Friday, May 8, 2020 · Maria Jesus Saenz, Elena Revilla and Cristina Simon
AI projects that achieve the right balance between machine and human involvement in decision-making are more likely to succeed.
Monday, April 13, 2020 · Bruce C. Arntzen
When a recession hits, customers can reduce your revenues and stop your outbound flow of products faster than you can trim expenses and stop your inbound flow of raw materials. Working capital will be stressed as your materials pipeline backs up and profits will take a hit as…
Monday, February 10, 2020 · Atmaja Sinha and Rakesh Thykandi
In a tight truck transportation market, a shipper can be forced to tender shipments to the spot market when contracted carriers are unable to fulfill its demands. As a result, the shipper is likely to incur higher costs and lower levels of service.
Monday, November 18, 2019 · Kevin K. Y. Chu and Juan Martínez
Working with a retail pharmacy chain in an emerging market, we have developed an inventory management model to minimize total inventory-related costs for various forecast horizons.
Monday, November 4, 2019 · Ken Cottrill
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,…
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 · Yiyao Li and William Phillips
Urbanization and customer demands are making last-mile delivery optimization increasingly complex and important for retail companies. However, these companies often do not have the tools and/or capabilities to include customer-specific or environmental constrains such as time…
Thursday, February 7, 2019 · Ken Cottrill and Christopher Mejia
Communities with limited access to sources of nutritional food – commonly called food deserts – represent a major health threat across the globe. Researchers at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) have identified an innovative approach to combatting…
Tuesday, January 29, 2019 · Minhaaj Khan and Srideepti Kidambi
Businesses implement the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process to focus, align and synchronize all the different functions of their organizations. Given the significance of this effort, it's surprising that most businesses don't carefully consider the…
Wednesday, December 19, 2018 · Jorge García Castillo
As the number of natural hazards has increased over the last 10 years, supply chain resilience has attracted more attention with respect to mitigating the effects of these hazards
Thursday, December 6, 2018 · Alexis Bateman
Consumers are deeply concerned about food safety issues at a time when Federal regulators appear to be pulling back from stricter oversight of food supply chains.
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 · Evan Humphrey and Federico Laiño
As the field of business forecasting develops, technological improvements allow companies to experiment with more advanced models.
Tuesday, August 14, 2018 · Sittipat Assavaniwej and Aline Ingberman
The advent of 3D printing (sometimes called additive manufacturing or AM) could potentially disrupt the traditional metalworking process.
Tuesday, July 3, 2018 · SCMR Staff
The Master's Program of MIT Global SCALE (Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence) Network has been ranked as the world's No. 1 graduate business program in supply chain and logistics by Eduniversal. The Paris-based global rating agency for higher education ranked the…
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