Mar 17, 2023 Labor productivity, automation, and the case for digital manufacturing By Abhinav Agrawal Rob Sterner Steven Hilgendorf Aman Shah +1 more... Show less Supply chains are vast and complex. With the need for semi-conductors and rare earth metals, and the country’s deep consumer markets, the...
Mar 15, 2023 Geopolitics, uncertainty, and a fracturing world order are our reality By Simon Freakley Geopolitical tensions occupy the CEO and Board agendas to a degree I have not witnessed in my career, and the prospect of them...
Mar 03, 2023 Power dynamic shifts amid shipping’s pivot to new normal By Marc Iampieri Erik Mattson Andrew Kerr James Roe Luiz Gosling +2 more... Show less 8 Takeaways from TPM 2023 We recently returned from an eye-opening 2023 TPM conference in Long Beach, Calif. The annual event brings...
Feb 26, 2023 2023 Container Shipping Outlook: This time is different By Esben Christensen Stelios Fragkos Marc Iampieri Lian Hoon Lim Erik Mattson Luiz Gosling Jesse Bermensolo John Katsigeorgis Andrew Kerr James Roe +7 more... Show less The period from mid-2020 to the fourth quarter of 2022 was a high-water mark for the container shipping industry, and with it came...
Feb 24, 2023 Rethinking China? A resilient EMEA footprint could run through North Africa By Thilo Wallenstein Nicolas Franzwa Marcus Kleinfeld Many businesses are rethinking Chinese production strategies, weighing everything from a decoupling to an outright departure. However,...
Feb 15, 2023 Retailers need a stronger supplier plan as margins go under the microscope By Young Hu Amit Mahajan Clark Riess David Bassuk +1 more... Show less Retailers relied on pricing to solve a lot of their problems last year. Staggering input costs, including those related to energy,...
Jan 31, 2023 The grocery industry is ready to get back to basics By Marco Di Marino Adam Goodliss Matthew Hamory Justin Ramahlo Joel Rampoldt +2 more... Show less …but there is debate over what that means In 2022, groceries grew to 8.9% of e-commerce spending, and curbside pickup accounted for 20%...
Jan 20, 2023 From the squeeze to the crunch: What really matters in retail By Oli Freestone Matt Clark Dan Coen Brian Kalms Clare Kennedy +2 more... Show less If 2022 was the year of the ‘squeeze’… 2023 is almost certainly going to be the year of the ‘crunch’. Against the background of an...
Jan 19, 2023 Smart factories: Easy-to-implement technology can have a rapid impact on your P&L By Abhinav Agrawal As world leaders gather in Davos for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum to discuss a business environment that is so...
Jan 18, 2023 2022: A review of foreign sanctions and export control developments involving China By Colum Bancroft Jiayan Xu Cliff Lam Kalu Chen +1 more... Show less In the world of sanctions compliance, the main focus of 2022 was the Russia-Ukraine war. G7 policy makers continue demonstrating a strong...
Jan 11, 2023 As commodity markets shift, retailers should move to the offensive with suppliers By Young Hu Amit Mahajan Clark Riess With the world continuing to experience major disruption via ongoing war and an unsettled economy, there is an opportunity for retailers...
Jan 09, 2023 The supply chain may have avoided the rail strike – but the rail supply chain is still challenged By Miriam Hall 2022 was, in many regards, a year for the record books. Supply chains were more fractured than ever, and no link was left untouched by...
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 16, 2022 Auge in Auge mit der Rezession – was Autozulieferern in naher Zukunft bevorsteht By Hannes Weckmann Christian Siekmann Micha Hirschinger In der aktuellen Ausgabe widmen wir uns der Automobilindustrie im Hinblick auf eine mögliche Rezession. Dabei legen wir den Fokus auf die...
Dec 14, 2022 2023 AlixPartners Disruption Index By Simon Freakley Lisa Donahue Rob Hornby David Garfield +1 more... Show less Our 4th annual survey reveals an urgency among executives to confront ongoing disruptors such as supply chain issues, energy shortages,...
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...