What future for the last meter Supply Chain?

The local Supply Chain, including that of the last meter, corresponds to all the logistics activities that must be organized and executed close to the end consumer both in cities and in peri-urban or rural areas. Urban logistics aims to optimize all delivery flows as well as reverse logistics flows…

The Pedestrian Drive: an ideal tool for tackling urban logistics issues

Urban logistics is the art and way of transporting packages within cities. In order to facilitate this delivery, street furniture intended for e-commerce has emerged: connected lockers for Click and Collect. These locker models, made commonplace in the 2010s, make it possible to overcome the limitations encountered during…

E-commerce mobility: what impacts on the city?

With the growth of e-commerce, the “logistics intensity” of our commercial transactions in the city has increased. This phenomenon has been amplified with the COVID-19 pandemic. If consumers have returned to stores, many have become omnichannel, combining visits to online stores and physical stores. E-commerce is transforming the city as much as mobility, particularly that of logistics which is increasingly…

The organization of the urban logistics sector is faced with increasingly restrictive environmental and economic policies.

Indeed, the rise of e-commerce is shaking up the codes: fluidity of online purchases, compression of delivery times, increasing productivity of circuits... With growth of 5% / year, urban logistics will significantly accelerate in the years to come. Every day, 1 in 10 people receive a package. The ten…

Interoperability at the service of urban logistics

2024: the Japanese delegation arrives in Paris to participate in the Olympic Games. Covid 20 succeeded Covid 19, but vaccines have solved the problem in the meantime. This time, everything was redesigned to comply with climatic requirements, and the containers of sports equipment arrived separately a week before and were…

Will Europe be able to seize the opportunity of autonomous logistics in time?

Autonomous urban logistics vehicles & robots, the race is on! Last mile delivery is a sensitive point in the logistics chain. Tension is increasing around this last link, the implementation of which is at the crossroads of several issues: significant increase in the volume of e-commerce delivery,…

Welcome to Logistics City, the Chair

Sogaris, IFSTTAR and the University of Paris-Est Marne-La-Vallée are launching “Logistics City”, a Research Chair in Urban Logistics. SprintProject, as a player committed to Supply Chain Innovation and in particular Urban Logistics, supports the approach! In just a few years, logistics and the city have experienced major upheavals: warehouses have moved away...

Autonomous Urban Logistics Vehicle

It's 7:30 a.m. and I'm having a coffee in my favorite Parisian bistro located on the corner of rue Amelot and rue Oberkampf. That day, among the many newspapers scattered on the counter, my eye was caught by an article in the stands. The title concerns the “autonomous delivery vehicle”. I have a meeting with…

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