MIT Food and Retail Operations Lab (FaROL)

?? Huge kudos to Dr. David Hidalgo Carvajal on earning his PhD! We all have attested to your dedication, resilience, and passion for SCM, circular economy, and reducing waste. ??You are a true inspiration for the whole team. We are very proud of your achievements and look forward to celebrating a bright future! Art credit: Dominique Gomez De la Luz (Thank you!) #PhDGraduation #Congratulations #Teamrecognition #food4thought

?? Packing & Unpacking: Research Insights from MIT CTL ?? Christopher Mejia Argueta, research scientist and director of the MIT Food and Retail Operations Lab (FaROL), sat down with Marina Mayer to discuss sustainability and circular supply chains for some recent publications in Food Logistics. ? ?? "Food supply chains are dynamic, complex, and subject to perishability. Therefore, they face several challenges when addressing circular economy models, which aim to recycle, reuse, and repurpose food" - Christopher Mejia-Argueta. Click the link to explore these challenges and learn strategies for starting a more sustainable supply chain journey! ? https://lnkd.in/eAt_v8W6 #SupplyChain #SupplyChainManagement #SupplyChainInnovation #ResearchCenter #Logistics?#FoodLogistics #Food4Thought #Thought4Food Massachusetts Institute of Technology

?? We are thrilled to announce this publication! ?? Rafael Escamilla, PhD, led this groundbreaking research on emerging market economies, using Latin America as the testing field. We also feel proud that he is a 2018 alum of the MIT GCLOG program and an active member of the MIT SCALE Network LAC. ?? We also congratulate his PhD advisors, Prof. Jan Fransoo and Prof. Prisca Brosi. We also acknowledge Camilo Mora and Christopher Mejia Argueta for their valuable contributions. #nanostore4ever #emergingmarketeconomies #50millionNanostores #digitalera

?? Packing & Unpacking: Research Insights from MIT CTL ?? In the latest installment of research at MIT CTL, Christopher Mejia Argueta and Jafar Namdar have published their study, titled "Navigating Retail Inflation in Brazil: A Machine Learning and Web Scraping Approach to the Basic Food Basket", in the Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. "In response to the escalating challenges of global inflation, particularly in developing countries like Brazil, this study combines web scraping and machine learning to analyze inflation dynamics within the retail sector. By systematically real-time pricing and product data from a sponsor company and its four main competitors, we focus on Brazil's most consumed staple foods—beans, rice, sugar, and coffee." ?? ?? ? ?? ?? Visit our publications page to view the full abstract and access the paper: https://lnkd.in/eK9StY4b This paper was written in collaboration with Andrés Mu?oz-Villamizar from the International School of Economic and Administrative Sciences in Colombia, and Matias Piatti, Luís Felipe Piragibe, and Juan Felipe Gómez Alvarado, MIT Graduate Certificate in Logistics and Supply Chain Management holders. #SupplyChain #SupplyChainManagement #SupplyChainInnovation #ResearchCenter #Logistics?#RetailOperations?#Inflation #MachineLearning MIT GCLOG program MIT Food and Retail Operations Lab (FaROL) Massachusetts Institute of Technology

We are pleased to share that Agatha Clarice da Silva Ovando is the recipient of the 2024 Emerging Economies Doctoral Student Award for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) from the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS). ?? Agatha is a former visiting scholar at the MIT Food and Retail Operations Lab (FaROL) Lab in CTL, an MIT GCLOG program alum class of 2019, and an active member of the MIT SCALE Network LAC. She was awarded for her academic and practical contributions to reducing food insecurity for vulnerable population segments in LAC using field research to understand consumer preference for fruits and vegetables and shopping patterns. ?? ?? ?? She has used spatial analysis to determine food accessibility models through nanostores and competitive facility location models to analyze how diverse retailers supply nutritious food to underserved communities. Please join us in congratulating Agatha on this important milestone! ?? ?? ?? Watch the awards ceremony recording here: https://lnkd.in/eqA7WQpD #LatinAmerica #TheCaribbean #SCM #Analytics4Good #FoodforThought #ThoughtforFood #POMS Christopher Mejia Argueta LOGYCA

?? Packing & Unpacking: Research Insights from MIT CTL ?? Renewable energy resources will play an essential role in the future, however, the understanding of their supply chains and relationship to emerging technologies, like the Internet of Things (IoT), has not been thoroughly investigated. ?? ? Christopher Mejia Argueta, Director and Founder of the MIT Food and Retail Operations Lab (FaROL), explores how digitalizing the renewable energy supply chain with IoT technology can achieve sustainable performance in a recent paper in the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. ???? ?? ?? Read the full publication here: https://lnkd.in/eDv54VxK This study was conducted in collaboration with Behzad Masoomi, Iman Ghasemian Sahebi, Fatemeh Gholian-Jouybari, and Mostafa Hajiaghaei-Keshteli. #SupplyChain #SupplyChainManagement #SupplyChainInnovation #ResearchCenter #Logistics?#SDG #RenewableEnergy #AdvancedAnalytics #EnergySupplyChains #EmergingTechnologies #SC4Future #FaROL Massachusetts Institute of Technology

We are very proud of the amazing work that Kalyan Prasanna Simha and Shantanu Baviskar did in their groundbreaking capstone project at the MIT Supply Chain Management Master's Program this year. ?? Congratulations to them and their advisors, Dr. Eva Ponce and Dr. Christopher Mejia Argueta. #freshness #reducefoodwaste #foodfortought #thoughtforfood