DIGITAL DISRUPTION IN FREIGHT AND LOGISTICS

November 18, 2017

New, digital entrants are transforming traditional relationships in the freight and logistics business. Their offerings, built on big data, cloud, and connected platform technologies, give customers the seamless experience they already enjoy as consumers: ease of access, price transparency, and swift, near real-time integrated service. Still mired in largely manual and heterogeneous processes, supported by a variety of different tools, most of the industry’s incumbents simply can’t compete.

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BEST Logistics Technology

BEST Inc. (Previously BEST Logistics) combines Internet, information technology and traditional logistics services to create new subversive business models in conformity with the colossal Chinese logistics industry, and to improve the efficiency and usage of information technology. The Chinese headquarters of BEST Inc is located in the beautiful West Lake city - Hangzhou, and has already established nowadays multi polar operations centers nationwide, whose network of distribution covers the whole country, extending until counties and townships in the remote countryside.

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