all articles in this issue. The recent decision by IBM to exit the PC business it pioneered is an industry milestone, but that is only half the story. The $1.75 billion sale of IBM's PC hardware division to Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo Group Ltd...
