In addition to leading the global research team, Melinda focuses on tracking, analyzing, and forecasting global logistics real estate fundamentals and structural industry trends, and translating insights into strategic decision-making for the company. Other areas of specialization include supply chain reconfiguration, location differentiation, and econometric modeling.

Highlights

• Focusing on the market environment - 4:22
• Accelerated by the pandemic - 5:11
• There’s not enough logistics space - 9:43
• Having budget shortage - 16:16
• A big correction for logistics - 19:07
• The demand in supply dynamics - 20:10
• Talking with supply chain consultants - 22:25
• The importance of having automations - 25:14
• Some of the covid changes - 32:29
• Third-party fulfillment - 33:49
• Providing solutions - 37:14
• Knowing and understanding operations - 39:10 Episode Resources
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• https://www.linkedin.com/in/melinda-mclaughlin/