| Challenge Owner(s) |
Bollore Logistics Singapore, Schneider Electric, Unilever Foundry
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|---|---|
| Organiser(s) |
SGInnovate, Economic Development Board (EDB)
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| Industry Type(s) |
Air Transport, Circular Economy & Sustainability, Digital/ICT, Electronics, Land Transport
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| Opportunities and Support | Opportunities to connect with open innovation leaders in Singapore and the region |
| Application Start Date | 1 June 2021 |
| Application End Date | 1 August 2021 |
| Website | Click here to learn more |
About Challenge
Artificial Intelligence, advanced robotics, blockchain technology, big data and the Internet of Things transform the supply chain and logistics industry every day. To better meet new market demands and achieve operational excellence, supply chains of the future need to be more agile, sustainable and resilient, particularly following the Covid-19 pandemic.
Supply chain professionals have recognised that to solve the industry’s most pertinent problems; they need to transform their business models, adopt digital technologies, and collaborate with the ecosystem, particularly with startups.
Presented by SGInnovate and EDB, this Reverse Pitch event series aims to spotlight market demands for frontier technologies to better inform the startup community to support their go-to-market efforts.
At these Reverse Pitch events, corporate leaders will present their problem statements and innovation needs that they are open to working with startups on.
This session on Supply Chain and Logistics featured stories from three leading supply chain companies – Bolloré Logistics, Schneider Electric, and Unilever Foundry.
| Challenge Owner(s) | Bollore Logistics Singapore |
|---|---|
| Industry Types(s) | Digital/ICT, Electronics, Logistics |
Bollore Logistics
Co-packing: kitting of few components (e.g. promo boxes)
- Small batches, high mix of fragile SKUs in different sizes, shapes, quantities
- Dwindling workforce in Singapore and increasing volumes
Pilot and development support opportunities for startups (Technology Readiness Levels of 4 and above)
What We Are Looking For
- Automated human tasks, time capture to better understand the process
- Automated product handling (shaping, insertion, closing, final packing) with flexible range of shapes and sizes, small changeover time
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| Challenge Owner(s) | Bollore Logistics Singapore |
|---|---|
| Industry Types(s) | Air Transport, Circular Economy & Sustainability, Land Transport, Logistics, Sea Transport |
Bollore Logistics
Our 4R policy: Remove > Reduce > Reuse > Recycle
Making supply chain sustainable is at the core of our strategy
Pilot and development support opportunities for startups (Technology Readiness Levels of 4 and above)
What We Are Looking For
- Alternative transport modes/fuel
- Alternative packing materials, processes and end-to-end services
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| Challenge Owner(s) | Bollore Logistics Singapore |
|---|---|
| Industry Types(s) | Digital/ICT, Logistics |
Bollore Logistics
Data management is overall very time consuming...
- Consolidating financial, operational and environmental data for each of our operations (100+ just in SG)
- Most time spent in modelling, building and maintaining glossary, and engineering (ETL...)
Pilot and development support opportunities for startups (Technology Readiness Levels of 4 and above)
What We Are Looking For
To leverage technology and best practices to turn our middle managers into data citizens
- We need solutions to give us insights or even automate some of these tasks
- Anything data-wise must be super easy to understand and use
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| Challenge Owner(s) | Bollore Logistics Singapore |
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| Industry Types(s) | Digital/ICT, Logistics |
Bollore Logistics
We have demonstrated the value of digitalisation, but
- Less than 25% of our staff in Singapore use a computer
- Scanning devices have limited capabilities
- Many processes remain paper-based or are not tracked at all
Pilot and development support opportunities for startups (Technology Readiness Levels of 4 and above)
What We Are Looking For
We are on the lookout for the perfect low-code platforms (cloud, device-agnostic, interoperable, easy to use) to capture more relevant data and improve efficiency.
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| Challenge Owner(s) | Schneider Electric |
|---|---|
| Industry Types(s) | Digital/ICT, Logistics, Wholesale Trade |
Schneider Electric
To review our Air/Ocean freight bills requires administrative staff's time to verify against complex rate cards for multiple vendors
- Manual Processes
- Non-standardisation
- Complexity
Schneider Electric is open to providing relevant startups with data sets and access to their site and team for understanding the problem statement.
What We Are Looking For
Automatic 3-way invoice match against shipment information and rate cards, for air or ocean freight and customs brokerage or trucking operations.
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| Challenge Owner(s) | Schneider Electric |
|---|---|
| Industry Types(s) | Digital/ICT, Logistics, Wholesale Trade |
Schneider Electric
To get one shipment booked, it goes through ~20 people with more than 20 different interactions. A highly manual process which lack standardisation/optimisation and visibility.
- Manual process
- Non-standardisatin
- Complexity
Schneider Electric is open to providing relevant startups with data sets and access to their site and team for understanding the problem statement.
What We Are Looking For
To automate this highly manual process and improve the standardisation/optimisation and visibility of the booking process.
Objective:
- Digitisation in the supply chain
- Decentralised platform for export booking process
- Document repository for all the export shipments
- Visibility of shipments at booking stage
Project Vision:
- Standardise and streamline the booking process
- Increase efficiency by optimising the process
- Breaking the silos by ensuring a seamless process flow
- One decentralised system - for better communication and control on the shipment
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| Challenge Owner(s) | Unilever Foundry |
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| Industry Types(s) | Digital/ICT, Logistics |
Unilever Foundry
Current logistics management systems are not well integrated.
What We Are Looking For
We're looking for an Integrator Platform to synchronise different transportation, yard, and warehousing systems to optimise resources and unlock efficiency with speed.
Unilever is looking for early-stage startups with robust solutions and readiness to grow with Unilever.
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| Challenge Owner(s) | Unilever Foundry |
|---|---|
| Industry Types(s) | Digital/ICT, Logistics |
Unilever Foundry
Ina very dynamic environment where customers demand rapid change in areas such as Product, Delivery destination, Delivery window, processes in distribution centers (put away, picking, and pallet building) must meet expectations and improve logistics efficiency.
What We Are Looking For
We're looking for a warehouse slotting solution which takes into account customer demands that may change rapidly (such as product, delivery destination, delivery window), in order to improve logistics efficiency.
Unilever is looking for early-stage startups with robust solutions and readiness to grow with Unilever.
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| Challenge Owner(s) | Unilever Foundry |
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| Industry Types(s) | Circular Economy & Sustainability, Digital/ICT, Logistics |
Unilever Foundry
After offloading goods or materials, trucks are often empty on the return trip, releasing CO2 in our environment, while other companies look to book trucks to transport their goods.
What We Are Looking For
We're looking for a green transport platform to help enable sharing of resources, to minimise empty transport legs and protect our planet.
Unilever is looking for early-stage startups with robust solutions and readiness to grow with Unilever.
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