Dec 16, 2022 Wind of change: How home delivery expectations have transformed in a decade By Marc Iampieri When we launched the results of our 10th Annual Home Delivery consumer survey earlier this year, I was tempted to dust off my archives...
Dec 12, 2022 Tuesday’s gone…and so is the windfall of detention and demurrage revenue at US container terminals By Luiz Gosling Marc Iampieri Brian Nemeth North America terminal operators will be under financial pressure in 2023. We expect container terminals and container operators’ margins...
Nov 10, 2022 Companies are falling short on consumers’ home delivery expectations By Chris Considine Bryan Eshelman Marc Iampieri Raj Konanahalli Brian Nemeth +2 more... Show less The e-commerce surge forced by the pandemic has been a tricky turn of events to tackle for businesses. On one hand, it allowed companies...
Oct 19, 2022 Next stop on the rail disruption express By Erik Mattson Miriam Hall Andrew Kerr Last week, a union representing almost 12,000 rail workers in the United States voted down a tentative contract, which had been brokered...
Oct 07, 2022 Is the tide turning for container shipping? By Esben Christensen Stelios Fragkos Lian Hoon Lim Marc Iampieri Brian Nemeth Jason Keyes +3 more... Show less Eroding fundamentals portend tough times ahead for the industry AlixPartners’ 2022 Container Shipping Outlook observed that “today’s...
Oct 03, 2022 Transportation costs have passed the inflection point By Erik Mattson Andrew Kerr Supply chain disruption has brought record high transportation costs over the past two years. Shippers – and eventually consumers – have...
Sep 30, 2022 Is the warehouse cost crunch sticking around? By Steve Scales Andrew Talerico Costs are spiking in the US warehouse sector, as the heightened demand for storage space sustains, but the above-trend rent increases are...
Sep 21, 2022 Wanted: a supply chain strategy for an era of disruption By Brian Nemeth Derek Knueve Kyle Lynch In simpler times, supply chains were designed to optimize for two variables: cost and service performance. And for a long time that...
Sep 16, 2022 Carbon Neutrality: What is it and why is it an important goal? By Les Viszlai A company's impact on global warming is one facet of sustainable investing that has quickly become a key differentiator for investors—one...
Sep 08, 2022 Revisiting Mexico, again By Parmeswaran Bhaskaran Dan Hearsch Foster Finley Sudeep Saxena Bhavik Mistry +2 more... Show less As supply chain disruption persists, the case for nearshoring grows Recently, AlixPartners published a comprehensive report on the trend...
Aug 04, 2022 Feeling the squeeze, Part 3: Warehouse storage By Joe Cubellis Mark Scales Kevin Trembach Disruption has gone from buzzword to everyday reality for wholesale distributors in recent years. From manufacturer shortages to port...
Jul 18, 2022 Delivering on demand: How many days is too many? By Chris Considine Bryan Eshelman Marc Iampieri Raj Konanahalli Brian Nemeth +2 more... Show less As e-commerce became ubiquitous over the last few years, consumers consistently kept lowering what they considered an acceptable delivery...
Jun 23, 2022 Automation Part 2: One size doesn't fit all By Derek Knueve Chandan Singh We recently argued that automation’s move from the experimental phase to necessity phase has accelerated amid the pandemic, supply chain...
Jun 23, 2022 Could another supply chain crisis be on the horizon? A potential West Coast port labor strike would create a tumultuous 2022 holiday period By Brian Nemeth Erik Mattson James Roe Andrew Kerr +1 more... Show less Following the trend of continual disruption in the supply chain, the looming West Coast port labor-contract negotiation is set to take...
May 25, 2022 The recent ocean freight contracting season was one for the ages By Brian Nemeth Erik Mattson James Roe Andrew Kerr +1 more... Show less The 2022-2023 Trans-Pacific ocean freight contract season was unlike any in recent memory. For the first time in modern history, carriers...
May 17, 2022 Supply chain: Can you work yourself out of a perpetual state of disruption? By Steven DuBuc Ashwin Sathyanarayan Dan Hearsch Inflation is spiking, supply chains remain constrained, freight rates are near all-time highs, and parts for production remain elusive....