PRODUCT FOCUS: Metafour Courier Software
Streamline your entire delivery process in one, easy-to-use, intuitive cloud platform, that helps Sameday, Overnight, International, and Last Mile Fulfilment Couriers reduce costs, save time, scale easily, and delight customers. With 4 decades of expertise and innovation in the courier & mailroom industries, Metafour has developed world-class software that streamlines your entire delivery process, helping […]
Data, data everywhere: The future of AI in logistics transportation
Most shippers, carriers and logistics service providers understand the importance of data collection and data-driven decision-making. Data collected over time provides intelligence, enabling companies to enhance long-term decision-making. Meanwhile, real-time data can be used to make smart split-second decisions – like how to correct or replan when problems occur. Artificial intelligence is a potent tool […]
Where are brands applying innovation to supply chain and logistics operations?
The turbulence of the past two years has shown senior management the importance of supply chains and logistics. Within this business landscape, the need for retailers to innovate to adapt their supply chain and logistics operations to meet the challenging market conditions has never been more important. While every company’s challenges and opportunities are unique, […]
How to unlock the value of data-driven logistics
The ability to tap into data is critical to business success – from predicting sales trends to improving operations and customer service. This gives companies the insights they need to outperform the competition, and today’s business leaders clearly recognise the value of data. However, these game-changing insights are elusive for many companies, with 58% of […]
WHITE PAPER: Real-time Transportation Visibility Platforms must do more. What’s next?
By Shippeo There have never been more supply chain management solutions available to organisations. Yet a recent PWC survey of executives shows that only 17% believe their supply chain technology investments have yielded expected benefits. For supply chains to thrive and be resilient in the complex, volatile and uncertain world we live in, transportation management […]
Building the business case for Satellite IoT
The Operational IoT market continues to expand as organisations across the world imagine an extraordinary range of opportunities to leverage sensor technology. Weather monitoring stations are transforming the efficiency and environmental performance of remote copper mines and helping farmers to safeguard crops and livestock in a changing climate. The shipping industry is improving cargo traceability […]
American online consumers have a craving for UK products
The US e-commerce market is the second largest in the world. Surpassed only by the Chinese, which underwent an almost improbable development in the last ten years. The Americans are keen and experienced online shoppers. According to the IPC* Cross-border E-commerce Shopper survey 2022, more than 50 percent of the US online audience shopped online […]
Retail logistics: The year that was, and preparing for the retail year ahead…
2022 continued to present an array of challenges for retail, logistics and supply chain professionals. Although Covid19-related restrictions were lifted, its challenges were replaced by the war in Ukraine and the subsequent knock-on-effects relating to it; including energy cost increases, a rise in inflation and cost-of-living, and sustainability concerns. Meaning, for many retailers agility has […]
Planning a Nordic Market entry or already have established Nordic e-commerce customers?
Buying products online is a long-established habit of most of the population in the Nordic countries. All of them, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway were out early when it came to building an internet infrastructure, also in thinly populated areas. So, Nordic consumers have been relatively mature in their behavior when it comes to e-commerce […]
OPINION: ‘Data-fication’ set to drive transformation in Transport and logistics
By Kirstie van Oerle, Partner, Netcompany As we look ahead to this year, it is from the position of continuous volatility that the past twelve months have brought. Transport and logistics companies, still in COVID recovery mode, face a raft of challenges as external factors combine to ensure that the road before us is anything […]
