At the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
MIT Digital Supply Chain Transformation
Understanding new collaborative paradigms that arise during digital supply chain transformations
What is the Digital Supply Chain Transformation Initiative?
- Digital Supply Chain Transformation is the analysis of digital technology and data to the transition towards value-driven supply chains.
- Digital technology is accelerating the pace of business and transforming supply chains.
- Transforming the supply chain digitally can lead up to a 50% reduction in process costs and an increase in revenue by 20%.
- One of the challenges: inter-organizational collaboration changes during digital transformations.
Our Research Areas
Multidimensional Collaboration
When companies jointly implement new technologies, collaboration can take multiple forms. Collaboration becomes a key driver of competitive advantage.
Digital Supply Chain Capabilities
Essential for today’s digital SC, at the individual, organizational as well as at the supply chain level, dynamic capabilities enable successful transformation.
Artificial Intelligence and Supply Chain Management
AI promises to augment human capabilities and reshape companies. The reality of AI adoption in SCM finds itself deep in a cosmos of apparent contradictions.
Research Team

Dr. Maria Jesus Saenz
Founder and Director
Exec. Director SCM, MIT CTL
Digital SC Transformation

Dr. Ozden Tozanli
Postdoctoral Associate
MIT CTL
Digital Twins

Dr. Devadrita Nair
Postdoctoral Associate
MIT CTL
Human-AI Forecasting

Dr. Jafar Namdar
Postdoctoral Associate
MIT CTL
Human-AI Collaboration

Dr. Eva Ponce
Executive Director
Micro Masters, MIT CTL
Omni-channel

Dr. Inma Borrella
Research Scientist
MIT CTL
Digital Strategy

Dr. Ilya Jackson
Postdoctoral Associate
MIT SCM
AI in SCs
International Research Collaborators

DR. CARL MARCUS WALLENBURG
Professor
Otto Beisheim School of Management

Dr. Davide Luzzini
Professor
EADA Business School

PROF. ELENA REVILLA
Professor
IE Business School

Prof. Cristina Simon
Professor
MIT CTL
Human-AI Collaboration

Dr. Christoph Maria Lennartz
Research Assistant
WHU

Dr. Michela Guida
Assistant Professor
Politecnico de Milano
Student Research Assistants
Yusong (Simon) Wei
SCM Master’s Graduate ‘23
Prateek Tewari
SCM Master’s Graduate ‘23
Moutaz Ali
SCM Master’s Graduate ‘23
Yumeng (CC) Chen
SCM Master’s Graduate ‘23
Alexandros Mamakos
SCM Master’s Graduate ‘22
Ibrahim AlArfaj
SCM Master’s Graduate ‘22
Yalcin Arslan
SCM Master’s Graduate ‘22
Mykola Oleksyn
SCM Master’s Graduate ‘22
Tony Kook
SCM Master’s Graduate ‘22
Ricardo Guadarrama Arias
SCM Master’s Graduate ‘22
Abdulrahman Gweder
SCM Master’s Graduate ‘22
Highlights
Get the latest in supply chain thought leadership, education, development, and research by following our news blog.
Keynote speaker, The Logistics World Summit, Mexico April 2023
Multidimensional collaboration in last-mile delivery: the role of digital platforms.

DPW Amsterdam September 2022
Boundary Spanners Are Essential For Your Digital Value Ecosystem
Watch the following video to learn how leaders for developing digital supply chains need to adopt a boundary-spanning mindset in order to facilitate collaboration, experimentation, and trust across organizational boundaries, using a data-driven language.
Education for Chief Digital Officers, July 2023
Last July 2023 Dr. Maria Jesus Saenz participated in the MIT Professional Education Program “Chief Digital Officer”, with her talk “Digital Supply Chain Transformation, From Strategy to Technology and Operations”.
Executive Education in Digital Supply Chain Transformation
MIT Digital Supply Chain Transformation offers courses in Executive Education.
Warehouse of the Future (CPG)
Towards an efficient manufacturing digital transformation: what is technologically compatible, organizationally adaptable, and economically viable.
Contact Us
Contact Us
1 Amherst Street, MIT Building E40-376
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States
+1 617 253 8235
digitalsc@mit.edu