The Logistics Industry

Group D
Big Data Applicability?

Four properties highlight where big data can be most effectively applied in the logistics industry:

Optimisation of operational parameters Market Intelligence

Delivery time, resource utilization, and Direct customer interaction at pickup and
geographical coverage delivery, valuable insight gained

Integration with production Network of Information

Analytics reveals supply chain risks Valuable insight on global flow of goods,
local and decentralized operations
Real-time Route Optimization?

Combinatorial optimization procedures fed Receives instant driving direction updates

from correlated streams of real-time events from the on-board navigation system
to dynamically re-route vehicles on the go Guiding them to the next best point of
delivery

DHL SmartTruck

Daily optimized initial tour planning based shipment data

Dynamic routing system, which recalculates the routes
Cuts costs and improves CO2 efficiency
Crowd-based Pick-up and Delivery?

Real-time data stream is traced in order to Potential to cut last-mile delivery costs,
assign shipments to available carriers, based especially in rural and sparsely populated
on their respective location and destination areas
.

DHL Myways

Unique crowd-based delivery for B2C parcels

Flexible delivery in time and location
Using existing movement of city residents
Strategic Network Planning?

A much higher volume and variety of New quality of planning with expanded
information is exploited by advanced forecast periods this effectively reduces the
regression and scenario modelling risk of long-term infrastructure investments
techniques.. and contracted external capacities.

DHL Network Planner

Improve the reliability of planning with high level of detail

Enabling logistics providers to perfectly match demand
Long-term configuration of the distribution network
Market Intelligence?

With aggregation of shipment records The primary target groups for advanced data
comprising origin, destination, type of goods, services such as these are small and medium-
quantity, and value is an extensive source of sized enterprises that lack capacity to conduct
valuable market intelligence. their own customized market research.

DHL Geovista

Online geo marketing tool for SMEs

Provides realistic forecast and local competitor analysis
A desired location can be evaluated by using geo-data
Supply Chain Risk Assessment and Mitigation

Two things must be linked- model describing Robust supply chains that are able to cope
all elements of the supply chain topology, with unforeseen events which are a vital
and forces that affect the performance of the business capability in rapidly changing world
supply chain

DHL RMS

Improves the resilience of your entire supply chain

Maintain service level, protect sales
Inventory decisions, and creates competitive advantage
The Future Outlook?

Apart from the leading logistics providers that Joining resources, labor, and capital,
implement specific Big Data opportunities, information will become the fourth
the entire logistics sector transform into a production factor and key to competitive
data-driven industry. differentiation - provided by logistics

As data assumes its rightful place in this

sector, every activity within industry is bound
to get smarter, faster, and more efficient
Thank you