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In this Q&A, MIT's Yossi Sheffi discusses the complexities of modern supply chains and how AI, automation and robotics will affect the future of supply chain employment.

Jane Singer interviews Dr. Yossi Sheffi, an award-winning global supply chain expert and Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. According to Dr. Sheffi, the pandemic was proof of how resilient supply chains actually are. He further challenges our conventional wisdom by arguing that despite the power of AI, there are many things that we still need people to do.

Global supply chains are immense feats of technological and organizational sophistication. They are also, as the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic showed, vulnerable to unexpected developments. Will that change as artificial intelligence becomes a bigger part of supply chains? And what will happen to workers in the process? MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi explores these topics in a new book, “The Magic Conveyor Belt: AI, Supply Chains, and the Future of Work,”

In a new book, the founder of MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics examines how increasingly automated industries can sustain jobs.

Smith, in discussion with Center for Transportation and Logistics Director Yossi Sheffi, reflects on 50 years in business and building for the future.

Join MIT Global SCALE Connect for an in-depth conversation with Paul Granadillo, SVP Global Supply Chain at Moderna. MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi speaks with Paul about how the pandemic vaccine response reshaped manufacturing, business, and supply chains at Moderna.

Shelves at the pet food aisle are looking bare recently, leaving some pet owners scrambling to find the foods their animals need. It's a shortage issue that stems from the global supply chain woes that continues to affect nearly every industry, including pet products. "Demand for goods started going through the roof," noted Yossi Sheffi, director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics and a chain supply professor. Sheffi said the pandemic has led to an increase in pet adoptions, and therefore an increase in pet spending.

Professor Yossi Sheffi, one of the world's leading scholars in the field of supply chain management. Regarding the cause of the global supply chain crisis triggered by the novel coronavirus pandemic, Professor Sheffi said, “The Federal Reserve (the central bank of the United States) can solve trillions of dollars right away with a single signature, but parts or finished products can cost thousands of miles.

Mecalux sat down with Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, to talk about how Covid-19 is reshaping businesses and supply chains -and what's coming next. 

Most of us know that the COVID vaccines from Moderna, Pfizer and J&J were developed, approved and rolled out to the public in record time, and on a global basis. But few of us understand the heroic effort that happened behind the scenes to make this a reality.