In a bid to offer support in capacity utilisation of commercial vehicle fleets, monitoring goods flows and order processing, all from a single source, the global technology company Bosch has entered a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
According to a communication from Bosch, the collaboration will help the customers quick and easy access to digital services through a platform powered by AWS.
Bosch will be responsible for developing and operating the logistics platform, the core of which is a marketplace for digital services, while AWS will contribute its comprehensive cloud offering and expertise. The platform will facilitate smooth interaction between a variety of services and data, enabling transportation and logistics companies to benefit much more from the opportunities of digitalisation without having to set up their own resource- and cost-intensive IT projects.
With its logistics platform, Bosch aims to provide a key solution for many of the challenges facing the transportation and logistics industry. The advantage of this platform is that it will create an entire ecosystem and a software environment in which freight carriers and forwarders can select, book, and execute different providers’ services to meet their specific needs. The platform also allows for easy integration of applications that are already relevant to the market, for instance, in transportation management systems. Thanks to the shared usage of data available through the telematics systems in commercial vehicles, for example, from fleet management, it is also possible to link and allow interplay between different services from different areas. This makes it easier to leverage synergies.
The marketplace will also be open to all digital logistics services providers. For example, industry and consumers will benefit from the initiative because of greater reliability and transparency in goods and parcel delivery. The companies plan to present a preliminary version of the logistics platform at Hannover Messe, with the launch for Europe, India, and the US set for late 2022, the company said.
Sandeep Nelamangala, Executive Director, Bosch Limited, and Executive Sponsor of logistics platform business at Bosch, said, “The transportation and logistics industry is the backbone of the global economy. In the years ahead, it will have to shoulder continuously increasing transport volumes for goods and commodities while simultaneously reducing its carbon footprint. In collaboration with AWS, we want to help the logistics industry with this. We aim to ring in the future of the industry and drive forward its digitalisation, “