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Print ArticleCambridge, MA: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Transportation and Logistics (MIT-CTL) has announced the creation of the MIT Global SCALE Network, an international alliance of leading research and education centers dedicated to the development of supply chain and logistics excellence through innovation.
The Global SCALE (Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence) Network spans North America, Latin America, and Europe, with plans to expand into Asia and Africa. The Network currently includes: the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT-CTL) in Cambridge, MA; the Zaragoza Logistics Center(ZLC) in Zaragoza, Spain; and the Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation(CLI) in Bogotá, Colombia.
The Network will allow faculty, researchers, students and affiliated companies from all three centers to pool their expertise and collaborate on projects that will create supply chain and logistics innovations with global applications and help companies to compete in an increasingly complex business environment.
"Today's supply chains stretch around the world and back again, requiring successful organizations to have an on-the-ground understanding of the logistics, supply chain and general business challenges and opportunities in every region. The Global SCALE Network will provide that global context through research projects that will literally be taking place around the world," says MIT-CTL director Yossi Sheffi, a professor of engineering systems at MIT and director of the Engineering Systems Division.
The Network will also enhance supply chain and logistics education at each center. Graduate students at MIT-CTL, ZLC and CLI will not only benefit from the shared knowledge created through this collaboration, but will also participate in the Network's global research projects and take part in an educational exchange, traveling to other Network centers and learning alongside other Network students.
For more information, visit the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT-CTL) at: http://ctl.mit.edu.
