News / The future will be "open, automated and synchro-modal"

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By 2020, supply chains should be completely paperless and incorporate a 100% open data plan, claimed Dr Walther Ploos van Amstel.  The Dutch doctor of logistics gave a timeline insight into what logistics companies should be aiming to achieve within the next 30 years, and drew specific emphasis into how companies need to build synchro-modality and collaborate with each other.

With the future comes inevitable change, and he predicted that that the most pertinent would be a surge in fuel prices, ...