This week’s topics
Strategic Logistics Management and Contemporary Challenges
- Competitive advantage through logistics systems
- Supply chain volatility and geopolitical disruption
- Digital transformation and IoT integration
- Decarbonisation and ESG pressures in logistics
- From Cost Center to Competitive Advantage - The Coming Decade of Supply Chain Management
- Supply Chain Risk Management in 2024
- A Conversation on Digital Supply Chain Transformation
What you will be able to do
- 1.1 Analyse current issues in logistics and their relevance and effects on organisations.
- 1.2 Evaluate the benefits of having an effective logistics management system in an organisation.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse current issues in logistics and their relevance and effects on organisations.
Study materials
Videos
- From Cost Center to Competitive Advantage - The Coming Decade of Supply Chain Management · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 47 min · for registered students
- Supply Chain Risk Management in 2024 · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 51 min · for registered students
- A Conversation on Digital Supply Chain Transformation · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 62 min · for registered students
- The ins and outs of sustainable supply chains | LSE Event · YouTube · LSE · 80 min · for registered students
- Supply chain management · YouTube · The Open University Business School · 59 min · for registered students
- Rethinking Supply Chain Resilience Amid Tariffs and Turbulence · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 57 min · for registered students
- Supply Chain Risk Management and X shoring · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 60 min · for registered students
- The Future of Supply Chains with L’Oréal’s Chief Supply Chain Officer, NA · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 51 min · for registered students
- AI, Omnichannel, and the Future of Supply Chain · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 47 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Future of freight: a long-term plan (DfT, 2022) · PDF · GOV.UK, report; 134 pages · for registered students
- UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport 2025 · PDF · Un, report; 173 pages · for registered students
- The GSCPI: A New Barometer of Global Supply Chain Pressures · PDF · Reading, article · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
