TRANSPORT, LOGISTICS, SHIPPING: DEDICATED ICT SOLUTIONS ARE INCREASINGLY POPULAR
Transport is undoubtedly one of the crucial sectors of our
economy. Likewise, the world of logistics and shipping is undergoing great
changes.
To stimulate the transformation there have been and there
are still many different factors, such as globalization , the evolution of
purchasing and consumption behavior and so on. All this has led, as a first and
most important consequence, to a growing need to speed up the movement of goods
, in order to meet the demands of warehouses, companies and therefore
consumers.
The operators who deal with transport, logistics and
shipments thus find themselves having to progressively reduce delivery times,
and at the same time guarantee greater productivity in the face of a reduction
in costs : otherwise, it would become impossible to maintain sufficient margins
.
To respond to these needs, the transport sector is rapidly
modernizing , but there are still gaps that increase the final costs.
Transport and logistics: the excessive cost of document
management
According to recent research by the World Economic Forum , a
surprising part of the shipping costs are related to document management
operations.
The most amazing case is that of container shipments on
international routes : a fifth of the costs are attributable to the creation,
processing and management of the necessary documentation. And this takes place
in a sector that is only apparently analogical, which has already embarked on
an important path towards digitalization, which is also parallel to that
started by the customs authorities.
The classic "rivers of paper" still slow down and
make shipping more expensive, around which delays and errors are created. This
is because, in a sector where paper still has a leading role , every single
passage from one actor to another can give rise to a forgetfulness or a real
mistake, a possibility not very remote in the event that the steps of the goods
are many, as happens precisely in the case of international shipments, more and
more frequent.
It should also be stressed that when we talk about errors we
refer to any event that could hinder a correct shipment: reading the statistics
of the Cargo Incident Notification System it turns out, for example, that about
25% of the important accidents that occur on container ships are due to
descriptions wrong load .
The race of the transport and logistics sector towards
digitalization
In the face of setbacks and errors attributable to slow and
obsolete document management, companies in the logistics transport sectors are
increasingly adopting ICT solutions: the aim is to reduce the document load and
guarantee effective transport management , availing itself of continuous support:
from the planning to the control phase.
In this sense,Auditors & Business Consultant in Dubai
has long been at the side of companies in these sectors,
providing IT solutions capable of simplifying and optimizing the management of
transport, logistics and shipping companies at national and international
level.
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