OMNICHANNEL RETAILERS DELIVERING FROM THE ENDLESS AISLE

June 8, 2019

Omnichannel retail strategies emerged as a response to the growing market share of eCommerce giants. Retailers started realizing they didn’t have a “retail problem” (the retail industry continues to grow), they had a real estate problem. What to do with all of these brick-andmortar stores when increasingly consumers are buying goods online? The answer: turn them into fulfillment centers where consumers can look at goods and then buy them online, or buy them online and pick them up and return them to stores. Or get them shipped the same day from the store to their home no matter how they bought them.

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Cikarang Dry Port

Integrated Port and Logistics Facilities at Cikarang Dry Port provide a one stop service for cargo handling and logistics solutions that serve international export and import trade, as well as domestic distribution within Indonesia. Serving as an extension of Tanjung Priok, it is strategically located in the manufacturing zone on the eastern side of Greater Jakarta. Its international port code IDJBK connects Cikarang Dry Port to ports around the world through multiple Shipping Line partners.

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Perishables Logistics and Air Transport

whitePaper | December 7, 2022

Every day, perishable goods make their way across domestic, international, and intercontinental routes, through an elaborate supply chain from point of harvest to retail to fulfil worldwide consumption needs. These consumable and non-consumable products, such as meats, fish, flowers need to be handled and transported in a fast and reliable manner to ensure shipment integrity and minimize any losses. This is largely made possible by air transport which facilitates the movement of perishables across the world. Though proven to be robust, perishable transport has succumbed to inevitable pressures inflicted on the supply chain by the pandemic, such as capacity constraints and transport restrictions which significantly impact food loss and waste.

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Supply Chain Management White Paper

whitePaper | January 25, 2022

Supply chain management is the management of material and information flow in a supply chain, designed to provide the highest degree of customer satisfaction at the lowest possible cost. It requires the commitment of supply chain partners to work closely to co-ordinate order generation, order taking and order fulfilment.

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Transportation management: the next level

whitePaper | November 7, 2022

Transportation is at the centre of major supply chain crises. Transportation has recently been affected by factors such as a lack of truck drivers, lack of container capacity and associated price hikes, disruptions caused by incidents in the Suez canal, ports closed due to public health measures, and borders closing as a consequence of (trade) wars and Brexit.

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Understanding and Meeting Customer Expectations for Hydrogen Trucking

whitePaper | July 26, 2022

A whitepaper setting out the needs of truck end-users and logistics providers as these organisations look to decarbonise operations, focusing on the opportunities and challenges that hydrogen trucking brings. This paper discusses the role of hydrogen in facilitating truck end user decarbonisation targets, as well as supporting logistics companies to maintain operations amidst increasing regulatory pressure to reduce emissions. The paper outlines the needs and expectations of customers in terms of operational and infrastructure requirements, cost, and policy intervention to enable a transition to zero-emission heavy-duty trucking across Europe.

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Forecasted Transport Planning

whitePaper | May 22, 2022

Transportation, shipping, and logistics management should always be treated with priority in the supply chain process. We should also understand this can represent one of the most costly, complex and time-consuming pursuits in an organization. Hence, transportation planning and robust logistics management play a crucial role in executing deliveries on time

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SPRINT to the future-ready supply chain

whitePaper | January 23, 2022

From the lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, to ongoing geopolitical instability, to the growing consumer and other stakeholder’s focus on sustainability, to the disruptive effect of emerging technologies, the challenges facing today’s supply chains are multiplying and intensifying.

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Spotlight

Cikarang Dry Port

Integrated Port and Logistics Facilities at Cikarang Dry Port provide a one stop service for cargo handling and logistics solutions that serve international export and import trade, as well as domestic distribution within Indonesia. Serving as an extension of Tanjung Priok, it is strategically located in the manufacturing zone on the eastern side of Greater Jakarta. Its international port code IDJBK connects Cikarang Dry Port to ports around the world through multiple Shipping Line partners.

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