Past Appearances

Join IBM and Professor Yossi Sheffi for a conversation about how supply chains adjust for a different looking future in the wake of a global pandemic.  Professor Yossi will share insights from his recent book, "The New (Ab)normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy Beyond Covid-19", including how supply chains must change to be ready for the next big disruptions.  Ask your most pressing questions of our expert panel of technologists who are helping create the supply chain platforms of the future.

We all know it: the best way to hit tight shipping deadlines and meet customer SLAs is to release orders to be picked as soon as they come in. Or is it? Using actionable insights from 6RS software, leading hardware distributor Top Notch increased operational efficiency and lowered their cost per pick by doing something unexpected. Hear from Top Notch, Director of Operations, Patrick Houlihan, as well as Nick Fernandez, 6RS Performance Engineer and Callie Moriarty, 6RS Solutions Executive, as share what they learned and how they used that knowledge to improve rates while hitting SLAs.

Private event with MIT & Pepsi

The primary goal of the Last Mile Routing Research Challenge is to encourage participants to develop innovative approaches leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and other non-conventional methods to produce solutions to the route sequencing problem that outperform traditional, optimization-driven operations research methods in terms of solution quality and computational cost.

Listen to this on-demand webinar to hear MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi, along with Dr. Madhav Durbha from Coupa, discuss the key findings from Prof. Sheffi's latest book, The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy.

Private talk given during the 2021 MicroMaster's Bootcamp course. The MIT Supply Chain Bootcamps are an intense MIT educational experience specifically designed for our MicroMasters® community of learners.

Preparing for a crisis is not a luxury; it is a necessity. The COVID-19 pandemic has proven this. You know the odds are high that your company will suffer, or has experienced, a disaster or crisis. You cannot say you weren't ready; today's extreme public and government scrutiny demand that you should have been prepared. MIT's Crisis Management & Business Resiliency course will help prepare you for the inevitable.

Hosted by Dr. Chris Caplice, Chief Scientist with FMIC, and Dr. Inam Iyoob, Principle of Global Freight Market Intelligence at FMIC, Freightvine cuts through speculation and rumors to get to the bottom of what’s happening in the transportation markets. Each episode, Dr. Caplice and Dr. Iyoob speak with industry experts to lift the uncertainty that clouds the freight marketplace.

Professor Yossi Sheffi joins Chris Caplice to give him exclusive insights from his latest book, The New (Ab)Normal. Listen now to hear more!

Professor Yossi Sheffi joins Meri Stevens, Worldwide vice president supply chain at Johnson & Johnson, and Ed Barribal, Partner at McKinsey and Company, for a panel discussion. They will speak on how Covid-19 vaccine distribution made the cold chain the hottest topic in logistics, while exploring how companies are applying pandemic learnings to their supply chains.