- Notable professionals from the logistics and transport sector have participated, from UNO (Spanish Logistics and Transport Business Organization), Deoleo, Ferrero and BAOBAD
- The José Luis Carreras Lario Awards for Innovation and Sustainability have been presented
This morning the Auditorium hosted the Meeting of the Chair of Sustainability and Logistics Innovation Careers, which in its eleventh edition is entitled: ‘Challenges and opportunities of FMCG logistics’. In turn, the José Luis Carreras Lario Award for innovation and sustainability was presented. This event was aimed at the entire scientific-technical and business community with an interest in logistics, transport or the supply chain.
The meeting was inaugurated by Manuel González Bedia, Vice-Rector for Innovation, Transfer and Lifelong Learning of the University of Zaragoza, together with Jesús Royo, director of the Carreras Chair.
On this occasion, the event was attended by prominent speakers who discussed the latest trends, challenges and solutions.
Carlos Sánchez, Chief Operations Officer of Deoleo, was in charge of starting this cycle of presentations with ‘Towards digitalisation in Deoleo’s logistics’. Sánchez highlighted the needs that customers demand today: “They want products sooner, with better quality and more varied”. For this reason, Deoleo, which has a global supply chain, establishes a route to operational excellence based on digitalisation and setting two clear objectives, “to think in anticipation and to look for alternatives”, says Sánchez.
Afterwards, we were able to listen to Nicolás Zirulnikow, Supply Chain Director Iberia at Ferrero, with his talk entitled ‘DEEP DATA!’, in which he spoke about technological tools and their key role in achieving agile communication between the different parts of the supply chain. In fact, Zirulnikow insists that there is a huge variety of them that will allow “the integration of systems, predictive models, intelligent alerts and collaborative dashboards, we will be data managers”.
Next, Raimundo Gonzalo, CEO of BAOBAD SupplyOps, presented us through his conference ‘Transforming operations. AI Decision’ the multiple possibilities offered by the simulation of scenarios to improve the operations developed by logistics operators given that “on many occasions determining the objective through a simulation, that is, establishing theoretical improvements that are then applied to solve problems of reality”, explains Gonzalo.
And, finally, Francisco Aranda, president of UNO, the Spanish Logistics and Transport Business Organization, put the finishing touch to the round of presentations with ‘Mass Consumption Logistics in the new context of permacrisis’. Aranda says that a transport and logistics company is currently expected to be “a partner in this transformation that transmits confidence, transparency and long-term vision”. In turn, he listed the different problems faced by the sector such as absenteeism, the lack of drivers and the general rise in costs, as well as the challenges to face the energy transition. However, Aranda says that Spain is “a magnificent country for logistics” given its capacity, connections and infrastructure.
IV Edition of the José Luis Carreras Lario Award: Innovation and Academic Sustainability.
After the presentations, the awards ceremony of the Fourth Edition of the José Luis Carreras Lario Award for innovation and sustainability began. An emotional and special event for Carreras Grupo Logístico as it honours the memory of José Luis Carreras, a director of the transport and logistics sector who also stood out for his involvement in various business associations and Aragonese society.
In this edition, the winners in the category of Best Academic Work have been Javier Frechilla, for his master’s thesis: “Analysis of the application of laser technology for the production of hydrogen” and Raúl Iranzo for his master’s thesis: “SLAM Monocular at Metric Scale in Colonoscopy”. Also, a second prize has been awarded to Cristian Barón, for his master’s thesis: “Modeling of a Calcium-Looping plant: techno-economic comparison with other technologies in the steel industry”.
The Chair of Sustainability and Logistics Innovation Careers was founded on September 21, 2011 by the University of Zaragoza and Carreras Logistics Group. Its objective is to contribute to the field of Supply Chain, innovation and sustainable logistics, promoting research and the dissemination of knowledge in these areas.
