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The Future of Autonomous Supply Chains Part 1: Autonomous Shipping

Logistics Viewpoints

Autonomous supply chains can also help businesses by enabling new business models, such as direct-to-consumer, subscription-based, and circular, and creating new sources of revenue and competitive advantage. Autonomous Shipping Autonomous shipping is the use of self-driving vessels to transport goods and passengers across waterways.

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Honk, if You’re Driving Green This Earth Day

Arena Solutions

We need to keep recognizing the necessity of reducing our reliance on gasoline-powered transportation as we mark Earth Day in April. By suspending global transport and enforcing resident lockdowns due to the pandemic, the environment was able to briefly reset. Innovation in the e-transportation industry.

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Introducing QAD Adaptive ERP 2022.1

QAD

Updates in the past few months address new requirements for Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Norway, Thailand and other global regions. . With this release, QAD adds the ability to readily capture supplier risk information from trusted sources to better address sustainability goals and risk mitigation objectives.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2017

Material Handling & Logistics

And here’s to hoping that 2018 results in even more significant advancements in the state of warehousing and transportation technology. We think you’ll enjoy this year-end recap of supply chain innovations and best practices. Last-Mile Delivery. Media Type. Media Credit. Privacy Settings. anonymous user. DataTable subpages. Media Image.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

The following is a 5,000 word exploration of Maersk’s strategic shift to end-to-end logistics services, based on open sources. Maersk would split into two divisions – a Transport & Logistics division, and an energy division. Other sources reported that DB Schenker was not the only forwarder making this shift.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In respect to logistics and transport something remarkable happened at COP26. The first Z – Zero emission road transport: Global MOU for ZE-MHDVs . In 2018, according to data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) road transport accounted for three-quarters of transport emissions. Most of this, 45.1

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EV Acceleration Around the Globe

QAD

Source: Diffusion of Innovations, Everett Rogers, 5th Edition In the world of disruption, innovators, like me, are seen as crazy people. Countries like Norway (where climate change is very real) are purchasing almost 90% electric vehicles. That means 2.8% of global vehicles are EVs. That puts the globe.3% 3% into early adopters.