Industry Trends

A recent Wall Street Journal article ("Farewell Offshoring, Outsourcing. Pandemic Rewrites CEO Playbook") highlights how some companies are "moving workers and production facilities closer to [...]

There is the physical supply chain consisting of infrastructure, assets, and people (e.g., trucks, trailers, roads, ports, containers, chassis, warehouses, drivers, warehouse workers, etc.). [...]

On September 27, there was a supply chain story on the front page of the Wall Street Journal above the fold. Before the pandemic, supply chain rarely, if ever, appeared in mainstream newspapers [...]

As highlighted in a June 2021 Wall Street Journal article by Bob Tita, Polaris, which manufactures boats, motorcycles, and other vehicles, is “changing its manufacturing and sales strategies on [...]

As highlighted in a recent Wall Street Journal article, Polaris which manufactures boats, motorcycles, and other vehicles is “changing its manufacturing and sales strategies on the fly to cope [...]

As reported by Petra Sorge and William Boston in the Wall Street Journal in March 2021 (“Germany to Make Firms Responsible for Policing Abuses by Global Suppliers”): Germany is set to force [...]

In an Indago survey earlier this year, our members selected “To deliver an enhanced customer experience” as the top factor driving innovation in last mile delivery today. What last-mile [...]

Inflationary pressures are increasing across supply chains. In the United States, for example, the Consumer Price Index increased 4.9% in May 2021 compared to May 2020. Last week, the Federal [...]

As reported by the Wall Street Journal last week, "Europe is preparing legislation that would jolt the rules of international trade by taxing imported goods based on the greenhouse gases emitted [...]

As reported by CNBC recently, starting on May 24, “Amazon will stop requiring face masks for fully vaccinated workers inside warehouses, except where required by law…Amazon said in [...]