Today's guest on the show is Knut Alicke. Knut is partner at McKinsey. He’s based in McKinsey’s Stuttgart office where he is leader of the firm’s work in manufacturing and supply chain.

He advises clients on a variety of topics including supply chain management, digital supply chains and advanced analytics, and supply chain transformations.

Knut is also the author of a highly regarded book on supply chain management, and a professor at University of Karlsruhe, teaching supply chain management.

We asked Knut to give us his Supply Chain Predictions for 2022 and the conversation turned into a discussion on a variety of topics like the increased visibility of supply chain as a function, labour shortages and mismatches and the role that automation plays, container shipping rates, logtech startups and so much more. This show is hosted by Boris Felgendreher.

The Logistics Tribe Podcast is supported by GreyOrange, a global leader in the areas of AI-enabled warehouse robotics and fulfillment automation.

Helpful links:

To connect with Knut Alicke on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/knut-alicke/

To connect with Boris Felgendreher, founder and host of the Logistics Tribe, on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/borisfelgendreher/

How COVID-19 is reshaping supply chains: https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/how-covid-19-is-reshaping-supply-chains

Demand Planning in a Crisis:

How great supply-chain organizations work:

Risk, resilience, and rebalancing in global value chains: https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/risk-resilience-and-rebalancing-in-global-value-chains