Director, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics
Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
E-Mail: sheffi@mit.edu
Website: Sheffi.mit.edu
Professor Yossi Sheffi is Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL), and Director and Founder of the Master of Engineering in Logistics Program. He is an expert in systems optimization, risk analysis and supply chain management and is the author of a text book Urban Transportation Networks: Equilibrium Analysis with Mathematical Programming Methods (Prentice Hall, 1985) and two award-winning management books: The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage (MIT Press, 2005) and Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth (MIT Press, 2012). His new book: The Power of resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected is due out in September 2015
Under his leadership, the CTL has launched many educational, research, and industry/government outreach programs, including the MIT Master of Engineering in Logistics program in 1998, the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program in Spain in 2003, the Center for Latin America Logistics Innovation in 2007, and the Malaysia Center for Supply Chain Innovation in 2012. Collectively these centers operate as the Supply Chain and Logistics (SCALE) global network which he leads.
Outside the institute, Dr. Sheffi has consulted with numerous governments and leading manufacturing, retail and transportation enterprises all over the world. He has also founded or co-founded five successful companies: LogiCorp (acquired by Ryder in 1994); PTCG (acquired by Sabre in 1996); e-Chemicals (acquired by AspenTech in 2001); Logistics.com (acquired by Manhattan Associates in 2003), and Syncra Systems (acquired by Oracle in 2004).
Dr. Sheffi has been recognized in numerous ways in academic and industry forums. In 1997, he won the Distinguished Service Award given by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. He is also a life fellow of Cambridge University’s Clare Hall College.
He obtained his B.Sc. from the Technion in Israel in 1975, his S.M. from MIT in 1977, and Ph.D. from MIT in 1978.
Publications:
Sheffi, Y., Lynn, B. Systemic Supply Chain Risk, The Bridge – the journal of the National Academy of Science, 22-29, Fall 2014.
Sheffi, Y., Vakil, B., and Griffin T. Risk and Disruptions: New Software Tools, Supply Chain management Review, Executive Newsletter April 18th, 2012
Sheffi, Y. Business continuity: a systematic approach. Global Business and the Terrorist Threat. Ed. Harry W. Richardson, Peter Gordon, and James E. Moore II, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2009. 32-41.
Sheffi, Y. and Rice, J. A Supply Chain View of the Resilient Enterprise, MIT Sloan Management Review, 47 (1): 41-48, fall 2005.
Sheffi, Y. Preparing for the Big One, IEE Manufacturing Engineer, 84 (5): 12-15, Oct/Nov 2005.
Sheffi, Y. The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage, MIT Press, September 2005.
Sheffi, Y. Organizations and Processes to Meet the Threat of International Terrorism, in Kausel (ed.) in Fallen Towers: Engineering Response to International Terrorism, February 2004.
Sheffi, Y., Rice, J., Fleck, J., and Caniato, F. A Supply Chain Response to Global Terrorism: A Situation Scan
Paper presented at the Supply Chain Conference in the University of Milan, June 2003.
Sheffi, Y. Supply Chain Management Under the Threat of International Terrorism, International Journal of Logistics Management, 12 (1): 1 – 11, 2002.
This paper won the “Best Paper Award” from the International Journal of Logistics Management and Accenture Inc. Reprinted in Defense Transportation Journal, pp 11-18, October 2002.
First ever ISCRiM meeting held at the Crewe Campus of Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU).
ISCRiM was started by Clare Brindley and Prof Bob Ritchie from MMU and the photograph includes Clare Brindley, Bob Ritchie, John Morris from MMU, George Zsisidin, Robert Lindroth, Andreas Norman and Ulf Paulsson, who were all founder members.
This was ISCRiM’s first dinner held at the White Lion Hotel, Cheshire, England. The initial meeting grew from a paper presented by John Morris in Canada.