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In this adaptation from his latest book, The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, A.I., and the Future of Work, Dr. 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.

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. 

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.

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.

Read an excerpt from Professor Yossi Sheffi's 2023 book, The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, A.I., and the Future of Work

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. 

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)

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.

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.

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.