Papers

FoodLogiQ survey finds consumers have exceptionally high expectations for food transparency, discover how to earn a customer’s trust, loyalty and purchasing power through supply chain visibility and transparency.

This report highlights the importance of the industry to the US economy in terms of jobs, wages, tax revenue, and GDP, and quantifies the economic contribution of industrial truck manufacturing and its support services in the US.

Shippers are giving pool distribution a second look thanks to today’s third generation TMS, which is more powerful, flexible, and sophisticated than prior generation products.

Executives see a large gap between the current state of digital transformation across their extended global value chains and what they expect to see in just five years from now.

This paper shows that contrary to arguments by net neutrality opponents, the 2015 net neutrality rules have been working well - providing assurances to consumers and innovators, with no significant harm to broadband providers with respect to negative impact of investment, capacity, or demand.

Robots, prescriptive analytics and artificial intelligence (ai) are liberating untapped human potential in the supply chain, are you taking action to embrace them?

HR and talent management professionals can make a positive contribution to their workplaces by rooting out and minimizing the unconscious biases that can undermine diversity efforts and recruiting and retention programs.

What is the link between disruption and gender diversity? Innovation, and in our experience, the way to spark innovation is to harness the power of different ideas from diverse groups of people who are supported by an inclusive culture, part of this equation is gender diversity.

Kurt Salmon and GT Nexus surveyed retail executives to assess their goals and confidence levels for supply chain visibility and fulfillment; our survey report identifies specific areas of improvement that can deliver significant ROI.

How to Lower Costs, Increase Reliability, and Strengthen Your Supply Chain.

Big data’s potential just keeps growing, taking full advantage means companies must incorporate analytics into their strategic vision and use it to make better, faster decisions, this paper helps organizational leaders understand the potential impact of data and analytics.

When supply chain professionals discuss supply chain execution, their focus is typically put on transportation management systems and warehouse management systems, the yard management systems capability and importance is mistakenly undervalued.

The race to master complexity in the digital age demands a winning formula of visibility, data analytics and agility, download this eBook and find out how to avoid complexity getting in the way of success.

This white paper covers best practices for building a portfolio of trade agreement programs to reduce the cost of purchase parts in your supply network.

E-business-centred new entrants and new online platforms are starting to convert customers and change how companies buy and transact international shipping services, are freight forwarders at threat of being cast aside, and what are the fundamental changes driven by technology and market conditions?

Container shipping remains remarkably fragmented, with the top five operators accounting for less than half the global market, and this presents considerable opportunity for further consolidation.

In this report, we analyse how three distinct categories of operators working across the global supply chain (e-commerce companies, container shippers and freight forwarders) are increasingly competing (or collaborating) with each other as industry boundaries are redefined.

Amazon Business is a major threat to B2B distributors, but large distributors still have time to take action and come out ahead once the dust settles, and to succeed, distributors must embrace the new marketplace platform business model that Amazon also employs.

From our roots as a courier service in the 1960s, we know that sharing is not new, what is new are the tools and attitudes with which people are sharing: smartphones and mobile technologies combined with shifting societal values are allowing companies with new business models to proliferate at unprecedented speed, scale, and valuation.

This 12th edition of The Global Risks Report is published at a time of heightened political uncertainty, following a year of unexpected electoral results, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom, deepening generational and cultural divisions are amplifying the risks associated with sluggish economic recovery and accelerating technological changes.