Economiste
Pitney Bowes has released in its latest Parcel Shipping Index the last numbers of the US parcel delivery market. Those numbers show a tremendous change in the market with Amazon logistics being now ranked third, behind UPS but before Fedex, with an annual growth of 127%. We can notice that the ranking is significantly different…
On entend beaucoup parler de la logistique intelligente (smart logistics) qui serait le résultat de l’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle, de convoyeurs entièrement automatisés ou même de robots autonomes qui, dans les entrepôts de grands e-commerçants, participent à la préparation des commandes. Cependant, l’ensemble de ces progrès restent assez invisibles pour les consommateurs qui achètent en…
People hear a lot about smart logistics, see those videos of autonomous robots in ecommerce warehouses or fully automated conveyors sorting thousands packages per hour. But all those dramatic improvements in logistics remain quite invisible to consumers. The buying process does not seem to have evolved at the same pace. There are still some limits…
Package delivery companies are facing a paradox: they are constantly having to deliver more and more parcels in cities that are, at the same time, increasingly concerned by the impact of their activities. Indeed, cities are no longer able to absorb the impact of ecommerce fueled parcel delivery volumes that register double-digit growth, year after…
For several years now, drones have been presented as the future of the last mile delivery. Personally, I do not think that, at least in the near future, we will see in cities drones buzzing all around us. Indeed, people would be bothered by the noise and the vision of flying packages. Moreover, what would…