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…
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…
Energy prices for both oil and electricity are increasingly high. European countries have been experiencing record highs in the wholesale market for months. In the case of electricity, this is due to the European pricing system, and in Spain, it is aggravated by the lack of competition in the sector, where any rise in the…
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…
During 2021, we have continued to feel the consequences of COVID-19 on supply chains. The pandemic has highlighted the profound fragilities of these networks, as the disruption of one part of the chain has a ripple effect on the other links, from manufacturers to suppliers and distributors, ultimately affecting consumers and global economic growth. In…
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…
Supply chain optimization is about right-sizing and efficiently managing capabilities and critical resources throughout the supply chain, from production to the point of sale and finally, to the customer. Here are the considerations you need to take into account to define a good operational strategy and have an optimal end-to-end supply chain: Accurate demand forecasting…
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…