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The World Bank argued differing standards are creating “additional costs and complexity in sourcing decisions”, which may lead companies to keep more of the production process within one country. Professor Yossi Sheffi gives commentary on this “Herculean task”.

The focus on supply chain in the past few years has heightened competition for jobs. The result is a renewed focus on why the supply chain matters. Presented by Professor Yossi Sheffi and Dr. Eva Ponce 

Professor Yossi Sheffi contributes to The Hill. Consumers consistently tell pollsters that they care about the environment. In fact, according to a 2022 report, 66 percent of them said that they are willing to pay more for sustainable products. Prior to the current inflationary trend, other studies reported an even higher proportion. Most corporate managers, however, know that the reality is very different.

Also Published in MIT News. 

If you want to be innovative, you have to be open to the next big idea coming from the unlikeliest of places, says the founder and former CEO of FedEx.

Smith, in discussion with Center for Transportation and Logistics Director Yossi Sheffi, reflects on 50 years in business and building for the future.

Co-authored by international best-selling authors Radu Palamariu and Knut Alicke (Amazon – Business Leadership), "From Source to Sold" brings together insightful stories from 26 of the world's leading supply chain executives, CEOs, and thought leaders.

The term ‘supply chain’ is just a name that we give to a nexus of logistics, inputs, processes, transportation, packaging, distribution, marketing, customer relations, vendor relations, and human capital, which together support the supply and demand of every physical, digital, intellectual, or artistic artefact on the planet and in space. The supply chain is everywhere.

Professor Yossi Sheffi weighs in on how the Shanghai lockdown could prove a more powerful driver of migration for China-sourced goods than trade conflicts and the disruptions of the past two years.

Supply chain bottlenecks that are disrupting deliveries to shoppers and businesses – while driving inflation to 40-year highs – mostly have been traced to pandemic-driven worker shortages at factories, ports and warehouses. But some top analysts say there’s a bigger culprit: You.

Professor Yossi Sheffi is featured in the number one spot of this list due to his research, academic success, and foremost expertise in the supply chain industry.