Expereo Navigating the Digital Shift in the Logistics Industry: Building High-Performance, Secure, and Scalable Networks
IT teams in the Logistics sector face a challenge of balancing the need to implement performance enhancing technologies with the demand to ensure consistency and resilience across a wide and diverse set of locations.
On one hand, there is a promise of AI and analytics technologies to enable predictive maintenance, route optimization, and demand forecasting which allow them to better serve customers and reduce costs, to maximise profits. Combined with that are the multiple connected technologies that provide crucial supply chain visibility to meet customer demands for instant visibility and drive towards sustainability goals.
On the other hand there is the challenge of ensuring that the network infrastructure is in place to help ensure that these technologies reach maximum efficancy, combined with a need to ensure that a widely interconnected network has the required resilience to protect the business from threats that could halt operations and damage their reputation.
Successful implementation of these critical technologies depends on a global, high-performance, and resilient network infrastructure.
Join industry experts and IT leaders as we discuss how IT teams in the Logistics industry can optimise their networks to support digitally-driven efficiency, minimise business disruption, and drive sustainable growth.
This roundtable will explore the core challenges Technologies Leaders in the Logistics industry face when building and managing networks that can satisfy the varied demands of driving profitability, resilience and sustainability:
Network Performance & Visibility: As AI and data-driven initiatives become central to innovation and growth, Logistic leaders must ensure their networks can handle unprecedented bandwidth demands without unnecessary and costly overprovisioning. They need to be able to quickly expand their network capability in new locations, whilst ensuring they have visibility of network health across the world.
Global Reach and Capabilities: The increasingly interconnected nature of the Logistics sector, driven by a hunger for efficiency, has created a need for global internet/cloud connectivity. Supporting that connectivity across a highly-geographically dispersed set of sites, means managing a diverse network across multiple locations with varying connectivity providers, SLAs and regional complexities, creating operational challenges that need strategic solutions.
Network Resilience: In Europe the Transportation sector was subject to the second highest number of cyber attacks, the vast majority of which were denial of service attacks. Logistics leaders must build networks that are globally resilient to mitigate risks and ensure operational continuity.