Education

The COVID-19 crisis is now making it clear that the supply chain and workplace conditions closer to home may need to be re-evaluated.

Never in the history of global supply chain management has there been a challenge of the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic...when the pandemic begins to fade, supply chain professionals will face a “triple bullwhip” that has never been experienced before—a demand bullwhip, plus a supply bullwhip, plus a logistics bullwhip.

The need to embrace the digital transformation (DT) of supply chains remains critically important for companies, but as is the case in most areas of business, it is being shaped by the COVID-19 crisis.

Online supply chain education is not a new phenomenon, but the number of highly specialized, transportation-specific learning options has proliferated in the last few years.

As the coronavirus continues to spread and the number of infections surpasses 400,000 worldwide, the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (MIT CTL) took another look at how companies are responding.

Time is a scarce resource...so why do supply chain professionals invest significant amounts of it in exacting online courses such as the MITx MicroMasters Credential Program to gain expertise in supply chain management?

It is widely expected that the year 2020 - and the new decade it heralds - is going to bring dramatic changes to global supply chains and that China will be a leading actor in this ongoing drama.

The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) facilitated a series of roundtable discussions in conjunction with Uber Freight’s Deliver ‘19 conference.

Professor Shereazad Jimmy Gandhi discusses top trends and issues in supply chain management.

Caltech’s new, Next-Generation Global Supply Chain Leadership Program is a transformative 21-month curriculum designed to sharpen the leadership capabilities needed to thrive in today’s global enterprise—and tomorrow’s.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has engaged Caltech to deliver an innovative six-day program in Airworthiness Fundamentals, designed to help build capabilities for the company's aerospace engineers.

The Caltech Center for Technology and Management Education creates custom workshops designed to help leaders overcome and problem solve business challenges.

The rapid growth in e-commerce has triggered fundamental changes in the way consumers buy goods.

The North American TL transportation market is exceptionally large and highly complex; traditional methods for procurement, while very beneficial for many decades, are starting to fray at the edges.

Whether you are launching a high-tech startup, leading an entrepreneurial unit from within, or working in a senior position in a mid-size or large engineering firm, this program gives you the knowledge, practices and potential to take the next step – to learn, to lead, to move ahead.

MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) held a highly interactive one-and-a-half-day roundtable on the use of machine learning (ML) in supply chains.

The Master’s in Supply Chain Management is now accepting applications for the Fall 2020 Term.

Unbeknown to most shoppers, a vast, behind-the-scenes resource is supporting their responsible buying preferences this holiday season.

There is no single dollar figure consistently referenced to describe the cost to FEMA for a manufactured home. In some ways, trying to identify a single cost for the use of a manufactured home in a disaster setting is similar to identifying a single cost for rebuilding a damaged home after a disaster.

Digital transformation is changing supply chains on many fronts, including the functional makeup of teams; unfamiliar job titles such as Data Scientist are now part of the supply chain ecosystem, as the discipline comes to rely more and more on its ability to collect, analyze, and interpret massive volumes of data.