12 posts tagged with “network-design”

Tariff pressure is pushing logistics teams beyond temporary rerouting toward operating models that connect origin strategy, mode selection, customs data, and shipment execution.

Averitt’s planned Louisville regional logistics campus shows why shippers are rethinking regional freight networks around integrated capacity, shorter linehauls, and resilience.

Industrial leasing is rebounding as supply chains diversify, but warehouse footprint decisions need transportation modeling before leases are signed.

USPS is opening 14 sorting and delivery centers through July 2026. Parcel shippers should treat the rollout as a network-planning signal affecting induction rules, service promises, economy routing, and parcel TMS logic.

Quantum computing is moving from theoretical to practical for logistics operators. Here's which companies are running trials in 2026, what problems they're solving, and what shippers need to know now.

BCG and McKinsey data show 62% of companies are actively restructuring supply chain networks in 2026. Here's what that means for your distribution strategy and how to act on it.

Tractor Supply’s expanding hub-based delivery model shows how retailers can scale rural final mile by improving density, controlling bulky-order execution, and reducing cost per delivery.

Russia’s rail deterioration is no longer a short-term disruption. With cargo loading at its lowest level since 2003, debt tripling since 2022, and East-West traffic shifting into constrained alternatives, shippers need to redesign Eurasian networks around structural unreliability, not hoped-for normalization.

McKinsey’s 2026 trade update makes a sharp point for logistics teams: global supply chains are not simply decoupling by country, they are being rebuilt corridor by corridor.

Walmart’s Matteson closure is not a retreat. It is a sharper bet on automated network concentration, lower cost-to-serve, and fewer redundant fulfillment nodes.