Alan Amling

Thriving on Disruption

Blog: The Strategic Supply Chain

My academic research in disruption and 27 years in the supply chain industry have collided. How and why goods move from manufacturers to your doorstep has been changing rapidly over the last two decades, and the COVID19 Pandemic put these trends on steroids. My desire is to provide meaningful insights to you through this blog that help you navigate challenges in three specific areas:

  1. eCommerce disruption in small parcel, from fulfillment to middle and last mile logistics
  2. How new technology is removing century-old barriers and enabling new business models
  3. Unleashing game-changing business ideas buried in academic literature and brought to life in pragmatic explanations and examples

Each new post beginning in 2021 will be summarized in easy-to-read format: What? (What’s the topic); So What? (Why should you care about it); and What Now? ( What you can do, now that you know).  

Blog: The Strategic Supply Chain

The New Last-Mile: Logistics Leaders are Retailers

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At the end of 2018, I published an academic paper with Dr. Patricia Daugherty of Iowa State called “Logistics and distribution innovation in China.”  We studied China as a harbinger of things to come to the Western World as China was at the forefront of two mega-trends, eCommerce and urbanization.  ... Read more »