Strategic Supply Chain Design

Dr. Milena Janjevic is a Research Scientist at MIT's Center for Transportation & Logistics, where she leads groundbreaking research in supply chain network design. Her work focuses on improving decision-making through data-driven optimization and simulation models integrated with interactive visual tools. After earning her doctorate and master's in Engineering with specializations in Logistics from Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, she gained valuable industry experience at McKinsey & Company, working on projects in telecommunications, insurance, and retail sectors. During her doctoral studies, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Center of Excellence for Sustainable Urban Freight Systems at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where her research concentrated on optimal design of urban logistics systems using multi-tier distribution networks and electric vehicles. Her current research portfolio includes developing customer-centric supply chains, sustainable network design, and improving last-mile delivery systems. She has worked extensively with global organizations, including a notable project with a pharmaceutical company to design last-mile channel strategies for new product launches. Her expertise extends to urban freight policy, infrastructure design, and the development of visual analytics decision-support tools that enable intuitive interaction with quantitative methods.