Supply Chain Frontiers issue #42. Lea todos artículos en este asunto Supply Chain Frontiers #42 Presentaciones 2011 CLI Andrés Baquero y Rene Suárez “Un Enfoque Previsivo para la Reformulación de Acciones en el Suministro de Alimentos y el Plan Maestro de Seguridad de Bogotá” Congreso Latino – Iberoamericano de Gestión...
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...
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. Lea todos artículos en este asunto . Ya está creado el marco para que el Sudeste Asiático ocupe su puesto como una de las potencias comerciales líderes a nivel mundial. Además de beneficiarse del crecimiento de China y de la India, los mercados nacionales están...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #40 CLI Vivian Rangel Castelblanco “CLI’s Carbon Footprint Measurement in Emerging Market Supply Chains: The Colombian Case Research Project,” Sustainable Strategies to Strengthen Your Supply Chain conference, Bogotá, Colombia, March 1. “Carbon Footprint Analysis in Latin America: The Colombian Case,” Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)...
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 #37 CLI Edgar Blanco Keynote speaker, ICPR Americas, Bogotá, Colombia. July 22, 2010. MIT CTL Edgar Blanco Speaker, EPA Regional Administrators’ Event, Baltimore, MD, USA, July 14, 2010. Chris Caplice “Mind the Gap: Connecting Planning to Operations in Transportation Management,” keynote speaker, 2010 Oracle Transportation Management...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #37. Lea todos artículos en este asunto . PRESENTACIONES CLI Edgar Blanco Conferencista Principal en ICPR Americas, Bogotá, Colombia. Julio 22, 2010. MIT CTL Edgar Blanco Conferencista, EPA Evento Administradores Regionales, Baltimore, MD, EEUU, Julio 14, 2010. Chris Caplice “Cuidado con la brecha: Conexión de planificación...
Supply Chain Frontiers Issue #24. Read all articles in this issue What is the difference between short-term and long-term? At a December retreat, the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics’ (MIT-CTL) Demand Management Interest Group (DMIG) considered the difference not as a philosophical question but in the context of demand...
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...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #9. Read all articles in this issue. Two Research Associates have joined CTL to work on the Center's expanding portfolio of supply chain research projects. Mahender Singh received his PhD from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he taught Operations Management. He is a graduate of...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #9. Read all articles in this issue. Transportation has become a more expensive item on the balance sheet, encouraging companies to be more judicious when using these services. A store delivery model developed by Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) graduate, Chris Kerslake, is helping a...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #9. Read all articles in this issue. The first class to graduate from the Zaragoza Masters of Engineering in Logistics & Supply Chain Management (ZLOG) degree program received a warm welcome to the profession from John Allan, CEO of global supply chain management company Exel. "You...
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 #9. Read all articles in this issue. Large commercial aircraft manufacturers are cutting lead times and outsourcing more assembly work to tier-one suppliers. The aim is to smooth out the market turbulence that locks the industry into perpetual boom-and-bust cycles. Along the way the supply chain...
