After a year of monitoring all topics of innovation in the supply chain professions, what can we remember?
To start, some figures: between March and December 2018, we detected 241 innovations and received more than 80 startups. Such figures still seemed impossible a few years ago in our sector.
How to explain them?
It goes without saying that the joint efforts of the BPI and public organizations which have pushed innovation in France, the role of incubators and ever more numerous accelerators, all driven by the market and in particular international competitors, have largely contributed to boosting French innovation in general, and innovation in our professions in particular.
What are the major areas of innovation today?
Nine large families stand out to date:
- Acceleration in returns management
- Consolidation in the last mile
- Restructuring in the 1er kilometer
- Transport/delivery/installation dissociation tests
- The development of warehouse optimization solutions
- The industrialization of new last mile vehicles
- The disruption of maritime
- The maturity of autonomous robot technologies
- Taking into account autonomous delivery vehicles
What will be the future of this dynamic?
This question is almost impossible to answer. What is certain is that France must build an ecosystem that allows projects to scale up to an industrial scale to give rise to scale-ups, or even unicorns. It is through this type of success that we will create a lasting policy of social dynamics. But for that, startups must find industrial and financial partners to fight not on an internal market, but on a European, or even global, market.
Everything still remains to be done, but the momentum is there!
To be continued in 2019-20-21
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