For the first time in Latin America, a specialized program in logistics created by MIT and LOGyCA

15 specialization and masters level logistics students in different countries in Latin America will be the first to experience the GC-LOG

LOGyCA is ready to host in Bogota 15 specialization and masters level students from Mexico, Colombia and Brazil who will participate in the first delivery of the Graduate Certificate in Logistics and Supply Chain Management GC-LOG, the most extensive non-formal education program in Latin America, offered by the Center for Latin American Logistics Innovation – CLI.

This program, which will be carried out for the first time in Latin America, will be presented exclusively by professors from the Center for Transportation & Logistics of the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology (MIT-CTL) and will allow students to receive world-class training in logistics combining the latest studies on value chain management worldwide and regional business case studies.

The syllabus of the GC-LOG was designed by experts from MIT and LOGyCA, placing at the disposal of students the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics’ 30 years of innovation and academic excellence, as well as LOGyCA’s 20-year experience as a facilitator for the development of logistics strategies which impact the competitiveness of Colombian companies.

The main goal of the GC-LOG is to train professionals in the skills proper to logistics, developing multi-disciplinary supply chain leaders with three basic strengths: analytical problem-solving capacity; understanding how solutions must be connected to technology and the capacity for leading people in the supply chain.

The CLI, for its part, seeks to provide answers to logistics needs which have been identified from companies and universities in a variety of countries in Latin America which make up its network of members through top level logistics research and education.

In the words of Edgar Blanco, MIT CTL Executive Director for the CLI, “this is a unique opportunity for people who are interested in extending their knowledge of value chain management to train through a program with the backing of MIT, but which responds to the specific needs of Latin America on the subject of logistics.”

Students who attend the GC-LOG will spend 3 weeks on the LOGyCA campus in Bogota during the month of July and will complete the program over the course of 2 weeks in January at the MIT campus in Boston.

Students who are currently attending specialization or masters level programs in logistics, business management, industrial engineering and similar programs in universities which are a part of the CLI partner network are eligible for participation in the program.

Starting next year, persons working in companies which have the category of strategic partners of the CLI may also compete for the limited spaces available for this program.