Disrupting Logistics : Startups, Technologies, and Investors Building Future Supply Chains / edited by Christian Wurst, Luca Graf

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Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Future of Business and Finance | Springer eBook CollectionPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2021Publisher: Cham : Imprint: Springer, 2021Edition: 1st ed. 2021Description: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 290 p. 37 illus., 34 illus. in color.)ISBN:

9783030610937

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658.5 23

DOI: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61093-7Online resources:

Summary: Foreword -- Introduction – Logistics at the brink of change -- Part I - Driving forces of digital disruption -- Digitizing and automating processes in logistics -- How utilization of assets is impacted by digitalization and automation -- Towards logistics pricing transparency -- Supply chain visibility and exception management -- Part II - Business models disrupting the existing logistics solutions -- The platform era and global freight -- The Last Mile Problem and its Innovative Challengers -- E-Commerce order fulfilment supply chain - how new entrants are changing the industry -- Selection of the appropriate asset tracking solution -- Advanced Analytics and Big Data in Supply Chain Planning -- SaaS & big data solutions in the area of logistics related services -- Human-Robot Collaboration: The Future of Smart Warehousing -- Digital freight forwarders disrupt road freight space -- A Revolution in Value-delivery Across Air and Sea Freight -- Autonomous vehicles as the ultimate efficiency driver in logistics -- Distributed Ledger Technology: Towards a Decentralized Logistics Ecosystem -- Part III - Key Players behind the disruption -- Digital transformation in airfreight -- How Freight Forwarders are challenged by and respond to the digital disruption -- The Evolution of Supply Chain Startups -- Transactions & Valuation in the Global Logistics Market -- Financing disruption – The role of Venture Capital in the logistics industry.Summary: This book presents trends, developments, and examples of how digital disruption is currently reshaping the logistics industry. Logistics is the invisible force behind the global economy, influencing and providing a lens into all economic activities. Chapters written by respected experts in the field describe how new technologies such as autonomous vehicles, blockchain, Internet of things (IoT), and state-of-the-art freight management solutions are fundamentally changing supply chain solutions. Special emphasis is placed on promising start-ups and venture capital firms around the world that are now investing in the future of logistics. .PPN: PPN: 1746358556Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-BUM | ZDB-2-SEB | ZDB-2-SXBM

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