Driver Shortage: The Great Debate and Research too

Our digital experts discuss the business imperatives of supply chains and share how digitalization helps maximize operational efficiencies. Understand the nuances of supply chain performance in CPG, retail and logistics.

With the advances in connective technology and automated driving support systems, how can the journey towards platooning meet the operational challenges facing the transportation and logistics industry today? To uncover the benefits to technology and transport performance, truck platooning has to become plannable and integrable in the transportation planning, execution process and transportation management systems. HERE has developed intelligent truck platooning services that can be utilized to enable platooning along the transportation process chain, from planning to execution to reporting.

Have you felt it? There’s been a seismic shift in power within our economy. Customers are in control and supply chains need to be as agile as the customer wants and needs.This is forcing shippers and logistic service providers to rethink how they serve their B2B & B2C customers. And in an era of faster cycle and shipping times, international expansion and multiple suppliers, that means increased (and sometimes insurmountable) complexity in the supply chain.

Over the last few decades, rapid growth and scaling have led to a map of complex supply chains. The downside to this type of transnational supply chain is that manufacturers and distributors are left vulnerable to any sort of disruption – as we’ve seen with the COVID-19 pandemic.