e-commerce = e-logistics
E-logistics refers to the increasingly close combination between logistics, online commerce and the use of the latest technologies in the supply chain.
The rise of e-commerce has fostered many changes in stages such as product storage and last-mile deliveries, encouraging the development of new processes within what is now known as eLogistics (electronic logistics or e-commerce logistics).
eLogistics are all the logistics processes that are carried out in an e-commerce, in order to offer online customers a satisfactory shopping experience. Thus, eLogistics or electronic logistics makes stages such as stock management, storage, logistics transport, among others, more adapted to the new demands of the digital age and e-commerce trends.
As e-commerce is a commercial activity that has its center in an almost impersonal transaction, the points of direct contact with the client are crucial. This is how eLogistics will determine the success of a sale, fostering the best conditions for product distribution and last-mile delivery to take place effectively.
Summarizing the two previous paragraphs, we find that almost 85% (and increasingly) of final sales businesses have an e-commerce that requires strategic logistics.
There are several stages in this online process:
- Stock management
- Storage
- Picking
- Distribution transport
- Reverse logistics
We are in a field that has new technologies and more and more is being invested in their development.
Amazon was already talking a couple of years ago about making its deliveries with automated Drones; robot operators will be needed for logistics and assembly management in large chains; there will be driverless taxis; AI-controlled warehouses…
The economic sector of logistics is an expanding sector that will generate tens of thousands of qualified and highly specialized jobs in our country, always innovating, growing and betting on the technological future.
We don’t want to say goodbye this week without leaving you a curious fact; Did you know that there is a movie called “Logistics”, or “Logistics Art Project” that is the longest in the history of cinema?
857 hours, or 35 days and 17 hours. That is the duration of “Logistics”, a journey through logistics that is now seven years old. Set your sights on the path a product takes, but seen in reverse: from the store where it is sold to the place where it is produced, known as reverse logistics. Erika Magnusson and Daniel Andersson are the creators of this unusual project, which asks where and how the goods we consume come from. It all started with this question and a simple Google search for one word: logistics. Four years later, they were on a container ship bound for Shenzhen, China. Magnusson and Anderson affirm that sometimes the world is unfathomable. So is human curiosity, which led them to question whether taking the same journey as the products would bring them closer to understanding more about the world and the global economy.
You know, if you feel like “spending the afternoon”…
Would you like us to write a blog post about the logistics in the cinema?
