Past Events Archive

Supply Chain Innovation & Leadership Series (SCILS) - Entrepreneurship and Leadership in Logistics (4/12)

E51-335
MIT Campus

(lunch is provided)

Starting and growing a logistics company from 3 to over 300 people, presence in 20 countries and $100 million in revenue is an exciting journey. However, it is not always smooth sailing and requires constant adaptation to changing business and economic landscape. Jim Berlin will provide his perspective on how he manages the company, inspires people and takes on new business opportunities.

Jim Berlin, Founder and CEO of Logistics Plus, Inc.

In 1996 with only three employees, one customer and $120,000 in annual revenue Jim founded a logistics and transportation company - Logistics Plus in Erie...

Long-range Planning for Transportation: The Future Freight Flows Project (4/10)

32-141

Dr. Chris Caplice, Executive Director of MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics leads this seminar on Future Freight Flows as part of the Transportation@MIT and the MIT Transportation Club Spring 2012 Transportation Seminar Series.

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Global Supply Chain Trends: What the Experts See Ahead (3/29)

Online

Expert panelists including Jim Rice, Deputy Director of CTL, will offer their insights into key areas such as global risk management, energy costs, near-shoring, regulatory compliance, educational requirements, and more. Attendees at this timely web event will come away with a better sense of the supply chain challenges ahead—and what they can do to better prepare for them.

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Supply Chain Strategy Roundtable

MIT Faculty Club (Campus Map)

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Supply Chain Strategy: Overcoming New Competitive Challenges

Supply chain strategy is the vital link between business strategy and operations. It is here where supply chain vision is translated into actions.

Maintaining alignment between supply chain’s strategic direction and the organization’s corporate goals presents managers with some unique challenges. The wide gap between the actions senior executives assume are being taken and those that are being executed is one of the hurdles that many companies struggle to overcome. Another is that some enterprises lack of the kind of forward...

Distinguished Speaker Series: U.S. Federal Transportation Legislation - Current Events - Rep. Michael E. Capuano (3/16)

Location:  W20-306
Stratton Student Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Complimentary lunch served at 12:00 pm

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CTL Distinguished Speaker Series Featuring Representative Michael E. Capuano
Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Topic: U.S. Federal Transportation Legislation - Current Events

Date: Friday, March 16, 2012

Location:  W20-306
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Time: 12:00 pm – Complimentary lunch
12:30 pm – Lecture begins

Short description:
The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), which authorized U.S. federal transportation spending, expired in 2009. Since then, transportation spending has been...

MIT CTL Global Leadership Lecture: The Impact of the Panama Canal on Global Shipping, Alberto Aleman Zubieta (3/15)

MIT Campus
E51-345

Time: Lunch served at 11:30, Talk starts at 12:00 and ends by 1:00

Map for event

Open to the general public.

Speaker: Alberto Aleman Zubieta, CEO, Panama Canal Authority

Topic:
The expansion of the Panama Canal, scheduled to open in 2014, is an incredibly large and complex civil engineering mega-project. While the expansion will certainly improve the economy of Panama as well as shift global shipping patterns, it will also position the Republic as a leading logistics hub in Latin America. This session will address the impact that the expansion will have on the Canal and on the growth of Panama into a logistics and global trade hub.

Bio:
Alberto Alemán began his professional career in the...

MIT Humanitarian Speaker Series: Özlem Ergun, Georgia Tech

MIT Room E62-550

MIT Humanitarian Speaker Series

A Case Study on Post-disaster Debris Operations and Solving Multi-period Network Capacity Expansion Problems

Özlem Ergun
Georgia Institute of Technology

Abstract

Debris is the waste generated by hazardous events such as a natural disaster or a terrorist attack. Post-disaster debris collection operations are in general not planned in advance and are done in an ad-hoc way after an event. Issues in tactical and operational planning include clearing quickly, widely, and in ways that is good for the environment and health. Debris impacts the logistics of humanitarian relief and debris generated...

MIT SCALE Graduate Programs Webinar Series: Why the MIT Global SCALE Network for Talent? : The Hiring Company Perspective

Online

This final webinar in our MIT Global SCALE Supply Chain Graduate Programs 2012 series was conducted on March 14, at 11:00 am EST.

This informative session entitled, "Why the MIT Global SCALE Network for Talent? : The Hiring Company Perspective"  featured Daniel Stanton, Supply Chain Professional Development Manager, Caterpillar Logistics, Inc., Norbert Nusterer, Vice President New and ReCon Parts, Cummins, and Ryan Quinlan, Sr. Operations Manager, Amazon.

Since its inception, the MIT Global SCALE Network's masters programs have graduated more than 300 supply chain professionals, who are...

Distinguished Speaker Series: Optimization and Operations at a Less-then-Truckload Carrier - Sean Bumgarner (3/5)

Location:  E51-315
Tang Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Complimentary lunch served at 11:30 am

CTL Distinguished Speaker Series Featuring Sean Bumgarner
Director of Engineering at ABF Freight System, Inc.

Topic: Optimization and Operations at a Less-then-Truckload Carrier

Date: Monday, March 5, 2012

Location:  E51-315
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Time: 11:30 am – Complimentary lunch
12:00 pm – Lecture begins

Short description:
Less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers have some of the most complicated networks in transportation.  In this talk, Sean Bumgarner will discuss how ABF (one of the most sophisticated carriers in the industry) optimizes the design and daily management of...