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Published Date
July 28, 2023
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Modern Materials Handling
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In this adaptation from his latest book, The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, A.I., and the Future of WorkDr. Yossi Sheffi of MIT’s Center for Transportation & Logistics explores how education and training must change to prepare the supply chain workforce for a technology-focused future.

Published Date
July 10, 2023
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ISSUU - Breakbulk Magazine
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Fears that AI-driven tech will replace humans in countless jobs are well-founded. This is especially the case in industries such as breakbulk cargo logistics, which are relatively labor intensive. 

Published Date
June 15, 2023
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Workable
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Dr. Yossi Sheffi of MIT shares how AI is reshaping the workplace and uncover strategies to adapt and thrive in an evolving job market. Learn how emerging technologies support remote work, create new opportunities, and augment human capabilities.

Published Date
June 01, 2023
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Built In
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The AI-based industrial revolution will be different from previous ones in several key ways, but that doesn’t mean it will displace the human workforce. Our expert explains why — and how we can prepare now.

Published Date
May 22, 2023
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MIT Sloan: Ideas Made to Matter
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Read an excerpt from Professor Yossi Sheffi's 2023 book, The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, A.I., and the Future of Work

Published Date
May 01, 2022
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Professor Yossi Sheffi is delighted that LOGYCA – an organization born out of the need to foster and improve collaboration in business – has published a book on this critically important topic. He writes the preface to the book. 

Published Date
February 21, 2022
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Supply Chain Quarterly
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Pharmaceutical companies faced many challenges when it came to producing and distributing the new COVID-19 vaccines. One that received the most attention? The need to keep the new mRNA vaccines super cold during shipment and distribution. (Excerpt from "A SHOT IN THE ARM: HOW SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, AND SUPPLY CHAINS CONVERGED TO VACCINATE THE WORLD)

Published Date
February 07, 2022
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The National News
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Of the countless problems the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown at companies, a global shortage of microchips is one of the most pernicious. Eventually, the supply of chips will recover, but will affected markets then return to normality? The likely answer is no. In dealing with the scarcity of chips and associated impact on production schedules, markets have helped to seed another crisis in the form of a global economic recession.

Published Date
January 30, 2022
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The Wall Street Journal
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Pandemic-related issues such as product shortages have raised questions about the viability of “just-in-time” supply chains and the role lean strategies may play in the strained availability of manufacturing components and consumer goods.

Published Date
January 05, 2022
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The Forum Network
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What can the pandemic teach us about the supply chains of the future?

Adapted from The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy Beyond Covid-19. Copyright (c) 2020 by Yossi Sheffi. Used with permission of the publisher, MIT CTL Media Cambridge, Mass. All rights reserved.