What Is The Difference Between Digitisation and Digitalisation?
Academics love to quibble over definitions, but the two-letter difference between ‘digitisation’ and ‘digitalisation’ does have profound, real- world, significance. The currently accepted distinction comes from market researcher Gartner. It says that Digitisation “takes an analogue process and changes it to a digital form without changes to the process itself”. But Digitalisation “is the use of…
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INFOGRAPHIC – Why You CAN Trust Digital Transformation
Everyday we hear stories about how ‘‘digital transformation is disruptive, and disruption is bad for business”. To me, this is astonishing, because digital transformation is not a new concept or one ‘still coming down the line’. It is already here, happening all around us, and has done so for years! In this infographic, we illustrate…
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A Collaborative Solution to Urban Last Mile Challenge?
According to the report ‘Making urban freight logistics more sustainable’, freight traffic accounts for 10-15% of urban kilometres travelled. Which doesn’t sound excessive until you realise that it represents 300-400 freight vehicle trips, per 100 people per day in, out, through or within a city. Many of these spend much of their time blocking roads to unload perhaps just one or two roll cages.
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Whitepaper: How Do We Achieve A Sustainable Future for Freight Transport?
The problem is simply stated. The European Commission reports that while road freight represents just 3% of vehicles, they account for 29% of road derived emissions. Consisting of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, but also pollutants such as oxides of nitrogen and particulates. Exhaust emissions aren’t the only issues either. Fuel spills, tyre ‘crumb’, accidents, noise & vibration, congestion, infrastructure degradation… It all has a real impact on the health and well-being of people and the environment. Whether at local, regional or higher level it still says nothing of future ‘climate change’. Download our latest whitepaper, to learn what you can do today to start improving your sustainability profile.
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The Evolution Of Supply Chains – Part 3: Out Of The Silo, Into The Hive
In our previous blog, we learned that the problem with Supply Chain Management (SCM) lies in the word ‘chain’. It forces us to think in sequences where ‘B’ can’t begin until ‘A’ is completed.
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The Evolution Of Supply Chains – Part 2: Command and Control
In our previous blog post, we learned that Supply Chain Management (SCM), was born in an era of transition. From manufacturers ‘pushing’ the products they could most easily or profitably make… To one where they had to be responsive to customers demand for choice and variety.
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The Evolution Of Supply Chains – Part 1: In The Beginning
In this 3-part blog series, we will look at the evolution of supply chains, from the profound changes in business organisation and technology in the 1970s. To where we are today on the cusp of yet another evolution which will prove even more significant.
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Digital Freight Matching – The Road To Combat Relaxed Cabotage Laws
Since 2010, EU trucks have been allowed to undertake three ‘cabotages’ in a period of seven days in their country of destination before returning home. Importantly, though, these ‘cabotages’ have to be essentially casual – not part of a regular cont
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Fuelling Up For Digital Transformation?
Up to now, ‘digitisation’ has largely been about ‘playing the game better’ by using IT to improve efficiencies and reduce costs. However, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles and additive manufacturing, will not just change the rules of the game but the very game itself. Now commonly referred to as ‘digitalisation’.
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How Is Government Supporting Sustainable Freight?
How much support government gives to logistics service providers, in the common quest for reduced congestion and emissions?
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