In the December 2019 Issue: A resource for the year ahead

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December 2019

If it’s December, it must be time for our annual Executive Guide to Supply Chain Resources. This is a comprehensive guide to services, products and educational opportunities targeted specifically to supply chain professionals. As with years past, we’re also featuring several articles we trust will offer food for thought in your supply chain in the coming year.

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If it's December, it must be time for our annual Executive Guide to Supply Chain Resources. This is a comprehensive guide to services, products and educational opportunities targeted specifically to supply chain professionals. As with years past, we're also featuring several articles we trust will offer food for thought in your supply chain in the coming year.

We lead the issue off with our third annual look at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals' 2019 State of Logistics Report, authored by A.T. Kearney. Last year, the authors forecast more demand than capacity and continued high shipping prices. In contrast, 2019 has seen a significant slowdown in logistics activity, pointing to a more favorable market for shippers. We follow with executive editor Patrick Burnson's annual outlook for the economy and supply chain management in the year ahead. Burnson surveys a wide variety of published
reports and brings them together in one concise outlook feature.

We round out the issue with Supply Chain Management Review's Compensation and Executive Education Study, a must read for all professionals who want to compare how they're doing against their peers. Spoiler alert: Salaries were up significantly in 2019. And, we wrap up the
issue with Part II of Brooks Bentz's report on what to expect from IMO-2020, the new fuel regulations affecting the ocean shipping industry.

Finally, I'd like to invite you to Supply Chain Management Review's second NextGen Supply Chain Technology Conference, which will be held next April 27-29 in Chicago. We'd love to have you attend and we're also looking for presenters who can speak about the technologies that will shape tomorrow's supply chains. And, if your organization is doing something notable utilizing AI, machine learning, robotics, IoT or a digital transformation project, we encourage you to submit for our second annual Supply Chain Awards. You can learn more at nextgensupplychainconference.com. As always, the editors at Supply Chain Management Review wish all of our readers a successful year to come. We hope that the information and insights contained in this issue will play some part in that success.

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