Trend Opportunity Profiles: Supply Chain Series

Digital and Connected Supply Chain Leading to New Growth Opportunities

Trend Opportunity Profiles Series covers specific opportunities emerging from future trend evolutions designed to help clients discover and prioritize the most consequential medium-to-long-term trends that are continually transforming their business' growth environment. These trend opportunity profiles cover 11 key industries: Aerospace and defense; health, wellness, and wellbeing; retail; information and communication technologies; supply chain and logistics; fast-moving consumer goods; security; energy and environment; business and financial services; mobility; industrial; and food and agriculture. This edition of Trend Opportunity Profiles features trend advancements in the supply chain, including new business models, such as cold chain-as-a-service, flexible fulfillment, microfulfillment distribution hubs, warehouse-as-a-service, shipping software as-a service, features of advanced technologies in supply chain, such as edge computing, smart contracts, and supply chain control tower.

Keywords: Intelligent supply chain solutions, autonomous SCM, Real-time predictive maintenance, Software based shipping solutions, automated shipping management platforms, global transport management software, cloud-based warehouse optimization and fulfilment solutions, on-demand fleet management, inventory and production management, manufacturing control tower (MCT), inventory control towers, smart contract-based solutions for inventory management, hyper-local delivery, omnichannel supply chain.