This week’s topics
Managing Digital Supply Chain Transformation
- Technology integration frameworks
- Legacy system interoperability
- Workforce reskilling
- Data security and governance
- A Conversation on Digital Supply Chain Transformation
- Supply Chain Analytics in Action | Lessons from UPS on Digital Transformation, Technology, and AI
What you will be able to do
- 1.2 Compare the impact of emerging technologies on supply chains.
- 1.3 Discuss how emerging technologies can be effectively managed within a supply chain.
Activity
Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: compare the impact of emerging technologies on supply chains.
Study materials
Videos
- A Conversation on Digital Supply Chain Transformation · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 62 min · for registered students
- Supply Chain Analytics in Action | Lessons from UPS on Digital Transformation, Technology, and AI · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 52 min · for registered students
- SC3x Live Digital Transformation with Alexis Bateman and Maria Jesus Saenz · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 51 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Introduction to Logistics, ch. 2: Technology and Logistics · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 33–41 · for registered students
- Foundations of Information Systems, ch. 2: Data Management and Information Systems Business Strategies · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 51–90 · for registered students
- Principles of Management, ch. 10.2–10.3: Organisational change and managing change · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 278–298 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
