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 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...
Dec 06, 2022 The MedTech landspace – what next for this newly disrupted sector? By Philipp Bächtold Andri Fritz Lars Christopher Nientkewitz Oliver Pestalozzi +1 more... Show less The MedTech industry historically has been one of the more stable sectors. But, with multiple disruptive forces now at play, no one is...
Dec 05, 2022 No easy way out: The challenges in diversifying your supply chain By Akshay Balachandran Paul Rogofsky Increased tensions between the two largest economies, a recent war, and a pandemic have caused the economic and geopolitical world order...
Oct 31, 2022 Fashion in Focus Survey Report 2022 – Sourcing Journal By Murali Gokki Jon Langman Naomi Buie Jeremy Lambert Ryan Poole +2 more... Show less After a few turbulent years, the apparel industry is settling into a new normal that looks nothing like it did before. Rather than...
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 14, 2022 Tales from the shop floor: How retailers can act in the face of recession By Richard Harrison Clare Kennedy Dan Coen Matt Clark +1 more... Show less With double-digit inflation, rising borrowing costs, falling consumer demand sitting alongside the constant need to innovate, ESG...
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...