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Massachusetts Institute of Technology is offering free online course on Supply Chain Design. The course is divided into four main topic areas: Physical flow design, Supply chain finance, Information flow design, and Organization/Process design.
In this thirteen week course, applicants will learn how to design and optimize the physical, financial, and information flows of a supply chain to enhance business performance – part of the mitx micromasters Credential in Supply Chain Management. This course will start on March 28, 2018.
Course At A Glance
Length: 13 weeks
Effort: 8-12 hours pw
Subject: Engineering
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology and edx
Languages: English
Price: Free
Certificate Available: Yes, Add a Verified Certificate for $150
Session: Course Starts on March 28, 2018
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology — a coeducational, privately endowed research university founded in 1861 — is dedicated to advancing knowledge and educating students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
About This Course
This Supply Chain Design course is part of the MITx MicroMasters Credential in Supply Chain Management, offered by #1 ranked SCM Master's program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The main topic areas we will focus on in this course are:
- Supply Chain Network Design
- Supply Chain Finance
- Supplier Management
- Production and Demand Planning
- Process and Organizational Design
Why Take This Course?
This course is indispensable if you're considering a supply chain management career and, specifically, the positions of Supply Chain Analyst, Operations Manager, or Logistics Coordinator.
Learning Outcomes
- Network Design and Facility Location
- Supply Chain Finance
- Procurement and sourcing
- Production planning
- Demand management and Sales & Operations Planning
Dr. Chris Caplice
Director, mitx micromasters Program in Supply Chain Management
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James Blayney Rice Jr.
Deputy Director, CTL
CTL.SC1x Supply Chain Fundamentals
How To Join This Course
- Go to the course website link
- Create an edx account to signup
- Choose "Register Now" to get started.
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BEFORE Tony Soprano or Don Corleone or Tony Montana there was Lucky Luciano -- the real-life patriarch of modern organized crime.
Luciano was the Sicilian immigrant who rose to power in the Mafia in the U.S. in the 1920s and transformed it into a flourishing enterprise based on legitimate economic models. He ordered gangland killings, consolidated warring crime factions and began laundering profits from narcotics and prostitution through lawful businesses.
Criminals paid attention. So did the cops. Even the White House deferred to Luciano during World War II, imploring him to marshal the Mafia to help the Allies crush the enemy -- a covert intervention that earned him a presidential pardon. Major studios struggled for decades to secure the rights to the mobster's life story but failed because Luciano's family was reluctant to bring his crime-filled saga to the screen.
Finally, a movie about Luciano is in the works, and the driving force behind the project is Joseph Isgro, a producer once branded a Mafia soldier by the FBI. Isgro was a producer on the 1992 film "Hoffa" while under indictment on racketeering charges.


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Sustainable and Affordable: New Options in Factory-Built Housing
January 19, 2011
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) defines affordable housing as that which consumes less than 30 percent of household income. According to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 40 million U.S. households pay more than that for their housing. Energy efficiency is a smart choice for any home buyer concerned about the cost of living and the larger issues of energy security and climate change, as residential buildings alone account for some 20 percent of energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
On January 19, 2011, the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) and the High-Performance Building Congressional Caucus held a briefing about innovations in factory-built housing that are pushing the envelope for quality and performance while meeting the needs of low-income home buyers. Factory-built homes have the benefits of being constructed inside a manufacturing plant (avoiding weather-related delays), standardization that improves consistency and eliminates waste, and a design/build process that facilitates innovation and quality control. These characteristics allow manufacturers to produce high-quality housing much more quickly and cost effectively than homes that are site-built. This briefing addressed "manufactured" housing –– permanent housing (not trailers), produced almost entirely in the factory to federal minimum standards (the "HUD Code") –– and "modular" housing, made with prefabricated components and assembled on site to local code. Manufactured housing is the largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing in the United States, but most manufacturers are not using the most advanced energy-saving designs and technologies that could reduce monthly energy costs. This briefing presented the latest research and practices of inventive, forward-thinking companies that are working to make housing more affordable for more American home buyers, more profitable for American businesses, and more sustainable for everyone's benefit.
- U.S. housing is produced by a variety of methods, including off-site production in a climate-controlled indoor facility. Factory production has a number of advantages over on-site construction, including quality control and more efficient use of materials, which minimizes waste generation.
- There are several types of factory-built housing, including "manufactured" – produced almost entirely in the factory and transported to the retailer or consumer on a chassis – and "modular" – assembled on-site from pre-fabricated modules. Modular homes are regulated by local building codes.
- Manufactured homes are regulated by federal safety and quality standards administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The housing unit may remain on its chassis to enable future transport (mobile home) or be placed on a permanent foundation. In either case, these homes are not the same as travel trailers, which often are used for temporary housing.
- Manufactured housing is the largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing in the United States. Sixty percent of U.S. homes priced under $125,000 are manufactured homes.
- The median income of a manufactured-home buyer is $29,000. The average sales price of a manufactured home (without land) is $64,900. The average price for a site-built house (with land) is $203,000.
- Progressive manufacturers and entrepreneurs are creating state-of-the-art manufactured homes that feature modern designs, energy-saving products, environmentally preferable materials which also ensure healthy indoor air quality, water-saving fixtures, Energy Star appliances, abundant daylight, and/or solar panels.
- Energy efficient homes require less energy for lighting, heating, cooling, and running appliances, making them more affordable on a life-cycle basis compared to homes that waste energy. Energy Star-qualified homes can save $13,500 on energy costs over 30 years, while improving comfort and durability.
- Many home builders and manufacturers have not been able to offer energy efficiency and other performance improvements without raising the purchase price beyond what low income borrowers can afford.
- Lenders and appraisers generally do not recognize the role of energy efficiency in reducing a buyer's monthly costs.
- A $1,000 federal tax credit for manufacturers for the sale of Energy Star manufactured homes has helped address this issue. Since the tax credit went into effect in 2006, the number of Energy Star manufactured homes has increased from 25 to 20,000.
- The U.S. Department of Energy is updating energy efficiency standards for manufactured housing, as required by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, and is expected to publish proposed rules this year.


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The city of Gyumri is gifted with rich historical and cultural monuments. During centuries a unique architectural style has been formed in Gyumri, with more than 1,600 historical-architectural buildings covering an area of about 220 hectares. Most of them were built in the same period – 19th and beginning of 20th centuries. However, during the recent years the city's historical and cultural heritage has suffered due to the 1988 devastating earthquake and insufficient funding and investments by public and private sectors. This, in its turn, hindered community development and investment flows to the second largest city of Armenia.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Armenia and the RA Ministry of Culture, with the financial support of the Government of Italy, initiated a project aimed at regeneration of the urban environment in the city of Gyumri, thus making it more attractive place to live, visit and work and contributing to its socio-economic revival. Within the framework of the project, one of Gyumri's historical buildings, constructed in 1860-1913 and considered as a constituent part of history and architecture of the city, was renovated to serve as a public library for the residents of the city.


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Improve Handwriting with ArtThere are some kids out there who absolutely HATE handwriting. Let me re-phase that. There are a ton of kids who completely despise to their core the act of working neat handwriting, pencil grasp, slowing down so people can read their words, and writing on the lines. A ton. I've worked with many (many!) kids like this. I've recommended fun activities to about a zillion parents and teachers of these kiddos. It just isn't fun and it is work for them. Poor handwriting can result from so many factors: fine motor development, motor planning, visual perceptual skills, and attention, are just a few of the areas that interfere with neatness in written work.
So how do you possibly get through to build those areas up when the child is resistant to pick up a pencil and copy written work?
You make it completely NOT handwriting practice.
I've got a super creative way to sneak in skills like pencil control, line awareness, spatial awareness, and letter formation. And kids won't realize they are building their ability to write on lines, space between words, and form letters the correct size. And it all uses art!
Work on Handwriting with Tangle Art
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I was lucky enough to snag a copy of my friend Jeanette's new art book, Tangle Art Drawing Games for Kids: A Silly Book for Creative and Visual Thinking. This book is completely creative with easy and fun ways to get arty. I flipped through the book and loved every single project. They are no-prep art ideas that require only a pen and paper for most of the ideas. You could do every project in the book and then go back to the beginning and re-do them all and still be inspired to create new and fun art.
Seriously, the new favorrite book in our house is Tangle Art Drawing Games for Kids: A Silly Book for Creative and Visual Thinking!
One project in the book drew me in when i saw it. Ice pop stick tangle art is the perfect workout to build the skills needed for neatness in handwriting while creating fun art.
We followed the directions in the book to make shapes using craft sticks. Just tracing the craft sticks is a great way to work on bilateral coordination. When a child writes, it is essential that they hold the paper with their non-dominant hand. Then need to stabilize the paper in order for the pencil to glide across the page.
Just try writing without holding the pencil and you will notice a difference in neatness. This small task is often one that slides when kids loose attention in a handwriting task. You might see them slouch over at their desk and write without holding the paper.
Tracing those craft sticks is a nice way to physically attend to the bilateral coordination needed in handwriting tasks.
We used both the jumbo-sized craft sticks and the regular size to build more pencil control. Use a sharpie marker to get a thicker line for building line awareness.
After you've got your shapes on the paper, hand over a bunch of brightly colored fine point markers. You can do some tangle art that is described in Tangle Art Drawing Games for Kids: A Silly Book for Creative and Visual Thinking or you can make letters and numbers in the craft stick shapes. Try adding color to a section and then make shapes and letters in the color.
It is fun for kids to make hidden messages in the shapes by spelling out a name or word with all of the letters.
Encourage them to use those fine point markers to write very closely spaced lines. We also tried a few cursive line formations.


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Nokia plans to release its first Windows Phone smartphones close to the end of 2011. It's a huge bet for the Finnish phone maker, which abandoned its homegrown operating systems in favor of Microsoft's platform. Failure to seize the minds of consumers and businesses will mean further market-share declines, and a greatly reduced chance of ever retaking the initiative from aggressive competitors such as Apple's iPhone and Google's Android.
Nokia has unveiled the N9, a high-end smartphone running the MeeGo operating system, but even that device seems more a demonstration of the company's technical savvy than something expected to succeed in the marketplace on its own terms.
"Earlier this year, we outlined a comprehensive strategy to change our course," Nokia CEO Stephen Elop wrote in a June 20 statement accompanying the N9's debut. "Innovation is at the heart of our strategy, and today we took important steps to demonstrate a new pace of innovation at Nokia. It's the beginning of a new era for Nokia."
In the meantime, Elop's decision to abandon Nokia's homegrown platforms in favor of Windows Phone has left some analysts nonplussed.
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"We would continue to avoid the stock as Symbian smartphone sales are falling off faster than expected and we are skeptical that new Windows Phone (WP) models will be able to replace lost profits," Stephen Patel, an analyst with Gleacher & Co., wrote in a May 31 research note. "Our checks suggest mixed carrier support for Nokia's transition to WP."
So how does Nokia go about releasing a Windows Phone line that succeeds in the marketplace, and helps reverse perceptions of the company as merrily burning to its foundations?
High-End Hardware
If the N9 was meant to be a demonstration of Nokia's hardware prowess, the company may have succeeded. Early reviews of the device were largely positive, with many citing its sleek look (courtesy of the 3.9-inch, curved active-matrix organic LED screen and backing engineered from a single piece of polycarbonate) an 8-megapixel camera, and features such as NFC (near-field communication), which will allow users to share photos and other information by tapping another NFC-enabled smartphone.
When Nokia smartphones loaded with Windows Phone make their marketplace debut, they'll be facing competition, not only from the likes of the iPhone and Google Android devices, but also other manufacturers' Windows Phone offerings. Thanks to Microsoft's stringent hardware requirements (such as a 1GHz processor), these devices will be of similar quality. Nokia will have to introduce something that stands out from that crowd, possibly through a combination of elegant design and killer features like NFC. Simply producing another touch-screen slab won't do the trick.
This one should probably be a given, but it deserves mentioning anyway: All Nokia smartphones need to hit the market running Windows Phone "Mango," the wide-ranging update that will supposedly add some 500 new elements to the platform. Mango's user-facing features include a redesigned Xbox Live Hub, home-screen tiles capable of displaying up-to-the-minute information on friends and contacts, and visual voice mail.
U.S. Presence
According to comScore, Nokia fails to place in the Top 5 rankings of either U.S. OEMs or smartphone platforms. In the OEM scenario, it ranks behind Samsung, LG, Motorola and others. In platforms, it lags even Palm, which now is owned by Hewlett-Packard. If Nokia wants an added (and necessary) booster in its quest for worldwide adoption, it needs to figure out a way to get its Windows Phone devices on the store shelves of U.S. carriers and associated retailers.
Low Prices
"Lower price of the devices will be the crucial perquisite for the expansion of [Windows Phone] models," Stela Bokun, senior analyst with Pyramid Research, wrote in a May 9 note. "Nokia knows it and Microsoft knows it, and I am sure they will act on it quickly."
To be fair, Bokun's model, while optimistic about Nokia's ultimate penetration with Windows Phone, also depends on a slowing in Android's growth, with Apple's iOS and Research In Motion's BlackBerry franchises suffering the collateral damage of Google's duking it out with Microsoft. That's a lot of variables to digest, but that one point about lower prices seems particularly noteworthy: Unless Microsoft and Nokia find a way to sell quality smartphones on the cheap, they'll never be able to push back against the tide of Google Android devices.


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