Monday started with a great nights rest. We woke up and had an early breakfast where I was greeted by my professors at breakfast and got ready to head to Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona for a Logistics Management course. His name was Albert and he had a very good presentation on transports and how goods move through Europe. He talked about the current challenges in Supply chain that include Raw materials shortages, inflation, and digital transformation. After we left the lecture we went to lunch at La Pepa where the food was ok, probably wouldn’t go back there. We returned from lunch via metro and had a class session with Dr. Gonzalez on the lean process and what to prepare for tomorrow. Time to buckle down and get some assignments done and have yet another productive tomorrow.
Notes from visit:
Albert Logistics Management
-4 main parts: Supply chain, storage, distribution, transports
-Types of transports: road, rail, air, sea.
Road and Sea most important today
-90% of transport is sea travel
-Logistics is all the processes on movement of goods. Careful organization of complicated activity so it happens Inca successful and effective way.
- Objective: to plan and coordinate all activity at lowest possible cost. Purpose of logistics is to satisfy customers movement of goods in the marketplace.
- Switching from just in time to just in case.
7 R’s:
- Right time. Days to hours
- Right place. DCs to stores becoming DCs
- Right price. Importance to pay for convenience.
- Right product. Make to transport into wider scope of products being shipped together.
- Right quantity. Pallets to eaches
- Right customer. Business2Business to D2C
- Right condition. Important to Perfect
Eaches is picking unities in a product
Future of Logistics Video free documentary
- Find solutions to problems based off of tons of data to make adjustments.
- Logistics started in the military to organize battles.
- Geopolitical change causing adjustments in supply chain.
- DHL distribution center coordinates movement of parcels each night to get packages where they need to go.
- By delivering by bike they save emissions from multiple vans and reduce their carbon footprint.
- Bikes make delivering packages faster than vans in city centers.
- Top trends: AI, smart sensors, collaborative robotics, drones.
- Zero waste emission and latency across all processes
- EU has tried to make sustainability a requirement. Reduce dependence on air and road travel and increase train and sea travel.
Amazon warehouse video:
- Deep Learning AI
- Mecalux
Transports: Road
- Advanatges:
Less investment
Less risk of damage
Door to door service
Transports
- you can tell the economy of a country from its transports
- Global transport 70%-90% of frieght
- EU transport 50% road transport, 33% EU transport
Types of ships
- bulk carrier 45%
- Oil tanker 28%
- Container ship
- Chemical tanker
- LNG (natural gas) ship
- VLCC
- Roro
- General cargo
- Livestock ship
Supply chain challenges in 2023
- raising freight prices
- Raw materials shortage
- Congestion at Ports
- Inflation
- Digital transformation
- Supply chain ESG
- Demand forecasting
Climate change problem is transportation. Electric switch to oil
Andon
Technology is great but labor is important if there is a problem.
Sustainability
Air is 560g of co2 by transporting one ton of good per kilometer