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February 1, 2024 Figuring out how to emerge from this ongoing maelstrom will remain a challenge for shippers everywhere in 2024. With that in mind, let’s focus a few areas around the globe where extra care and diligent logistics management will need to be applied to keep operations—and budgets—in check.

December 7, 2023 Surveys by Gartner and McKinsey both come to a sobering reality for the future of procurement: the talent pipeline is not being prepared to meet the future demands of the job.

October 30, 2023 A survey recently published by global management consultancy McKinsey, entitled the “Supply Chain Pulse,” highlighted the ongoing changes in the ways companies are managing goods flow processes, including sourcing new materials, manufacturing, and distribution, as it relates to global trade and commerce, which tallies $32 billion annually across goods and services.

July 10, 2023 3PLs continue to evolve with the times.

December 21, 2022 Logistics robots and AI promise to help warehouses and distribution centers improve their operations in response to e-commerce demand and labor shortages.

June 1, 2022 While there’s no single solution, our analysts suggest that shippers enhance their communication with ocean carriers, particularly by providing good forecasts of their shipment volumes and booking early so that planning of capacity and operations is improved.

February 15, 2021 Supply chains and the infrastructure that supports them are designed for a stable climate, but as hazards evolve, it will be necessary to increase investment in adaptation, possibly at the expense of efficiency.

October 21, 2020 In many industries, demand has never been more volatile and unpredictable than during the COVID-19 pandemic, in this article we detail seven action items to drive demand planning despite an unprecedented crisis.

October 20, 2020 According to McKinsey & Company, the coronavirus pandemic’s unprecedented tests are inspiring companies to consider bold moves in rebuilding their supply chains for the future.

August 6, 2020 Managing modern consumer-goods supply chains is demanding, but measuring supply-chain performance should be simple, it isn’t yet, because of an inconsistent approach to the critical OTIF metric.

June 28, 2018 In this McKinsey report, analysis tells the story that is largely optimistic and sometimes surprising, but the most important narrative thread is this: the global automotive industry is about to enter a period of wide-ranging and transformative change.

December 14, 2017 Target Corp. has agreed to purchase grocery-delivery startup Shipt Inc. for $550 million, stepping up its challenge to Amazon.com Inc. and Walmart Inc. by speeding the rollout of same-day shipping.

December 12, 2017 McKinsey’s Future of Retail Grocery in a Digital World highlights the major trends that define this new period of retail and looks at how traditional retailers need to evolve in order to thrive.

November 30, 2017 This report examines questions surrounding robotic automation - will there be enough work in the future to maintain full employment, and if so what will that work be? which occupations will thrive, and which ones will wither? what are the potential implications for skills and wages as machines perform some or the tasks that humans now do?

November 30, 2017 As many as 800 million workers worldwide may lose their jobs to robots and automation by 2030, equivalent to more than a fifth of today’s global labor force according to a new report by the research arm of McKinsey & Co.