Dr. Lapide has over 30 years of experience in industry, consulting, business research, and academia. Most recently he was the Director of Demand Management at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL). He also managed the launch of MIT's Supply Chain 2020 Project and is responsible for CTL’s Strategy Alignment Workshop. He concurrently served as the Research Director for the Demand Management Solutions Group, a consortium of companies that sponsored a multi-year research project focused developing advanced strategies, principles, and methods to optimally match supply and demand.
Before MIT he was on the staff of AMR Research, a technology market analyst firm specializing in software business applications, serving variously as VP and Service Director for Supply Chain Strategies, as VP of Research Operations for Business Applications, and as the GM for Benchmarking Services.
Previous to AMR, he was an associate partner with Accenture where he managed projects involving supply chain effectiveness, distribution network analysis, demand planning, service parts logistics, operational strategy, and systems development. He served high-profile clients in high-tech, telecommunications, retail, consumer and industrial product industries, in both the US and Europe.
Dr. Lapide has also previously worked with Data General, Arthur D. Little, and Benchmarking Partners, as well as a part-time lecturer (for 10 years) in the Management Sciences department of the University of Massachusetts. He holds a PhD in operations research from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from MIT, and a bachelor's in electrical engineering from The Cooper Union.
Dr. Lapide - a recognized leader in supply chain technology - is a frequent presenter at supply chain events and was profiled in 2001 by Supply Chain Technology News magazine as one of four top thought leaders in supply chain and in 2006 in Supply Chain Management Review (SCMR) magazine’s Profiles in Leadership column. DCVelocity magazine named him as a 2007 Logistics Rainmaker. He has written numerous articles, including writing two ongoing column in the Journal of Business Forecasting since 1997 and in SCMR since 2007. He co-managed and co-authored a book for the Council of Logistics Management, E-Business: The Strategic Impact on Supply Chain and Logistics.
He has held several professional society officer positions including four years serving as a board member and treasurer of the Supply Chain Council and as a president of the Boston Chapter of The Institute of Management Sciences (now INFORMS). He sits on the Institute of Business Forecasting’s Advisory Board, the ValueCentric Board, and Manhattan Associates' Science Advisory Board.
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