Graduate supply chain management students from all over the world competed on randomly-assigned teams last month on two supply-chain challenges held as part of the 2022 SCALE Connect academic conference. Read more and see which teams won the Shark Tank-style challenge and the SCALE Supply Chain Challenge business case competition!
The 2022 SCALE Connect conference ended in a whirlwind of group project presentations and awards ceremonies. One of the team-based challenges of the conference is the annual entrepreneurial challenge competition: a product development and pitch challenge sponsored by the ASCM Massachusetts Minuteman chapter, in the style of the hit TV show "Shark Tank". Randomly assigned student teams propose and pitch solutions to problems on the UN Global Issues List.
Graduate supply chain management students from the MIT Global Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) Network put their heads together last month to find solutions to real-world supply chain problems in the second annual MIT Supply Chain Challenge.
Each team had 14 days from receiving its data set to come up with an innovative, feasible, and effective solution to present to the sponsor company.
MIT's Supply Chain Management master's program has been ranked #1 SCM master's in the world by QS Quacquarelli Symonds for the second consecutive year. For its 2022 rankings, QS evaluated SCM master’s programs in 19 countries and ranked MIT SCM #1 based on indicators including alumni outcomes, employability, thought leadership, and value for money, as well as reputation among industry professionals and academics.
The 10-month ZLOG program has been ranked #1 master's degree in Engineering Logistics and Supply Chain Management by El Mundo for the 11th consecutive year. Read more on ZLC's site...
MIT SCALE master’s programs in Supply Chain Management have been ranked #1 in the world by Paris-based EdUniversal for the sixth consecutive year. Read more...
The 13th annual MIT SCALE Supply Chain Research Expo took place January 19-22 as an online event, drawing its largest audience ever to explore research projects-in-progress by graduate-level supply chain management students from around the world. Read more...
A new book collecting insights from MIT CTL researchers and others, Supply Chain Management and Logistics in Emerging Markets: Selected Papers from the 2018 MIT–Scale Latin America Conference, has just been published in hardcover and digital formats. The collection of research was edited by Hugo Yoshizaki, Christopher Mejía Argueta, and Marina Guimarães Mattos.
ZLC led work on development and delivery of a master's level pilot MOOC as part of the HELP initiative (Healthcare logistics Education and Learning Pathway), a three-year project funded from the ERASMUS+ Programme and coordinated by LAB University of Applied Sciences, Finland. The aim has been to develop educational programs for healthcare logistics.
Higher education research leader QS Quacquarelli Symonds has recognized the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics' Supply Chain Management master's program as the #1 SCM master's program in the world in its 2021 university program rankings. Read more...