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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What is Blockchain?
Blockchain or to be formal, Distributed Ledger Technology, (DLT) is not just the IT process enabling Bitcoin. It is real, valuable, and coming to a supply chain near you.
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Industry Survey: Freight Digitalisation
The survey consists of just 10 multiple choice questions and is completely anonymous, so we would be grateful if you could please spare a moment to give us your open and honest opinion.
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What Does the Future of Supply Chains Look Like?
Any supply chain manager, listening out above the day-to-day noise generated by continually evolving markets and requirements, will be rightly concerned about bigger geo-political issues. Like Brexit, US-China tariffs wars, relations with Russia to name just a few…
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What Is Supply Chain Financing?
Supply Chain Managers understandably focus on the physical movement of goods and, increasingly, on the supporting flows of information. Typically, how money moves through the chain is somebody else’s problem. However, this approach is flawed because cash flow issues are the most avoidable cause of supply chain vulnerability and failure.
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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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