Danger: Gridlock Ahead
Download this article published in Logistics Europe magazine on road infrastructure issues
22 August 2006
The capacity of road infrastructure is lagging behind demand and it is set to get worse. So with supply chains efficiency and JIT deliveries under threat, costs are almost certain to increase. Will increasing road congestion gridlock your business?
This article by Capgemini’s Roger West and Marc Meunier published in Logistics Europe highlights the infrastructure issues, especially in the UK where supply chain costs are increasing, making it more and more unreliable. Options to help on this for supply chains are: Increased collaboration, asset management, sharing logistics assets through the use of new technologies as RFID and agent-based optimization tools.
