Exploring and quantifying the impact of rapidly evolving digital technologies and AI as they reshape end-to-end (E2E) supply chains
What is the Digital Supply Chain Transformation Initiative?
Digital Supply Chain Transformation is the strategic imperative for competitive advantage in today’s volatile landscape. It fundamentally reshapes operational capabilities, granting organizations the essential agility and resilience they need. This shift secures measurable impacts, including:
- Up to 50% process cost reductions.
- Up to 20% new revenue gains.
- Increased trust in AI decisions.
- Exponential scalability for processes.
Our Research Initiatives
Human-AI Collaboration
By combining human insights with the power of artificial intelligence, organizations are fundamentally upgrading their core operational performance.
Scaling End-To-End Automation Roadmap
Exploring how to move from automation pilot projects to full integration, from suppliers to final customers, fundamentally transforming core tasks to deliver exponential operational output.
Autonomous Operations
Achieving true operational independence, where systems self-manage to guarantee consistent and efficient performance.
Executive Education
Supply Chain Management: Leading with AI and Digital Transformation
This 6-week online executive program, offered with MITx Pro and Emeritus, provides a holistic view of digital transformation in the supply chain. The curriculum focuses on the strategic perspective and the necessary digital supply chain visions and capabilities. We examine real case studies and essential topics for discussions, including:
- Digital Supply Chain Transformation Roadmaps
- End-to-End Visibility
- Human-AI Collective Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence
- New Technological Trends in Supply Chain Management
Selected Research Partners
Highlights
Human-AI Collaboration: Boosting Supply Chain Performance
Digital Twins for Warehouse Operations
Study of 17 cross-industry case studies of large-size, international companies actively involved.
Education for Chief Digital Officers
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”.
How AI Is Reshaping Supplier Negotiations
AI is starting to play a major role in how companies negotiate with suppliers. These advancements are driven by the need for greater speed, scalability, and strategic agility due to increasingly complex supply chains and disruptions caused by external factors such as weather and trade wars. Once a cost-saving tool for automating low-value, repetitive negotiations, AI is now being used to make key decisions in procurement.
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Contact Us
1 Amherst Street, MIT Building E40-379
Cambridge, MA 02142
United States
digitalsc@mit.edu