Research Interests

Supply Chain Innovation

Development and implementation of robust and efficient techniques for manufacturing and logistics systems. In particular, areas such as supply chain, network design, inventory models, pricing and procurement strategies, as well as production scheduling. I am also interested in the implementation of advanced algorithms in Decision Support Systems to improve supply chain performance. Finally, I have been involved in developing innovative teaching tools. For an example, please check our Web Based Beer Game and the MIT Procurement Portal Game

Project Highlight

Supply Chain to the Moon, Mars and Beyond

Interplanetary Logistics: Enabling New Frontiers

(See MIT News Office Story >>)

MIT Space Logistics Project

Sustainable space exploration will require appropriate interplanetary supply-chain management. Unlike Apollo, where everything was carried along, future exploration will have to rely on a complex supply-chain network on the ground and in space. The primary goal of the Interplanetary Supply Chain Management and Logistics Architectures (IPSCM&LA) project is to develop a comprehensive SCM framework and planning tool for space logistics.

The overall objective of this project is to develop an integrated capability for guiding the development of the interplanetary supply chain that will be required to enable sustainable space exploration of the Earth-Moon-Mars system and beyond. more >>

Engineers create SpaceNet--the supply chain

Network of nodes could ensure delivery to moon
See MIT News Office Story >>

Apollo 11 scenario visualization using SpaceNet

MIT engineers say: Flu vaccine shortages can be avoided

See MIT News Office Story >>

Affiliations and Responsibilities

Service to the community

• INFORMS Fellow (Fellow Info)

• Editor-in-Chief of Operations Research.

• co-Director of the LGO Partnership.

• co-Director of the SDM Partnership.

• co-Director of the Supply Chain Innovation Forum.

• A member of the MIT Operations Research Center.

Supply Chain Practice

From theory to implementation

• Inventory Optimization: The Last Frontier", by David Simchi-Levi and Edith Simchi-Levi, InBound Logistics, March, 2004

• "Finding the Right Balance", by David Simchi-Levi and Edith Simchi-Levi, Chief Logistics Officer: December 2003

• An interview with me is featured in the April 2002 issue of Inbound Logistics.

• A Supply Chain Executive Program with Charlie Fine and me organized by MIT Sloan School of Management.

• An interview with me is featured in the February 2001 issue of PARCEL Shipping and Distribution.

• An interview with me is featured in the November/December 2000 issue of Supply chain Management Review.