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You don\u2019t have to look very hard to find an industry executive mentioning the term \u2018supply chain.\u2019 Indeed, during the first two weeks of October, the expression cropped up some\u00a03,000 times on earnings calls hosted by S&P 500 companies<\/a>. The problem \u2013 put simply \u2013 is that\u00a0\u201cthe old ways worked until they didn\u2019t\u201d,<\/strong>\u00a0as Hamid Moghadam, the Chief Executive of Prologis put it recently. To understand what needs to change, we were lucky enough to join recently an online symposium called \u201cbreaking new ground,\u201d hosted by Prologis, but also featuring senior executives from DHL, Maersk and UPS as well as a member of the House of Representatives and the author Michael Lewis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to get worse\u201d before it gets better<\/strong> was the sobering message Hamid shared with the audience. Prologis is arguably one of the businesses best placed to make such an assessment since around 2.5% of the world\u2019s GDP flows annually through its warehouses. Most readers will be clearly aware that the pandemic led to an upsurge in demand for online purchases, but the problem is more systemic than that. Supply chains in general were always historically built to perfection, permitting for just-in-time delivery. What we\u2019ve learned is that exogenous events \u2013 not just the pandemic, but also factors such as adverse weather and a grounded container ship in the Suez Canal earlier this year \u2013 can disrupt this set-up. Just-in-time will morph to just-in-case<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To get a sense of the current scale of the problem, consider that there are 540,000 containers waiting in harbour at the port of LA, the busiest port in America. Typically, only 18,000 get loaded daily<\/strong>. Viewed from a different perspective, further downstream in the supply chain, Carol Tom\u00e9, the Chief Executive of UPS told us that there is currently a daily excess demand of 5m packages in the US relative to available supply<\/strong>. Further, there is an apparent shortage of 80,000 truckers in the US<\/strong> at present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enough of the problems, what about the solutions? One speaker put it best by saying it\u2019s about \u201cjoining the dots.\u201d What this means practically is developing end-to-end solutions that work across <\/em>supply chains. Sure, building more warehouses relative to where demand<\/em> is<\/em> makes sense (as well as adding new storeys to existing ones), but if you\u2019re doing so, then it makes sense to configure them with software that can enable (driverless) trucks to be loaded and unloaded using autonomous software packages. Make the trucks energy efficient (as well as the containers that bring the goods there in the first place) and you\u2019re onto a winning formula. As Hamid puts it, we all need to have confidence \u201cto do the impossible in a short period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 November 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Originally Posted on November 4, 2021 – Warehouses For The Future<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The above does not constitute investment advice and is the sole opinion of the author at the time of publication. Heptagon Capital is an investor in Prologis. The author of this piece has no personal direct investment in the business. Past performance is no guide to future performance and the value of investments and income from them can fall as well as rise.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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