Tackle Your Supply Chain Challenges

Collaborate with seasoned MIT SCM students and researchers to tackle your supply chain challenges head-on. MIT SCM students and MIT CTL faculty work to solve your company’s real-world supply chain challenge. Through a 10-month partnership, your team can gain actionable insights and timely solutions for issues including truckload procurement, reducing freight and inventory holding costs, data-driven forecasting to improve inventory management, improving the freshness of perishable products, and many more.

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Previous Capstone Projects

Below are a few summaries from previous capstone projects, which include recommendations for each sponsor company based on key insights from simulations and frameworks developed by MIT SCM students. You can view the full results of the research published by Supply Chain Management Review.

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Capstone Summary

Is Co-Location the Next Big Game-Changer in Supply Chain?

The strategy of locating supplier facilities near each other could offer freight and inventory holding costs greater than 70%.

Capstone Summary

Truckload Procurement: From State-of-the-Practice to State-of-the-Art

The U.S. full truckload (FTL) market is uniquely challenging for shippers to navigate because of its high degree of market fragmentation, competitiveness, and magnitude. This study aims to establish “state-of-the-practice” behaviors as well as highlight “state-of-the-art” behaviors in full truckload procurement organizations.

Capstone Summary

Deliver Fresher Food: A Pick-to-Zero Transformation for Retailers

Retailers can stock fresher food by adopting a pick-to-zero warehouse strategy, as simulations reveal significant improvements in the freshness of perishable products.

Capstone Summary

From Reactive to Proactive: Mitigating Semiconductor Delivery in an Oil & Gas Company

Data-driven approach improves forecasting, resulting in more effective inventory management.