At the Logistics & Automation fair, CargoON by Trans.eu Group, the transport management platform designed for shippers, and the UPF Barcelona School of Management, the business school of Pompeu Fabra University, presented the first phase of the study “Business collaboration in supply chain management”. This report analyses the barriers to achieving more efficient and sustainable supply chain management based on solutions that facilitate collaboration between logistics players.
Oriol Montanyà, director of the UPF-BSM Sustainability Observatory, and Andrei Boar, director of the UPF-BSM Department of Business Strategy and Management, presented the first reflections of the study, which was born as a constructive attempt to promote collaboration between organisations in the sector. In this regard, Maximiliano Martín Vallvé, Sales Director of CargoON, called on brands, distributors, operators and transporters to join the empirical analysis that UPF-BSM and CargoON will launch next month and which has the support of Transprime and the Spanish Association of Shippers (ACE).
Supply chain management is no longer a fragmented action and is now considered a transformative factor for the economy and society. In this sense, the research shows how collaboration between shippers can transform supply chains, generating benefits such as improved operational efficiency, strengthening service and resilience, driving innovation and progress towards sustainability.
However, it also identifies important barriers, such as resistance to change, technological challenges and lack of trust, proposing practical solutions to overcome them.
