Critical Issues

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Technology report.

LogisticsHandling.com spoke with leading representatives from the analyst community about many of the current key talking points and areas of innovation taking place within the world of enterprise resource management (ERP) software and solutions.

Logistics UK shares the Transport Committee’s disappointment regarding government’s response to the Fuelling the Future report.

The global reflective air packaging market is anticipated to accumulate a market value of US$ 7.7 billion in 2023 and is expected to garner a valuation of US$ 14 billion by exhibiting a CAGR of 6.1% in the forecast period 2023 to 2033. The Reflective Air Packaging market reflected a 4.8% CAGR in the historical period 2018 to 2022.

Walk around the aisles of a local shop: aside from the prices, little has changed since the introduction of the bar code in the 1970s. While customers have smartphones in their pockets and there are sophisticated inventory management systems in the background, the digital revolution has yet to alter the packaging of most consumer items.

In this issue we feature a Special Technology Report looking in depth at the latest developments in the world of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and related technology.

Also included is a ‘Cover Story’: Trust and security – The essential ingredients for the future of generative AI. Here, Gartner discusses what data and analytics leaders responsible for AI development need to know about AI trust, risk and security management.

Parisa Maleki, Community & Content Manager at Easyfairs, discusses how packaging design needs to adapt to its new responsibilities, what this means for the unboxing phenomenon, and how blending product and package is the way to go.

The worst drought for 70 years has hit the Panama Canal, forcing strict new regulations that slash the capacity of some containerships by 40%. New surcharges, rising costs and increasing bottlenecks will likely increase the price of UK-US goods, warns the international delivery expert ParcelHero.

Commercial drivers are being ignored when it comes to their right to use proper hygiene and rest facilities while working, according to business group Logistics UK.

Jonathan Walker, Head of Cities and Infrastructure Policy at Logistics UK, is stressing the group’s call for the delivery of urgent reform to the planning system, which would both facilitate the provision of more parking facilities on key routes and incentivise investment from the private sector.

UK SMEs are urged to complete a risk assessment, after new research reveals that one third of businesses do not have a policy in place.

The global alu alu blister packaging machine Market is expected to register a market value of US$ 24.27 billion in 2023 and is projected to accumulate a valuation of US$ 42 billion by exhibiting a CAGR of 5.6% in the forecast period 2023 to 2033.

Environmental compliance specialist, Ecoveritas, has called on world leaders set to gather in Paris this week for the UN's second International Negotiating Committee (INC-2) to count Extended Producer Responsibility among the key provisions for inclusion to ensure circularity.