by Walther Ploos van Amstel
When logistics professionals discuss supply chain innovation, companies such as Amazon, Zara, and Walmart usually dominate the conversation. Yet one of the most sophisticated supply chain innovators today may be a company better known for meal kits than logistics: HelloFresh. Behind its weekly deliveries lies one of the world’s most advanced food supply chains. Over …
Artificial Intelligence has moved beyond exploratory pilots in transport and logistics. While autonomous trucks and drone delivery continue to grab headlines, the real transformation is happening deeper inside the supply chain stack: in planning, forecasting, routing, exception management, terminal operations, data orchestration, and real-time decision support. The exploratory study on AI in transport & logistics …
The supply chain is often described as the invisible backbone of the global economy. As long as goods circulate, trucks roll, and ships dock, no one pays much attention. But as recent years have shown, when a link breaks, the world notices immediately. For decades, logistics has been a reactive industry, fixing problems after they …
In a McKinsey Talks Operations podcast episode, Sanjit Biswas, CEO and co-founder of Samsara, joins McKinsey’s Renee Jackson to explore how AI and digital solutions revolutionize logistics and supply chains. Samsara, a provider of AI-driven tools for physical operations, helps companies in logistics, construction, utilities, and government sectors to enhance safety, efficiency, and sustainability. Biswas …
A group of logistics experts from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and the European Supply Chain Forum proposes to have the bulk of the corona vaccines brought to people’s homes and administered in their familiar environment. A hundred trucks outfitted for refrigerated transport with four to ten ‘jabbers’ should suffice. This is not only …
The ALICE Urban Logistics Leadership Team presents actions to prevent an ecological second wave in the supply chain. Several supply chain patterns in place for the last decades are strongly questioned by the COVID-19 crisis. In the last few months, we are living an unprecedented and very fast transformation and transition of society and economy to new …