Logistics of the future

Анотація

Transport is one of the main branches of the economy of each state, and freight transportation is a key element in the operation of any business. In an age of active development of Internet technologies to help businesses come to modern logistics solutions. The market forces the business to invent new logistics solutions urgently, which means that technologies will become a part of daily trading.

The last few years have given logistics a number of revolutionary solutions in the field of transportation of people and goods. The idea of using different kinds of unmanned vehicles for delivery of cargo, be it small drones or huge container ships, has long possessed the minds of business representatives [1]. Therefore, it is expected that for a considerable time the business will use a hybrid system that combines unmanned vehicles and classic transportation using human labor. Another trend in modern logistics is flexibility and dynamism. Modern consumers want to get the perfect store that combines the highest standards of classical trade - an individual approach, recommendations taking into account the tastes and interests of the buyer, the opportunity to view the product in full detail and receive it immediately after payment, - without losing the freedom to make purchases anywhere and at convenient time. The logical continuation of automation of logistics is the robotization of warehouses and hubs. After completing the purchase, the system will independently determine the availability of the necessary goods in warehouses, analyze the delivery parameters and change the courier route, taking into account a variety of factors, including time delivery windows, courier location and road situation on the route, cargo size and weight, transport characteristics and degree loading, availability of free docks at the time of expected arrival of the transport. Thus, the warehouse and the car can be connected to a single, self-maintaining system that will be monitored in real time by an operator who does not need to be directly in the warehouse. This will optimally load both transport and docks, not allowing queues to be formed in warehouses, providing the shortest delivery time, and also reducing the likelihood of errors.

This solution must meet the following criteria: stable information exchange between the corporate information system and the mobile device (even in offline mode); data filtering (for simultaneous transmission of a large amount of data); high rates of speed, accuracy and detailing of information received by the operator; integration with various operating systems, including several simultaneously. The development of software for the logistics of the future can be conducted on the basis of already existing solutions for the automation of logistics systems that we can see on figure 1. [2]

Some of them already meet some of the requirements, although, undoubtedly, the problem of efficient and rapid transmission of large amounts of information between mobile devices and the corporate information system is still key. It is likely that in a few years completely automated logistics systems and delivery within one day will become familiar phenomena, again drastically changing the rules of the game in trade.