MIT professor Yossi Sheffi on how to solve our global supply chain, pandemic and climate change problems

Today's guest is Dr. Yossi Sheffi. Yossi is professor of
Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
where he serves as Director of the MIT Center for Transportation
and Logistics (CTL). He is an expert in systems optimization, risk
analysis and supply chain management, which are the subjects he
researches and teaches at MIT, both at the MIT School of
Engineering and at the Sloan School of Management. He is also a
very prolific author of several books including: The Power of
Resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected Balancing
Green: When to Embrace Sustainability in Business (and When Not to)
The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy
Beyond Covid-19 His latest book, "A Shot in the Arm: How Science,
Engineering, and Supply Chains Converged to Vaccinate the World"
was just published a couple of weeks ago. This episode of The
Logistics Tribe is hosted by Marco Prüglmeier and covers a wide
spectrum of topics: the Semiconductor shortage, supply chain
disruptions during COVID, climate change, globalization and the
role technology can play to tackle all of those issues. Happy
listening! Important links: To learn more about Yossi Sheffi:
https://sheffi.mit.edu/ To connect with Marco Prüglmeier: Marco
Prüglmeier on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prueglmeier/ ​
To connect with Boris Felgendreher, founder of the Logistics Tribe,
visit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/borisfelgendreher/ The Logistics
Tribe Podcast is supported by GreyOrange, a global leader in the
areas of AI-enabled warehouse robotics and fulfillment automation.
Boris recently recorded a podcast episode with Akash Gupta, the
young co-founder and CTO of GreyOrange. That episode is now live on
the BVL Digital Podcast, the official podcast of the German
Logistics Association (BVL):
https://bvl-digital.de/podcast/87-ai-enabled-smart-robots-in-fulfillment-and-warehouse-automation