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34 results for: logistics
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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...
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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...
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Companies are falling short on consumers’ home delivery expectations
By Chris Considine Bryan Eshelman Marc Iampieri +2 more...
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...
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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...
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Is the tide turning for container shipping?
By Esben Christensen Stelios Fragkos Lian Hoon Lim +3 more...
Eroding fundamentals portend tough times ahead for the industry AlixPartners’ 2022 Container Shipping Outlook observed that “today’s...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Revisiting Mexico, again
By Parmeswaran Bhaskaran Dan Hearsch Foster Finley +2 more...
As supply chain disruption persists, the case for nearshoring grows Recently, AlixPartners published a comprehensive report on the trend...
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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...
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Delivering on demand: How many days is too many?
By Chris Considine Bryan Eshelman Marc Iampieri +2 more...
As e-commerce became ubiquitous over the last few years, consumers consistently kept lowering what they considered an acceptable delivery...
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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...
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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 +1 more...
Following the trend of continual disruption in the supply chain, the looming West Coast port labor-contract negotiation is set to take...
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The recent ocean freight contracting season was one for the ages
By Brian Nemeth Erik Mattson James Roe +1 more...
The 2022-2023 Trans-Pacific ocean freight contract season was unlike any in recent memory. For the first time in modern history, carriers...
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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....
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