Futures studies meets human geography

Julia Wurm has been supporting the ScMI AG team with current client projects and internal research alongside her studies since summer 2021. Her master's degree in human geography with a focus on economic geography and mobility research opens up an exciting bridge to working with scenarios and future studies. In this article, she talks about her personal experiences from her studies and explains the mutual enrichment of working with ScMI.

In a multi-client scenario project that was initiated from the Cologne based EHI Retail Institute, ScMI AG together with 31 decision-makers from retail and service companies, developed and evaluated scenarios for the future of trade logistics in 2025.

„Whether the trade logistic is able to remain competitive in the future, or whether new player barge between end customer and trade, is highly dependent  on the position trade takes in the process of digitalization.“ This is the core result from  the „EHI scenario study on trade logistics 2025“, which was conducted in cooperation between the EHI Retail Institute in Cologne, several logistics experts from trade and ScMI - their methodical partner company.