Innovation in Motion: Shaping the Next 50 Years of Supply Chain

Sustainability in supply chains with Alexis Bateman, CTL Research Scientist and Director, MIT Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative: Join MIT CTL's Ken Cottrill in a candid conversation on the State of Supply Chain Sustainability research area. Learn about a comprehensive new study underway, the first of its kind. Learn more at https://sustainable.mit.edu/ Download the full transcrip... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Transportation Innovation with Michelle Livingstone, Vice President - Transportation at The Home Depot: Chris Caplice discusses insights on transportation, people management, and creating the workforce of the future with Michelle Livingstone of The Home Depot. Drawing on over 25 years of experience, Ms. Livingstone comments on her role leading a highly tal... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Resilience and disruption response with Erez Agmoni, Regional Head of Supply Chain Warehousing and Distribution - America at Maersk: Join MIT CTL's Alexis Bateman in conversation with Erez Agmoni about disruptions, supply chain design, and resilience tips for the supply chain and logistics professional. Interview recorded as part of mit.ctl.sc3x - Supply Chain Dynamics. Learn more abo... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Supply Chain Decision Making and Design in Times of Disruption with LLamasoft CEO, Razat Gaurav: Innovation in supply chain decision making and design has flourished in recent years. The availability of high-quality data coupled with an urgent need to respond to disruption has fostered rapid change in how organizations coordinate, cooperate, and im... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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50 Years of Earth Day: MIT Perspectives in the Face of Radical Change: Recorded on the 50th Earth Day to explore what the path forward may look like to the 2050 Climate Goals and a more sustainable future in the face of radical change. We explored the ecological, political, technological, and industrial perspectives on the ... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Flexibility for the Future - How Disruption Fosters Innovation: Like never before, companies have learned during the pandemic to pivot quickly across multiple dimensions. They ramped up production, changed their processes, and adopted new technologies, at speed unimaginable before the crisis. In only six weeks, contr... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Food Security and Supply Chain Management with Chris Mejía Argueta: Food security is top of mind given supply chain considerations caused by a global pandemic. MIT CTL congratulates the World Food Program staff for their recent Nobel Peace Prize awarded for their work in alleviating hunger. On the topic of food security,... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Voices from the Open Road: Utilization, Shippers, and Driver Quality of Life: Supply chains in the U.S. rely heavily on over-the-road trucking to reliably and safely provide essential supplies to businesses and consumers. These networks are comprised of innumerable relationships between shippers who have goods to move and carriers... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Supplier Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Challenges and Opportunities: Initial research indicates that there are both commercial and social benefits to DE&I programs within organizations. MIT CTL and MIT Sustainable Supply Chains make a case for companies to revisit their efforts (HBR article) and, if necessary, commit them... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Truck and Drone Cooperative Delivery Vehicle Systems - Social Implications by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Rapid Systems Assessments for Crisis Response with MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab: Every corner of the globe has suffered from supply chain disruptions during the coronavirus pandemic. Beginning in March with a focus on U.S. food supply chains, the MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab (HSCL) began providing evidence-based analysis to the ... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Global Supply Chain Risk and Innovation with Mark Bakker: In today’s episode, Research Scientists Alexis Bateman and Inma Borrella speak with Mark Bakker, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Global Operations at Hewlett Packard Enterprise about the tools and skills needed for sustained global supply ch... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Blue Sky, Gray Sky – Part 1: In the wake of a disaster, restoring supply chains can be critical in assuring that the most vital needs of affected communities are met. In this episode, Tim Russell and Lauren Finegan of the MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab discuss the fundamental... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Moderna’s Road to the Vaccine and Beyond: Join MIT Global SCALE Connect for an in-depth conversation with Paul Granadillo, SVP Global Supply Chain at Moderna. MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi speaks with Paul about how the pandemic vaccine response reshaped manufacturing, business, and supply chains a... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Key Performance and Key Learning Indicators in Digital Transformation: Today, on MIT Supply Chain Frontiers, editorial director, Ken Cottrill speaks with Maria Jesus Sáenz, director of MIT Digital Supply Chain Transformation Lab, about how companies use artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify key performanc... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Champions for Change - Women Leaders in Supply Chain Management by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Amazon Last-Mile Routing Research Challenge Uncovers New Research Methods on a Global Scale: The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) and Amazon engaged with a global community of researchers across a range of disciplines, from computer science to business operations, to supply chain management, challenging them to build data-driv... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Bottleneck Analysis to Understand Systems in Disruption: Bottleneck analysis aiming to increase asset productivity has commonly been applied inside the four walls of production and distribution facilities. The pandemic disrupted global supply chains with dramatic shifts in demand and constraints in supply with... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Voices from Beyond the Open Road - Utilization, Shippers, and Driver Quality of Life pt. 2: Earlier this year, MIT CTL's David Correll spoke with over-the-road truckers about their experiences in order to shed light on why it is that U.S. truckers appear to be both scarce and underutilized at the same time. During the year, Dr. Correll oversaw... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Supply Chains across Sectors - A Conversation with the MIT CTL Military Fellows: In today’s episode, research scientist David Correll speaks with the 2021–22 MIT CTL military fellows: US Army Col. Joe Parker, Lt. Col. Brian Young, and Louisiana National Guard Lt. Col. Stephen J. Luebbert. The fellows discussed their experiences in th... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Empathetic Leadership in the Field–More Insights with the MIT CTL Military Fellows: This episode marks the second installment of research scientist David Correll speaking with the 2021–22 MIT CTL military fellows: US Army Col. Joe Parker, Lt. Col. Brian Young, and Louisiana National Guard Lt. Col. Stephen J. Luebbert. Today’s conversati... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Shipper Ghost Lanes - Hidden Costs and Consequences: Truckload transportation services procurement is costly and time-intensive. These months-long procurement events typically result in thousands of contracts between shippers and carriers. The contracts cover each of the shipper’s product distribution lane... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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The New Competitive Edge: Analytics-Driven Supply Chain Design for Value Creation: Supply chain design has traditionally been conducted with only one dimension in mind: cost minimization. The conventions of supply chain design date largely from the 1990s. But major technological strides have been made in the years since, allowing f... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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The Warehouse of the Future: Warehouses are undergoing a fundamental transformation—in response to the explosion of growth in the e-commerce space and worldwide large-scale supply chain disruptions, warehouses have gone from places simply for goods to sit to highly interconnecte... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

54 min listen

Blue Sky, Gray Sky – Part 2: "Hope is not a strategy." In this episode, we are joined by Kathy Fulton, Executive Director of the American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN), who discusses her work connecting private-sector resources with disaster response needs: a "gray sky" response,... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

36 min listen

Sustainability Contains Multitudes: MIT CTL Research Scientist David Correll joins us to share findings from the State of Supply Chain Sustainability 2023. Pressure on firms to make their supply chains more sustainable has increased over the past four years and isn't going anywhere, th... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, A.I., and the Future of Work: In this episode, MIT CTL Director Yossi Sheffi, an expert with nearly five decades of experience in the supply chain and logistics areas, sits down with Susan Lacefield, Executive Editor of Supply Chain Quarterly. Yossi and Susan discuss the miracle ... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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Innovation in Motion: Shaping the Next 50 Years of Supply Chain: On this episode, we're joined by Melanie Nuce-Hilton, SVP for Innovation and Partnerships at GS1 US, a nonprofit standards organization best known for administering the Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode—and celebrating its fiftieth anniversary rig... by MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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