With online commerce and the manufacturing sector on the upswing, and everything from IoT to blockchain to drones, delivery robots, and autonomous semi trucks and ships promising further advances, it’s arguably never been a better time to be in the supply chain and logistics business.

Yet for logistics companies it can be challenging to meet the needs of the industrial and enterprise sectors as they face a number of significant challenges.

This report explores some of the top challenges facing inbound and outbound logistics industries. It also explains how those involved should go about driving digital supply chain transformation.

This report will also explain how deploying technologies that have important roles in the digital transformation of the logistic sector haphazardly can lead to a number of pitfalls including IoT, robotics, blockchain and autonomous vehicles.

Additionally, we discuss how executives discounting the possibilities of digital supply chain transformation risk putting their organization at a competitive disadvantage, as do those who embrace the concept but lack a clear vision for how to implement it.

This report also covers:

• A look at the digital supply chain transformation from logistics companies getting involved in production to fundamental changes in supply chain and logistics and what it means if you are leading or lagging in terms of supply chain innovation.
• Blockchain and whether or not it can live up to its promise to transform logistics.
• The impact of autonomous vehicle technology and how it could influence the field of logistics.