In this article, we tell you about some of the strategies that help reduce pollutant emissions from fleets to achieve sustainable logistics. Sustainability is one of the great challenges facing companies in the 21st century. Society and governments are increasingly critical of good environmental practices and penalise the generation of waste and the emission of…
Introduction to the vehicle routing problem A vehicle routing problem is a generalisation of the famous commuter problem, which consists of finding the shortest route through a series of cities, departing from a city and ending in the same city. As its name suggests, it is a problem with very practical applications in the optimisation…
According to the latest reports, 40% of the CO2 we emit worldwide is produced during energy generation and heat production, 20% comes from transport activities (goods and people), and another 20% from industry, mainly from the manufacture of building materials. This means that 80% of the pollutant gases emitted into the atmosphere are caused by…
In this article, we talk about the 7 technological trends that leading companies are incorporating to have the warehouse of the future. Proper management of warehouses and logistics centres is key for the supply chain to deliver the expected quality of service at the lowest possible costs. Warehouse operations have a direct impact on customer…
As you already know, hyper-automation, digital process automation or intelligent process automation, is the discipline that combines different technologies with optimisation, prediction and automation capabilities based on AI, to facilitate the digitisation of business processes seeking maximum efficiency and profitability. Its technological ecosystem is formed by technologies that cover: end-to-end process orchestration through BPM (Business…
In recent years you may have heard the term “Digital Twins”. This concept was born in 2002 by Dr Michael Grieves as part of his research programme at the University of Michigan, where he wanted to recreate highly detailed models of complex real-world objects and processes in virtual environments. However, it is only now that…
Demand forecasting systems are a very helpful tool for advanced process planning and for combating uncertainty in coverage forecasting. But what do we mean when we talk about uncertainty? Uncertainty is present in each and every business. It is the impossibility of knowing with certainty how a situation, a project or a business strategy will…
In this article, we will tell you about the 5 key functions or capabilities that an advanced planning and scheduling tool should have. To be agile in decision making and process management, we first need flexible, intelligent, and connected planning and scheduling tools. This means that they must be able to adapt to any company…
The volume of ecommerce sales has been increasing for years and the arrival of Covid-19 has helped these figures to multiply exponentially. There are 100% ecommerce companies that do not have physical shops, such as ASOS, Zalando, or the giant Amazon; and traditional retail companies that have joined the digital revolution, combining both business models…
Digital Decisioning combines human intelligence ( applying human knowledge and business logic through Business Rules Management Systems, BRMS) and Artificial Intelligence (decisions based on data and predictions through Machine Learning and AI) to efficiently automate business decisions. In this document we have compiled use cases in which we have helped several companies along the supply…