European Logistics: trends and evolutions

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Consolidation, collaboration, clustering and
bundling
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The Challenge for Supply Chains
Traditional approach Trade-off
New approach Reinforcement
Sustainability
Sustainability
Efficiency
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Effectiveness
Collaboration and consolidation multiple supply
chains
single supply chains
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What can we do?

• Encouraging companies to collaborate
• Bundling of flow of goods
• Clustering of activities

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Fundamentals

• Total logistics cost is top criterion
• More than transportation cost, including cost of
  inventory, waiting time, flexibility,
  reliability
• Bottom-line for companies
• Basic ideas
• Locate logistic operations at the place of their
  minimal total logistics cost
• Bundling of flows
• International gateways are the nodes of the
  network and must be encouraged to attract flows
  of goods
• Identification and classification of the
  logistics hotspots of the Extended Gateway
  network
• Creation of added value within the Extended
  Gateway network

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A total concept

• A integrated vision on logistics, a clear
  strategy
• Prime location guaranteed, depending on the
  requirements of customers, products and logistics
• Clustering of companies with comparable logistics
  characteristics for bundling flow of goods
• Lower total logistics cost
• Improved use of multimodal transport and
  collaboration among companies
• Improved spatial planning, labour spread,
  mobility, environmental care
• Powerful strategic decision support tool
• With on top an ICT-platform

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ICT platform
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