VISION FOR A SUSTAINABLE FREIGHT SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA

whitePaper | January 19, 2023

Blockchain has already made an impact on various industries — it is poised to change or even replace the infrastructure of the financial services industry, and other industries like transportation can expect disruption as well. Blockchain technology, like many new technologies, can completely transform the way in which we conduct business. Blockchain technology has a number of benefits but an underlying component of it involves trust. Business transactions between two or more parties have already moved from paper to digital in many applications. By leveraging blockchain, an industry can enable secured, digitized transactions with approval granted mutually by participating parties, tracked in a common history, and requiring no central authority.

whitePaper | December 22, 2022

The battery-electric truck market is at an early stage, with fewer than 60,000 units in circulation worldwide, including approximately 20,000 units sold in 2021. Ninety percent of these were sold in China, and most were on the lighter side of the category, between 3.5 and 8 tons. However, significant growth in the market is expected in the coming years as more governments and truck manufacturers set combustion engine truck sales phase-out targets, more models become available, and production capacity is increased. A robust charging infrastructure ecosystem, along with sufficient grid capacity, must be deployed early enough not to impede the growth of the electric vehicle fleet.

whitePaper | October 29, 2022

If the supply chain configuration is neither designed nor managed, but has evolved without formal planning processes or strategy, it is time to bring the supply chain back in line with the business. At Philips Engineering Solutions, we have developed a 4‐step approach to help our clients to step up in supply chain maturity. The objective is to design a supply chain that actually contributes to delivering a competitive advantage.

whitePaper | September 14, 2022

After the COVID shock of 2020, supply chain executives across multiple surveys indicated plans to invest in digital transformation. CEOs acknowledged broken supply chains and poorly managed IT networks and McKinsey & Company found that, over the course of a decade, the average organization was losing close to half of a year’s profits from supply chain disruptions.

whitePaper | July 16, 2022

The future of transport is many things but one thing is for sure—data will underpin everything. This paper outlines an approach and digital transport reference model for transport agencies to get started on a journey to harness the enormous value of their data.

whitePaper | March 18, 2022

Recent decades have shown an increase in serious incidents in the Maritime Containerized Supply Chain, involving both onboard incidents and incidents taking place on shore in warehouses where Dangerous Goods are stored and handled in preparation for, or after sea-transport. Warehouse incidents in Tianjin in 2015 with numerous casualties and the latest serious such incident in Beirut in 2020 causing more than 200 deaths, 6000 injured and leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless, have caused global concern. They have revealed a need for guidance on warehousing, including consolidation, where Dangerous Goods are involved