In recent years, we have seen how the exponential growth of e-commerce, last mile delivery solutions and the absence of a corporate culture focused on sustainability have produced widespread calls for attention that have caused us to rethink the way we do business. logistics and to migrate to a triple impact model., social and environmental).
Know that in logistics the future is collaborative, for which it is necessary to build alliances as a fundamental piece that allows us to renew certain paradigms that are no longer relevant, which would lead us towards a proactive collaboration between the academic world and the business world that allows us to seek solutions to achieve a sustainable last mile.
One of the fundamental pieces of this process is to assimilate that a work in common is necessary where all the actors must be involved and where the common well-being as a society prevails and not the individual, in this aspect, what role does the consumer play Let’s assume that we have abused it, and that it is not possible to deliver their products to the place they indicate, in just a few seconds, without this process causing irreparable damage to the environment, without putting towns and cities at risk of the lives of the people who inhabit them, knowing that this model is not sustainable.
A business model to which we were accustomed and to which I would in no way call logistics and which has caused many cities to abandon their attractions, both for the people who live there and for tourism, an important sector in the economy of a city therefore In the case of countries, when filling the streets of a city with vehicles, whether polluting or electric, where the speed of delivery prevails, regardless of the accidents they can cause.
Fill cities with the so-called Dark Stores where logistics is not applied, where a legal loophole was found when applying for a license as a store and not as a warehouse and where it was never taken into account whether or not it harmed the environment urban planning at the time of their establishment, where prevailed the profitability of the company and not the well-being of society, while it was essential to design a network of urban Hubs or MicroHubs and adapt them to the cities and their cultures under a corporate culture focused on sustainability.
I am aware that technology is important for last mile logistics, but one that allows us to achieve sustainable logistics, but I am also aware that until we focus on adapting logistics to cities and designing a network of urban logistics warehouses as well as considering the need to have urban consolidation centers, where we are allowed to apply collaborative logistics, as well as building alliances with stores, service stations where we can place parcel collection cabinets and sit at work tables with all the actors involved to promote research and innovation that allow us to find solutions, we will come to a point where there is no there will be more to return.
