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What are Sustainable Supply Chains?
Supply chains are a powerful mechanism for connecting people and products, providing a ready venue for industry and stakeholders to collaboratively advance the Sustainable Development Goals. As consumers, governments and investors become increasingly conscious of environmental and social issues, many companies seek to address their concerns by reconsidering their supply chains. But identifying, and more importantly, finding appropriate solutions for better and more sustainable systems proves challenging to most corporations that need to carefully balance competing business objectives and priorities.
The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics launched Sustainable Supply Chains in 2018 as an umbrella program that brings together our sustainability research, education, and outreach. Our mission is to support organizations to improve logistics and supply chain operations by creating applied and innovative research aimed at fostering growth while considering environmental and social sustainability.
Our mission is to support organizations to improve logistics and supply chain operations by creating applied and innovative research aimed at fostering growth while considering environmental and social sustainability. We connect research outcomes to practical settings, enabling companies and stakeholders to leverage supply chains as a beneficial force to reaching global sustainable development goals. We seek to improve visibility of supply chain impacts and develop strategies to help reduce them, so companies can better address consumer, political, and shareholder concerns.
Sustainable Supply Chain Management – MIT.SCM.290x
Transform your organization’s climate pledges into actionable strategies through better supply chain management. Modeled on our for-credit MIT course, SCM290x provides the foundation for you to meet stakeholders’ demands for supply chain sustainability.
This instructor-paced course starts on 8 November 2022 and runs through 17 January 2023. Enrollment is free.
Current Research Initiatives
Sustainable Supply Chain engages in research with industry-leading companies, institutions and fellow academics.
State of Supply Chain Sustainability
Carbon Footprint
Supply Chain Traceability
Communicating Supply Chain Sustainability
Circular Supply Chains
More Sustainable Research at MIT CTL
The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics has several Sustainable initiatives that aim to connect research outcomes to practical settings, enabling companies and stakeholders to leverage supply chains as a beneficial force to reaching sustainable development goals.
Sustainable Logistics Initiative
MegaCity Logistics Lab
Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab
Our Research Partners
Sustainable Supply Chain Updates
Introduction to Supply Chain Management and Logistics in Latin America
Within a variety of countries considered emerging economies, Latin America has received special attention in the last years. The region accounts for more than 625 million people with approximately 5% of the total world Gross Domestic Product (GDP; ECLAC Report Latin America, 2016).
Supply Chain Management for Micro and Small Firms in Latin America
In this chapter, we discuss the connection between MSEs’ productivity growth and SCM. We present key takeaways from the literature and summarized different research approaches used to study this emerging field, specifically related to the impact of the size of the company, the use of surveys to gather data, and the importance of field interventions.
Driver Behavior Impact
Drivers play a leading role in the determination of fuel efficiency. Therefore this research aims to diagnose the key factors that influence the fuel consumption in heavy duty fleet. This project considers factors such as driver’s behavior, driving errors, driver’s...
Bikesharing (BSS) Model for Urban Design
This study presents a methodology to face the challenges that cities face in selecting sustainable and cost-effective transportation modes, helping planners make choices that can be expressed not only in monetary terms but also in environmental benefits associated with...
New Accounting Guidelines for Sustainable Aviation Fuels coming Summer 2021 via collaboration with @smartfreightctr #MIT #Sustainablefuel #MIT #SmartFreightCentre #2021SAFGuidelines @MITSustainChain @hickmana @varney2 https://sustainable.mit.edu/sustainablefuel/
Within the last two decades, GHG emissions from aviation have increased by 50% as passenger flight activity has grown two and a half times. Guidelines coming summer 2021 - https://sustainable.mit.edu/sustainablefuel/ #sustainable #aviation
What's in the new MIT Climate Action Plan? We will expand our network of climate leaders with at least 20 faculty hires, mid-career ignition grants for climate research, and up to 100 new student fellowships in climate & sustainability. https://climate.mit.edu/climateaction/fastforward
MIT has released an ambitious new plan for action to address the world’s accelerating climate crisis. “Our approach is to build on what the MIT community does best — and then aspire for still more,” says Vice President for Research @maria_zuber .
https://news.mit.edu/2021/climate-action-net-zero-2026-0512
Companies are pursuing sustainability in their #SupplyChains to reduce repetitional risk and increase brand equity, but what are the barriers to achieving supply chain #Sustainability success? @hickmana @KellenBetts @varney2 @MITSustainChain #MIT https://medium.com/mitsupplychain/barriers-to-sustainability-why-suppliers-are-part-of-the-problem-and-the-solution-8a9c915996ea
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