Supply chain design is the foundation of strategic supply chain planning, a key for organizations to create value.
As supply chains become more end-customer-focused and global, their design becomes paramount as a competitive differentiator.
The MIT CTL Supply Chain Design Initiative conducts innovative research to help organizations implement a value-driven, collaborative co-design process.
We employ and develop visual analytics decision-support tools, that enable intuitive interaction with quantitative methods to support data-driven decision-making processes.
The New Competitive Edge | Analytics-Driven Supply Chain Design | An Executive Guide
Learn how to address the growing need to rethink your supply chain design approaches.
Understand the four opportunities to leverage new supply chain design paradigms:
Download the White Paper: The New Competitive Edge | Analytics-Driven Supply Chain Design
This white paper is the fruit of a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) and Coupa, the provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered supply chain analytics software.
“Empower your teams with robust decision-making processes and technology that can support them, elevating the management of your supply chain’s complexity through the simplicity of scenario building, multi-tier discussions, and probabilistic decision-making paradigms.” - Carlos Valderrama, Vice President, Customer Services & Value Management, Coupa Software.
Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, stated;
“Traditional supply chain designs and methodologies have become outdated, creating risk for today’s businesses. To model a new world, you need new thinking and new tools.”
We focus on the development of new quantitative methods for supply chain design and the use of visual analytics to facilitate a cross-functional co-design process.
Dr. Milena Janjevic, a research scientist at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics leading the Supply Chain Design initiative during a MicroMasters SCM event discusses a new approach to rethinking network design. As supply chains become more end-customer-focused and global, their design becomes paramount as a competitive differentiator (watch the video, top-right).
Learn more about improving decision-making in supply chain design through the use of data-driven optimization and simulation models and their integration into interactive visual tools.
For more information visit The MIT CTL Supply Chain Design Initiative
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