Transportation and Logistics
Frontline Topics
- Physical internet
- The ultimate transportation efficiency network that applies the concept of the internet where information of warehouses and transportation means/routes across multiple industries.
- Smart transportation
- Visualize the flow of people and goods across the entire city, and achieve the advanced transportation and delivery with accurate demand forecast and next generation mobility.
Issues
- Supply chain efficiency
- How to make supply chains more efficient and save man-power with digital technology to overcome the decrease in working population and the rise in personnel costs in Japan.
- New consumer needs
- How to respond to the demands such as "faster", "more flexible" and "eco-friendly" and improve CX.
- Last one mile
- How to solve last one mile issues such as lack of delivery personnel and means of transportation with digital technology (e.g., delivery robots and on-demand transportation).
- Global operations
- With decoupling between US and China, how to identify changes in the international situations timely and maintain robust operations.
- Carbon neutrality
- How to establish eco-friendly supply chains with biofuels, modal shifts, efficient transportation routes, etc., and turn sustainability into corporate values.
Cases
- Strategy - New Business -
- Starting up new health-tech businesses
We launched and promoted new health-tech businesses using existing assets, and planned the optimal entry model through analysis of macro trends, leading and related companies, etc.,, and conducted continual alliance negotiations, etc.
- Digital - Digital Logistics -
- Developing DX-enabled logistics business concepts
We provided comprehensive support for a major high-tech company's new business in the area of logistics x DX, from conception and launch of the business to customer acquiring proposals and taking orders.
- Digital - Drone -
- Implementing a proof of concept for drone management systems
We promoted the development and demonstration of a drone operation management system, and succeeded in a long-duration, multi-flight safety flight demonstration for early realization of logistics and commercial use.
- Operation - Cost Reform -
- Detailing processes of logistics cost visualization and control
Based on the current situation where the factors that increase logistics costs are unclear, we formulated the management process to be pursued, visualized logistics costs through data analysis, and estimated the cost reduction potential.
- Operation - Automation -
- Automating operations in logistics centers
In order to materialize the concept of the new logistics centers, we defined the objectives and created a plan to introduce logistics robots, and included the new logistic centers in digitalization plan.
- Technology - Data Platform -
- Building customer information infrastructure
Aiming to improve CX through consistency customer-driven personalized services, we designed system infrastructure to centrally manage and retrieve information on per-customer basis, and planned measures to utilize it.
