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Fashion logistics: filling the gaps for a better customer experience
Blog posts • Aug 16, 2019 14:30 CEST
Logistics providers need to fill vital gaps to deliver a better customer experience with transparency at the consumer level. This will determine their position to provide the necessary services and even disrupt the future fashion industry. Mattias Praetorius, global head of the Consumer, Retail and Fashion industry vertical at Panalpina, looks at the trends in this blog post.
Generational shift in fashion logistics: stepping up to the challenge
Blog posts • Aug 14, 2019 17:30 CEST
We’re about to experience a generational shift. The sooner the fashion and logistics industries become fully digitally enabled, the better for speed to market, which will continue to be the top priority. Mattias Praetorius, global head of the Consumer, Retail and Fashion industry vertical at Panalpina, looks at what generational and behavioral changes among consumers mean for fashion logistics.
Blockchain for pharma’s blockbusters
News • Jul 01, 2019 15:50 CEST
How would you trace and authenticate unique and valuable products within the healthcare and pharmaceutical supply chain? Panalpina’s hacker team took a stab at creating real-world blockchain solutions to share data within and across enterprises.
Creating an innovative, visionary Global IT Support Center
News • Jun 12, 2019 08:56 CEST
The road towards standardised and highly efficient IT support
Blockchain: Moving from hype to tangible benefits for supply chains
Blog posts • Jun 11, 2019 09:00 CEST
The initial glitter of blockchain may have taken a beating, but concrete steps are underway to turn its promise into tangible business applications. A keen mover of digital technologies in freight forwarding and logistics, Panalpina has narrowed the use cases for this industry and started a pilot to play the benefits of blockchain to make supply chains more efficient.
New Panalpina customer portal: bringing the future of digital supply chain management to transport logistic in Munich
Press releases • Jun 03, 2019 15:00 CEST
Panalpina will present its new customer portal this week at transport logistic 2019, the world’s leading trade fair for logistics and supply chain management. Collaborative shipment management, fully-automated instant quotation and lane risk assessment make the portal unique in the industry. Interested parties can test the customer portal in Munich before it will be made available later this year.
Panalpina developers tackle traceability in pharma product supply chains at blockchain hackathon
News • May 24, 2019 10:15 CEST
A team of Panalpina IT developers from Basel and Lisbon will take a crack at creating solutions for better traceability and authentication within pharma product supply chains. They will take up the challenge to advance real-world blockchain solutions and join other competing teams at the Swiss Blockchain Hackathon being held from June 21 to 23, 2019 at the Trust Square blockchain hub in Zurich.
In-depth lane risk assessments for Panalpina’s healthcare customers
News • May 16, 2019 15:55 CEST
A single shipment of pharmaceuticals is easily worth millions, so you want to make sure that temperature control and security are tight from beginning to end. With Panalpina’s lane risk assessments for over 2,500 trade lanes, customers get to see who can do what along the transport chain, where potential risks are and how they can be mitigated.
DSV’s new supply chain service uses data to predict and improve
News • May 15, 2019 08:00 CEST
DSV Lead Logistics is a market-changing way of providing intelligent lead logistics – or 4PL – to the world’s leading businesses.
Startups pitch their hottest LogTech ideas to transform global supply chains
News • Apr 24, 2019 11:00 CEST
From predictive analytics to drone technology, digital technologies are disrupting global supply chains and challenging logistics providers to up their game in shipment visibility and last-mile delivery. Ten startups had the opportunity to pitch their latest ideas at the LogTech Innovation Day, jointly organized by Panalpina and Plug and Play. Here’s a roundup of the event.
Innovator teams battle it out in Panalpina’s first Kickbox to develop new digital solutions for logistics
News • Mar 04, 2019 15:15 CET
An algorithm for potential lost customer control in logistics was the winner in the first Kickbox organized by the Panalpina Digital Hub, Panalpina HR and Zurich-based incubator BlueLion. The winning entry came from the team Capture+ from Panalpina Switzerland, which was among three finalists that pitched their Kickbox ideas to a jury in Basel on February 26.
Panalpina joins Cargo sous terrain initiative aimed at revolutionizing logistics
News • Feb 26, 2019 12:00 CET
Panalpina is pleased to join Cargo sous terrain (CST), the Swiss-led consortium set to transform logistics and propel the industry into digitalization. As a shareholder, Panalpina will seek representation on the CST supervisory board and adopt a leading role in developing the CST logistics system and sharing expert know-how.
Panalpina launches industry-leading customer portal
Press releases • Feb 20, 2019 11:45 CET
Panalpina announces the launch of its new state-of-the-art digital customer portal. The portal enables customers to benefit from a wide range of instant and real-time services. It is currently available to selected customers by invitation only and will be launched globally this summer.
Panalpina’s Air Freight pros use IATA digital industry encyclopedia
News • Feb 19, 2019 15:30 CET
Panalpina is the first freight forwarder to subscribe globally for digital IATA manuals access. Panalpina Air Freight specialists worldwide can now access online the latest regulations and industry standards. This way, Panalpina offers faster and even more efficient services while ensuring safer and greener Air Freight operations.
Panalpina delights customers with mixed reality experience
News • Feb 13, 2019 16:30 CET
Firmly setting its sights on innovation, customer centricity and digitalization, Panalpina delighted visitors at its Fruit Logistica stand with a holographic experience. The mixed (or hybrid) reality application showcased the journey of fruits and flowers in holographic animations. Find out what it was all about!
Perishables and e-commerce: Is the real promise in B2B?
Blog posts • Feb 05, 2019 12:30 CET
Perishables continue to spur the growth of global logistics. With Fruit Logistica in Berlin this week, we look at how e-commerce is factoring into the perishables industry. Driver or disruptor: the views are not clear-cut, and business-to-business (B2B) might turn out to be the big winner.
IT Center of Excellence in Lisbon celebrates its second year with more growth
News • Jan 21, 2019 10:10 CET
Panalpina continues to expand its digital capabilities through its IT Center of Excellence (CoE) in Lisbon, with more office space, new employees and more projects aimed at accelerating the company’s IT initiatives.
Panalpina partners with Plug and Play
News • Dec 20, 2018 15:05 CET
Panalpina has joined the global innovation platform Plug and Play, the best known and most active accelerator program in the area of supply chain and logistics.
Panalpina and Cargolux make great strides in Cargo iQ performance
News • Dec 13, 2018 13:40 CET
Together with Cargo iQ fellow member and long-standing partner Cargolux, Panalpina has just been awarded with the first prize of the first ever Cargo iQ Q Rally, an industry initiative aimed at continuously improving data quality in air freight. As Panalpina’s Marie Seco-Köppen explains, “Better data quality results in a better air freight product, for example in terms of shorter transit times.”
Panalpina and Honeywell partner on new technology solutions
Press releases • Nov 28, 2018 17:15 CET
Panalpina has entered into a strategic alliance with technology company Honeywell to enhance worker productivity, accuracy, and efficiency across its global distribution centers.