Collaborative urban logistics – Synchronizing the last mile

• Main Authors: DE SOUZA, Robert, GOH, Mark, LAU, Hoong Chuin, NG, Wee-Siong, TAN, Puay-Siew
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Collaborative; urban; synchronisation; Singapore; last mile; coordination; Asian Studies; Urban Studies and Planning
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3938; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4940/viewcontent/Collaborative_Urban_Logistics___Synchronizing_the_Last_Mile.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The synchronized last mile logistics concept seeks to address, through coordinated collaboration, several challenges that hinderreliability, cost efficiency, effective resource planning, scheduling and utilization; and increasingly, sustainability objectives.Subsequently, the meeting of service level and contractual commitments are competitively impacted with any loss of efficiency.These challenges, against a backdrop of Singapore, can essentially be addressed in selected industry sectors through a betterunderstanding of logistics structures; innovative supply chain designs and coordination of services, operations and processescoupled with concerted policies and supply chain strategies.