Center for Digital in Transportation
We partner with freight and logistics companies to deploy digital levers, including digital platforms, predictive analytics, advanced monitoring, and automation of operations.
Armed with digital technologies, advanced analytics, and a vast pool of customer data, we help logistics and freight companies home in on services their customers want—so they can deliver an end-to-end offering without buying or owning expensive shipping assets.
Freight forwarding and logistics companies continue to be vexed by overcapacity in the industry and competition from players all across the value chain. Surmounting these ongoing challenges is not impossible—unless companies come at the problems in the same way they always have. With our help, they can use digital technologies to develop a variety of innovative business models that will dramatically improve the customer experience and eliminate entrenched operational inefficiencies.
Our freight and logistics consulting team partners with companies specializing in sea forwarding, freight forwarding, contract logistics, road and air freight, and cargo.
We partner with freight and logistics companies to deploy digital levers, including digital platforms, predictive analytics, advanced monitoring, and automation of operations.
Through this center, we help clients address such shared challenges as congestion, pollution, and the development of new technologies. We help clients connect with the right stakeholders at each stage of the value chain to take new ideas from the drawing board to the street.
When the mobility experts at Penske began building a new AI platform for their B2B customers, they partnered with BCG. Sherry Sanger, Penske’s EVP of Strategy and Marketing, explains how the company combines their data and expertise with evolving technology.
Twill Logistics is one example of how we partner with clients to develop digital capabilities. BCG developed this in-house digital-forwarding offering to expand a major shipping liner’s service.
Launching a startup within a giant global company required an experimental and fully collaborative approach that Twill’s original CEO described as BCG and Twill “being joined at the hip” to ensure that the new program got the expertise and support it needed.
Creating a Blockchain-Enabled Information-Sharing Solution. We worked with two of the biggest players in the freight industry to create an interconnected ecosystem of supply chain partners. TradeLens, the result of our collaboration, is a solution that supports transparency across the value chain and encourages innovation in supply chain management. It was one of the first applications for blockchain technology in the sector, and many partners have joined the ecosystem since its launch.
B Capital Group, a global venture capital firm in partnership with BCG, invests in business-to-business startups during their early expansion stage and fosters partnerships between entrepreneurs and corporate leaders. We enjoy particular success connecting entrepreneurs with corporations seeking to adopt emerging technologies.
BCG X, BCG's tech build and design unit, partners with our freight and logistics strategy experts, helping companies develop AI-powered solutions and machine-learning algorithms that our clients own and integrate into their unique technology stack.
Our tool provides decision makers in the logistics and freight industry with a powerful cockpit for steering operational choices. The tool compiles data on 7 industries, 25 market segments and subsegments, and 31 financial KPIs. Get a complete picture of the industry's forecast trends and assess your company’s relative performance.
Supply and demand are more balanced, but disruptions across the Continent—and around the world—mean that road-freight customers must adapt to a far more volatile market.
To counter sinking revenue and rising costs, trucking industry players are reevaluating their customer contracts and employee value proposition as they plan far-reaching operational changes.
Although executives in the testing, inspection, certification, and compliance industry recognize the power and impact of digital, adoption lags behind other industries.
Digital startups are targeting the road freight industry because several pain points present an opportunity to transform the market.