SCALE Expo 2025

CTL@50 Presents: 15th Annual MIT Global Supply Chain Excellence Network Student Expo

Our annual SCALE student Expo previews nearly 100 industry-sponsored research projects conducted by supply chain students at MIT CTL and the international centers in the global Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) network. The Expo showcases this research-in-progress on a broad range of future-forward topics and provides an exclusive glimpse at what the final findings will reveal in May.

Students Pitch Business Ideas to "Sharks" in Entrepreneurship Challenge

The 2022 SCALE Connect conference ended in a whirlwind of group project presentations and awards ceremonies. One of the team-based challenges of the conference is the annual entrepreneurial challenge competition: a product development and pitch challenge sponsored by the ASCM Massachusetts Minuteman chapter, in the style of the hit TV show "Shark Tank". Randomly assigned student teams propose and pitch solutions to problems on the UN Global Issues List.

Students Compete and Deliver Solutions to Companies in Supply Chain Challenge

Graduate supply chain management students from the MIT Global Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) Network put their heads together last month to find solutions to real-world supply chain problems in the second annual MIT Supply Chain Challenge.

Each team had 14 days from receiving its data set to come up with an innovative, feasible, and effective solution to present to the sponsor company. 

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Innovation Strategies: Upcycling can take sustainable supply chains beyond recycling

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MISI

By Sirish Gouda, Sanjeev Swami and Debabrata Ghosh ·April 30, 2019

In 2018, British fashion luxury house, Burberry faced severe criticism when it burned approximately $37 million worth of unsold clothes, accessories and perfumes. Other companies in the apparel, fashion and textile industry have faced similar criticism for incinerating products for strategic reasons such as intellectual property protection and brand exclusivity. In addition, the industry produces approximately 92 million tons of waste a year. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that in 2015 more than 16 million tons

Strategic Supply Chain Management - MIT SCALE Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation

Enterprises are becoming increasingly global, with supply chains spanning geographical boundaries. To navigate the global marketplace, leaders need to know how to plan the most efficient use of material resources, as well as manage complex global networks and optimize service and quality. This course will draw on real issues confronting companies today to provide strategic frameworks for undertaking major decisions to increase competitive advantage. Register or learn more here.

Supply Chain Management and Logistics in Latin America: A Multi-country Perspective
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Supply Chain Management and Logistics in Latin America: A Multi-Country Perspective

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How Relevant is Latin America? Challenges and Opportunities. Latin America is a well recognized and growing market, but its poor infrastructure, explosive urbanization, expensive and inefficient logistics, and multiple social problems continue to pose major problems to logistics professionals and academics. The uniqueness and complexity of these issues have long daunted scholars, and there remains an important gap in the literature around Latin American supply chain management and logistics (SCM&L). Discover the full story with this collection of selected papers from 2016 MIT SCALE Latin

Thesis/Capstone

"Would You Be Willing to Wait?": Consumer Preference for Green Last Mile Home Delivery

The growing trend of e-commerce has led to new ways of selling and delivering products, resulting in increasing scale and complexity of last mile home delivery. The drive to provide convenience to consumers has led companies to offer faster delivery times. As a result, companies have focused on facility location, network design, and asset utilization (trucks, drivers), in order to improve service and speed. Few, however, have questioned whether consumers truly want convenient and fast delivery. Ratherthan focusing on a company’s operations, we approach the last mile home delivery from the

2020–2021 MIT SCALE Latin America Conference

We’re excited to announce that the MIT SCALE Latin America Conference will be held virtually in 2021. Now, you can join from anywhere in the world to review over 100 presentations from top academics from across Latin America and the Caribbean and participate in three keynote virtual plenary sessions. 

The MIT Latin American SCALE Network is an alliance of leading-edge research, education, and outreach organizations dedicated to the development and dissemination of innovative supply chain and logistics research in Latin America. The network helps companies, governments, and organizations to compete in an increasingly complex business environment and engage academia, students, and partners to collaborate on projects that have an in-depth economic, societal, and environmental impact. 

As part of the mission of the SCALE Latin America Network, we invite you to participate in the 2020-2021 MIT SCALE Latin America Conference to be hosted remotely on March 21-26, 2021. Organized by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL) in collaboration with the Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (CLI). The main goal of the conference is to provide a forum for sharing high-impact educational and research in logistics and supply chain management relevant to Latin America. 

For more detailed information on SCALE LatAm, please visit the official conference webpage.

Registration is now closed

 

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