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The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) is a dynamic solutions-oriented environment where students, faculty, and industry leaders pool their knowledge and experience to advance supply chain education and research.

    Part of the MIT School of Engineering, MIT CTL:

    • Coordinates more than 100 supply chain research efforts across the MIT campus and around the world
    • Educates students and corporate leaders in the essential principles of supply chain management
    • Helps organizations increase productivity and decrease their economic and environmental impact

    Launched in 1973, MIT CTL has changed the way the world works by innovating essential industries and services through supply chain management. Strategically positioned at the crossroads of technology and business, MIT CTL enables researchers to:

    • Transform the way urban planners and officials think about transportation systems
    • Set the foundation for current global practice in airline scheduling and flight operations
    • Develop more carbon-efficient supply chains to help organizations reduce their environmental footprint

    MIT–CTL Supply Chain Management Programs:

    Master's programs leading to a Master of Applied Science in Supply Chain Management OR a Master of Engineering in Supply Chain Management awarded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management Certificate, awarded by MIT Global SCALE Network

    10-month residential program (SCMr) and 5-month blended program (SCMb, available to MicroMaster's Credential holders)


    This center also offers:

    Research

    Based in the MIT School of Engineering in Cambridge, USA, MIT CTL maintains extensive ties with other MIT schools.  CTL founded the MIT SCALE global network of affiliated research centers in Asia, Europe, and South America to grow insight on global supply chains and to support and strengthen our efforts at developing and disseminating supply chain expertise around the world.

    MIT CTL is distinguished by a strong focus on solving real-world problems, deep domain expertise across geographies, and the resources of a world-leading research institute. More than 75 faculty members from multiple disciplines and an international network of researchers and students collaborate with some 50 corporate partners on MIT CTL’s cutting-edge research portfolio. 

    CTL's active research lines and labs include:

    Read more about CTL's research activities on the center's web site.

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    Faculty & Researchers

    MIT SCM Faculty photo: Jonathan Byrnes

    Jonathan Byrnes

    Senior Lecturer

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    Chris Caplice

    Senior Research Scientist, MIT
    Silver Family Research Fellow
    Executive Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
    Director, MicroMasters Credential Program in Supply Chain Management
    Founder & Director, MIT FreightLab

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    Chris Cassa

    Lecturer

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    David Correll

    Research Scientist

    Headshot of Jarrod Goentzel

    Jarrod Goentzel

    Director, MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab
    Principal Research Scientist
    Lecturer

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    Chris Mejía Argueta (MIT CTL)

    Director, MIT SCALE Network - Latin America
    Director, MIT Graduate Certificate in Logistics and SCM (GCLOG) program
    Founder & Director, MIT Food and Retail Operations Lab

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    Eva Ponce

    Executive Director, MITx MicroMasters in Supply Chain Management
    Director, Omnichannel Distribution Strategies

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    Jim Rice

    Deputy Director, Center for Transportation & Logistics
    Director, Supply Chain Exchange Program
    Lecturer

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    Maria Jesus Saenz

    Executive Director, MIT SCM Blended Master's Program
    Director, MIT Digital Supply Chain Transformation

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    Yossi Sheffi

    Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
    Director of the MIT Supply Chain Management Program
    Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
    Professor, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
    Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems, MIT

    Pamela Siska

    Pamela Siska

    Lecturer, Writing, Rhetoric and Professional Communication

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    Josué C. Velázquez Martínez

    Research Scientist, Lecturer
    Director, MIT Sustainable Supply Chains Lab
    Director, MIT GeneSys Lab

    Publications

    Paper

    Revenue Mangement in Last-Mile Delivery: State-of-the-Art and Future Research Directions

    Snoeck, Andre; Merchan, Daniel; Winkenbach, Matthias
    This paper explores future avenues of research for revenue management in last-mile delivery. First, we review earlier efforts in this field, which have focused primarily on the problem of attended home deliveries (AHD) of groceries...

    Supply Chain Management and Logistics in Latin America: A Multi-country Perspective
    Book

    Supply Chain Management and Logistics in Latin America: A Multi-Country Perspective

    CTL

    How Relevant is Latin America? Challenges and Opportunities. Latin America is a well recognized and growing market, but its poor infrastructure, explosive urbanization, expensive and inefficient logistics, and multiple social problems continue to pose major problems to logistics professionals and academics. The uniqueness and complexity of these issues have long daunted scholars, and there remains an important gap in the literature around Latin American supply chain management and logistics (SCM&L). Discover the full story with this collection of selected papers from 2016 MIT SCALE Latin

    Partners

    MIT CTL's Supply Chain Exchange is an active community of companies that share a common goal of leveraging cutting-edge research into competitive advantage. Learn more about benefits to joining the Supply Change Exchange.

    Ahold Delhaize

    American Industrial Partners

    Armada

    ATL Advisors

    Barcel

    Biomarin

    BMW

    CH Robinson

    CHEP

    Colgate

    Converse

    Coyote

     

    Dell

    CVS Health

    DP World

    Flex

    GlobalTranz

    Goodyear

    GSK

    Hershey's

    Intel 

    Iron Mountain

    Johnson & Johnson

    Lenovo

    Kinaxis

    Llamasoft

    Luxottica

    Maersk

    Matson

    Nestle

    New Balance

    Niagara Bottling

    Nordstrom

    ORR

    P&G 

    Roche

    Salesforce

    Schlumberger

    Schneider

    Shell

    Signet

    Starbucks

    Uber Technologies

    UPS 

    USTRANSCOM

    Walmart

    Waters

    Wayfair

    Xylem

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