Transforming logistics for tomorrow

Do you think you know what tomorrow’s logistics will look like?

Geopolitical crises, climate emergency, soaring consumer expectations: logistics is on the front line of every major transformation shaping the contemporary world.

But how do you turn these challenges into opportunities? How do you design warehouses that are more agile, more sustainable, and resolutely people-centred? How can robotisation reduce physical strain without dehumanising work? And how can technological innovation concretely reduce the environmental footprint of the supply chain?

This second foresight report, the fruit of research conducted alongside industry specialists, explores these questions without shying away from their complexity. It shares our convictions — grounded in real-world experience — about what tomorrow’s logistics will be, and what it must be: intelligently automated, committed to the transition, and profoundly human.

Summary

• When it comes to logistics transformation, every choice counts
  By Exotec cofounders Romain Moulin, CEO, and Renaud Heitz, CTO
• Logistics under pressure: how can we sustain innovation in today’s fast-moving world?
  By Sylvie Matelly, Economist, Director of the Institut Jacques Delors
• From e-commerce to manufacturing: 5 lessons from the giants of logistics
• The warehouse of the future comes to town: compact, green and connected
• Logistics… a new business lever in its own right
• Warehouse automation: how the arrival of robots is reshaping the work done by humans
• Did someone say “elegant innovation”?
  By Jean-Louis Frechin, Founder of the NoDesign agency and teacher