Supply Chain Strategy

January 23, 2016

Supply Chain Management Review

The controversy over reshoring has flared up again thanks largely to some research published by the managing consulting firm A. T. Kearney in December 2015.

Second Thoughts on Second Sourcing

July 08, 2016

MIT Sloan Management Review

Not keeping all of your eggs in one supply basket is an appealing strategy to increase supply chain resilience. But it’s not always effective.

Walmart warehouse temps add flexibility -- and save money?

November 27, 2012

Marketplace

Yossi Sheffi, who directs MIT's Center for Transportation and Logistics and just published a book, "Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth," counters that utilizing temps isn’t the secret sauce that allows Walmart to operate so cheaply. He says the key to Walmart’s low prices is extreme flexibility to adjust the labor force to match market demand.

Dissemination of good practices for resilience in Supply Chain Management

Grands Auteurs

January 17, 2017

Throughout his career, Yossi Sheffi has been interested in many important topics of logistics and Supply Chain Management (SCM). Yossi Sheffi is best known for having disseminated and popularized the concept and practices of resilience among managers, students and academia. But, how has Yossi Sheffi's research evolved over the course of his career? In his methodology?

Poker and Random Bunching The Tech

The Tech

October 31, 2006

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