This week’s topics
Strategic Logistics and Global Network Design
- Multimodal transport optimisation
- Reverse logistics and circular economy loops
- Hub-and-spoke infrastructure design
- Logistics performance enhancement factors
- Network Design of Global Supply Chain
- Supply chain network design and inventory management for cost-efficient, in-time, perfect deliveries
- MIT SC3x - Circular Economy & Circular Supply Chains
What you will be able to do
- 3.1 Justify the importance and use of logistics in supply chain management in an organisation.
- 3.3 Critically analyse factors that may improve logistics and procurement strategies in an organisation.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: justify the importance and use of logistics in supply chain management in an organisation.
Study materials
Videos
- Supply chain network design and inventory management for cost-efficient, in-time, perfect deliveries · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 50 min · for registered students
- MIT SC3x - Circular Economy & Circular Supply Chains · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 61 min · for registered students
- Visual Analytics for Supply Chain Design · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 49 min · for registered students
- Supply Chain Risk Management and X shoring · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 60 min · for registered students
Further resources
- MIT OCW ESD.260J Logistics Systems (Fall 2006), Supply chain network design · PDF · MIT OpenCourseWare, slides · for registered students
- MIT OCW ESD.260J Logistics Systems (Fall 2006), Transportation I: fundamentals and strategic networks · PDF · MIT OpenCourseWare, slides · for registered students
- Future of freight: a long-term plan (DfT, 2022) · PDF · GOV.UK, report; 134 pages · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
