The Year in Review

As we said at the beginning of the year, if the past few years have taught us anything in particular, it is that disruption, turbulence, and change are more the norm than outliers.

This has proved true again in 2025. These are what we feel have been the most important stories and trends of the past year:

1. This article on how most businesses are fundamentally restructuring their supply chains to counter disruptions.

2. This article on how better collaboration can ensure supply chain resilience and optimization.

3. This article on the growing costs of blind spots in modern supply chains.

4. This article on three supply chain resolutions to stop doing in 2025.

5. This article on South Africa's improvement in logistics indexes amid shifting global supply chains.

6. This interview and article on the quest for a unified supply chain.

7. This article about the strategic imperative of supply chain modelling.

8. This interview and article about the data quality trap in supply chains.

9. This article on three lies we tell ourselves in supply chain management.

10. This article on why the future of freight is multimodal.

11. This article on why AI is failing supply chain so far.

12. This article on how in supply chains, the weakest supplier or slowest logistics step constrains the flow of the entire supply chain.

13. This article on how SMEs can overcome the volume disadvantage in supply chains.

14. This article on the most boring problem in supply chain, and potentially the most important.

We wish all of our staff, customers and suppliers a happy and peaceful festive season, with thanks for their support in 2025. Looking forward to the challenges and opportunities that 2026 will bring.