MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics

The difference between companies that continue to gain a competitive advantage from Machine Learning-based demand forecasts and those that struggle to harness the technology could become greater in a post-pandemic future.

Companies need to review their supply chain design processes and adopt modern methods reflective of the volatile markets in which they now compete.

Listen in as MIT’s Milena Janjevic explains why the time is right for a new take on supply chain design processes and technology. ASCM CEO Abe Eshkenazi and SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock are hosts.

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.

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.

An army of dedicated professionals keeps the country’s food supply chains humming under trying conditions, from distributors’ employees, fulfillment center personnel, logistics planners, pallet manufacturing crews, procurement professionals, transportation brokers, truck drivers, truck stop attendants, warehouse workers, wholesalers, and countless other specialists.

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.

This is the second year AWESOME and the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics have partnered on the Advancing Women through Education (AWE) Fellowship.

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.

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.

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