ABSTRACT
Global supply chains have reached critical capacity, resulting in escalating prices, long delivery times, and has had a crippling effect on manufacturing, health care, agriculture, and commerce in general. In addition, the cascading effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as other intra-supply chain problems have resulted in a 40-year high inflation and degradations in quality of life, employment, GNP, and personal and national security. During the pandemic, shortages in the workforce and all transportation carrier modes forced the acceleration of digitally powered solutions for capacity improvements. At the same time, emerging technologies in autonomy, electrification, fuel cells, and low carbon powerplants are pushing the envelope of OEM development for over-the-road trucks, aircraft, and maritime vessels. These new transportation modes offer clean, low noise, and high safety operations, which promise to move people and goods faster, cleaner, and ultimately more affordably between origin and destination. This paper provides an overview of general logistics issues that can assist VTOL designers and operators in determining critical configuration parameters, location demographics, flight operations, and emerging Aircraft On Ground (AOG) technologies to maximize near-term ROI for transformative VTOL aircraft. Copyright © 2022 by the Vertical Flight Society. All rights reserved
ABSTRACT
The current business environment seeks practice-oriented logistics solutions to sustain the pandemic situation. Increased capacity in the air freight supply chain and cargo freight operations will necessitate simplified methods to improve cargo handling efficiency. We have investigated the impact of covid 19 scenarios on global airfreight handling services. The findings of a simulation study done on a case of an Indian International Airport specialized cargo division are presented in this article. We addressed the influence of the COVID19 pandemic on supply chains by providing recent instances from one of India's biggest international airports in the eastern zone. Using anyLogistix simulation software, we demonstrate how simulation modeling rapidly and accurately simulates and evaluates supply chain interruptions. The findings of this study may help decision-makers predict operational and tactical risk mitigation methods, as well as the effects of pandemic disruptions. © 2021 IEEE.
ABSTRACT
Cross-border e-commerce, as a new business model, has gradually replaced the traditional trade model. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies encountered bottlenecks, mainly because products could not adapt to the rapid changes in consumption and products were out of stock due to weak logistics system. Through our observation of the current marketing situation and problems, we analyze that sellers need to enhance their adaptability and risk resistance in the pandemic environment, especially in the face of the new trends in cross-border e-commerce. Based on this, we propose a strategic optimization plan, including product optimization, sales channel optimization, brand optimization and logistics optimization. To ensure the implementation of the strategy, we designed a guaranteed roadmap, including user-demand oriented product development management, improvement of human resource management structure, optimization of operation structure and logistics supply chain enhancement. Finally, we hope this solution to be effective in a pandemic situation. © 2022, ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.