CHAINalytics

APRIL 2, 2020

Supply chain design expert Steve Ellet joins host Chris Caplice for this conversation. Episode 17 of the Freightvine podcast explores the benefits of supply chain network modeling when unforeseen scenarios like COVID-19 happen. And why it’s important to get transportation costs right in these models.

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CHAINalytics

APRIL 16, 2020

Joining host Chris Caplice to discuss their work on the Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative are his MIT colleagues Alexis Bateman and Suzanne Greene. This week’s Freightvine podcast episode examines the challenges facing freight transportation in the effort to reduce its environmental impact.

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CHAINalytics

APRIL 29, 2020

Freightvine host Chris Caplice and Coyote Logistics’ Chief Strategy Officer Chris Pickett discuss how the pandemic in progress continues to alter the freight market and the possible insights derived about the broader economy and the recovery to come.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2023

Yossi Sheffi on LinkedIn The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics on LinkedIn MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, A.I.,

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CHAINalytics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Chris Caplice, Executive Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics and Chief Scientist at Chainalytics, states “we humans are … The post Planning the Future Supply Chain appeared first on Chainalytics. However, history has shown the opposite.

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CHAINalytics

MAY 28, 2020

In the latest episode of the Freightvine, Bridgestone’s Brad Blizzard joins host Chris Caplice to discuss how the company is dealing with slumping demand by offsetting the cost of their private and dedicated fleets.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 13, 2015

Tactic Sounds Good in Theory, but Falls Apart in Execution, Caplice Now Says

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Chris Caplice. With years of rideshare driver experience under his belt, he understands the transportation landscape, tools to navigate the arena and helps those in the rideshare industry work smarter not harder. TheRideShareGuy.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Earlier this year, in a presentation at the Manhattan Momentum Connect conference, Dr. Chris Caplice from MIT argued that “the dominant design in transportation procurement is now outdated and it’s time to transform the process.” I encourage you to read my brief summary of his presentation for more details, but here’s a key quote from.

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MIT Supply Chain

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

SCx will teach the same concepts but to thousands – not dozens – of students at a time worldwide,” says Dr. Chris Caplice, Executive Director, MIT CTL. This is a more integrated approach, and stresses the connections and interactions between the players and functions within a supply chain,” explains Caplice.

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MIT Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Dr. Chris Caplice, Executive Director of MIT CTL, who conceived and designed CTL.SC1x, will give a talk about the lessons learned at MIT CTL’s Crossroads 2015 conference, March 24, 2015, at the MIT campus, Cambridge, MA. “The Videos work well because individuals can use them at their own pace,” says Caplice.

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 26, 2016

SC2x explores how you set up and design the entire supply chain system,” says Chris Caplice, Executive Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. The second of five online courses, CTL.SC2x (Supply Chain Design), in MIT CTL’s supply chain MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), opened for enrollment on May 18, 2016.

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MIT Supply Chain

APRIL 1, 2022

Anyone interested should reach out FreightLab Co-Directors David Correll and Chris Caplice at freightlab@mit.edu. We are looking for two to three representatives from the shipper, carrier, broker, and possibly the solutions vendor communities. What Works and What Doesn’t at Truckload Freight Appointments?

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 22, 2023

Chris Caplice, chief scientist with DAT Freight & Analytics , lays out the dynamics of a business that's constantly riding the ups and downs of supply and demand. The truckload market never stands still.

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CHAINalytics

JULY 6, 2021

Roy Ananny, a Director in the Transportation practice at Chainalytics, joins DAT Freight & Analytics’ Chief Scientist Chris Caplice on the Freightvine podcast to discuss current trends in TMS and how to implement and keep up your very own.

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DAT Solutions

JUNE 4, 2020

This week, DAT Chief of Analytics Ken Adamo speaks with Chris Caplice; Chief Scientist at Chainalytics, Executive Director of Center for Transportation and Logistics, and Senior Research Scientist at MIT. Chris will be transitioning to DAT as part of the recent FMIC acquisition. Watch Ken and Chris discuss further in this interview.

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CHAINalytics

MARCH 23, 2021

Kevin Zweier, our Vice President, Transportation, joined DAT Freight & Analytics’ Dr. Chris Caplice for a recent episode of the Freightvine. They discussed key procurement strategies shippers are using to deal with COVID-19 disruptions and which of those might remain in place when the pandemic is history.

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MIT Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

This method of teaching has a number of serious drawbacks, explains Dr. Chris Caplice, MIT CTL Executive Director. These problems are well known, yet as Caplice points out, class formats have remained largely unchanged. Students in multiple tiers of seats take notes and, ideally, pepper the talk with questions.

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 16, 2013

For more information on MIT CTL’s Supply Chain Analytics Roundtable, April 18, 2013, contact the center’s Executive Director, Dr. Chris Caplice at: caplice@mit.edu. By Ken Cottrill, Global Communications Consultant, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, kencott@mit.edu.

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Supply Chain Digest

JANUARY 5, 2015

Chris Caplice of MIT Says that Unfortunately, it Really Does Not Exist'

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MIT Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Chris Caplice and Jarrod Goentzel have developed a framework for assessing the potential impact of adopting various technologies within freight transportation, which will appear in a forthcoming World Bank book, Transformative Technologies in Transport.

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MIT Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

An empirical analysis of carrier reciprocity in dynamic freight markets, by Angela Acocella, Chris Caplice, and Yossi Sheffi, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, October 20, 2020. For a detailed account of the research described in this post see the paper: Elephants or Goldfish?:

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MIT Supply Chain

JANUARY 24, 2014

Part of the program included fast and furious presentations from faculty members such as Yossi Sheffi, Bruce Arntzen, Jim Rice and Chris Caplice. Last night, I got a glimpse into the up and comers at MIT’s Research Expo 2014.

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 1, 2014

This post is based on the article Balancing Robustness and Flexibility in Transportation Networks , by Dr. Chris Caplice, Executive Director, MIT CTL, and Dr. Francisco Jauffred, MIT CTL, published in the March/April 2014 issue of Supply Chain Brain. Read the full article here. .

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MIT Supply Chain

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The project was supervised by Dr. Chris Caplice, Executive Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics. They developed a Java tool that decides in an instant whether or not to accept loads depending on the order location and time of receipt. Pathways to a verdict.

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MIT Supply Chain

DECEMBER 15, 2020

by Chris Caplice, David Correll, and Ken Cottrill When a shipper and a trucking company contract to transport goods at a given time and rate, there is no guarantee they will meet the agreement’s terms. The loads may never materialize, or the carrier may not have the capacity in the right place when it is scheduled to haul the cargo.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many companies are getting ready for (or perhaps have already completed) their annual transportation procurement engagement. But has the time come to transform the transportation procurement process?

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MIT Supply Chain

JANUARY 2, 2014

Dr. Chris Caplice, Executive Director, MIT CTL, can be contacted at: caplice@mit.edu. Density by design. The modern smartphone packs multiple devices into a single unit.

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MIT Supply Chain

JANUARY 16, 2014

Dr. Chris Caplice is MIT CTL’s Executive Director and he can be contacted at: caplice@mit.edu. The rapid adoption of omni-channel retailing by outlets such as Macy’s underlines both the changing face of the business and the strategy’s supply chain challenges.

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MIT Supply Chain

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

This article was written by Dr. Chris Caplice, Executive Director, MIT CTL, caplice@mit.edu. A curriculum for online learning that MIT CTL plans to launch next year will provide new sources of supply chain talent across the globe. The supply chain profession urgently needs to fix the problem of a chronic shortage of talent.

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MIT Supply Chain

JANUARY 11, 2021

Chris Caplice, Executive Director, MIT CTL, Founder & Co-Director, MIT FreightLab Develop and pilot a more dynamic truckload transportation procurement and management process. Advance and pilot innovative circular supply chain solutions for end-of-life takeback across different channels.

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MIT Supply Chain

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The work is described in a recent column by Dr. Shardul Phadnis, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT CTL, and Dr. Chris Caplice, Executive Director, MIT CTL, in the journal Supply Chain Management Review.

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MIT Supply Chain

JANUARY 30, 2014

Dr. Chris Caplice is Executive Director. He can be contacted at: caplice@mit.edu. NASA aims to use 3D printing on the space station, a technology that is transforming products and possibly distribution networks (Photo: NASA).

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2021

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of a research report published last week, “Powered by the Network A Platform Approach to Matching Freight Demand with Capacity More Efficiently.”

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Talking Logistics

MAY 21, 2020

“Adaptation is critical,” said Eddie Capel, Manhattan Associates’ CEO, in his opening comments yesterday at Manhattan Momentum Connect 2020. He was referring to companies and their supply chains, especially in light of the challenges and disruptions caused by COVID-19.

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MIT Supply Chain

OCTOBER 28, 2020

by Eva Ponce and Chris Caplice A surge in the number of registrants and verified learners in the MITx MicroMasters® Program in Supply Chain Management attests to the increasing appeal of online education during the Covid-19 pandemic. The numbers also suggest that supply chain management?—?a a subject popularized by the pandemic?—?is

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MIT Supply Chain

JULY 31, 2014

This article is based on the Harvard Business Review blog post A Better Approach to Infrastructure Planning by Dr. Chris Caplice, Executive Director, MIT CTL, and MIT CTL Researcher Dr. Shardul Phadis, published July 10, 2014.

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