The value of care when fighting with talent scarcity and a growing skills gap

Over the course of the last 4 weeks our experts looked into the two major human resource challenges that transport and logistics businesses face nowadays – emergent talent scarcity and skills gap. Transport and logistics professionals were asked to share their preferred strategies to deal with them. Their responses also gave us a glimpse on …

Remote Dispatching-as-a-Service for freight fleets

Thinking of transport businesses, regardless of their scale of operation, funding and fleet technology, there is one specific function that is universal – dispatching. A core business function, it requires a very high level of professionalism, skills and abilities to assess a quickly changing environment, anticipate bottlenecks and take fast decisions on the go. Since …

Productivity and resilience of logistics workforce. Challenges and strategies.

Transport companies complain of the newfound “laziness” of their workforce while warehouse and dispatch professionals fear replacement by robots and AI. A recent study confirmed that more than 2/3 of the logistics employees expect that automation will force them to learn new skills and 1/3 already plan to quit their jobs. A sci-fi scenario or …

Optimising for Resilience. Redundancy as a trade-off

We, people, are smart enough to engineer two-stage turbochargers in truck engines rather than the more effort- and cost-saving, hence more optimized, single compressors. A sacrifice readily made to tackle large inertia and better coverage of the entire operating range of the engines. Yet again we tend to build transport businesses pivoted around a single …

Management as a Service (MaaS) for Transport and Logistics? 

Management with its central functions of leadership and accountability is pervasive throughout decisions, opportunities and operations of every business. But can it really be a service or MaaS is just one of those cocky tech made-up words meant to justify premium costs? Let’s see what it really is. Simply put, management is the process of …