Project description DEENESFRITPL An SME solution for sustainable last-mile delivery logistics E-commerce has changed the relationship between consumers and the market, playing a central role in our daily commercial and social activities. The logistic infrastructures of SMEs are not able to meet the rising demand of the market, particularly as regards the last-mile delivery. The EU-funded SWIFTLY project proposes a platform that meets SME needs, offering the last-mile delivery sector a sustainable, competent and low CO2 solution. The project is developing two tools: a bundling algorithm that perfectionates burdens and deliveries, and a pricing algorithm that finds the best and more convenient price for both parts. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective The rapid growth in e-commerce is changing the consumer behavior, increasing the logistic burden in last-mile delivery. From this fact are arisen two mayor problems. For one side, our logistic infrastructure will never be ready for the number of delivery-vehicles required to fulfill such demand. From the other, last-mile delivery entails the ≈53% of the transport costs, a figure that most of the SME cannot assume. Hence, an oligopolistic horizon of large companies like Amazon will come unless smart solutions will avoid it. Nimber is a decentralized delivery-company that is disrupting logistics in Norway. Our vision is to become the global leaders in the last-mile delivery sector by providing the market with a sustainable, efficient, CO2 minimal and convenient alternative to last-mile delivery for SME and individuals. In this regard,Nimber platform presently matches persons needing items delivered with the most optimal delivery solution: people going that way anyway. Thus, we operate for peer-to-peer deliveries (P2P). With SWIFTLY, we seek to hybridize our peer-to-peer model into the business-to-customer (B2C) or business-to-business (B2B) sectors. For such aim, we will offer two novel tools: a bundling algorithm which optimizes loads and deliveries per route to increase the profitability of the professional bringers' services and a pricing algorithm to offer the fairest pricing for both parties (bringer and sender) and speed up the time to close a deal. With this approach we solve the problems of rapidly-growing e-commerce by optimizing existing commuter pathways to deliver goods. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsmicroeconomicssocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommercee-commerce Programme(s) H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs Main Programme H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies Topic(s) EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 - SME instrument Call for proposal H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 See other projects for this call Sub call H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1 Funding Scheme SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1 Coordinator NIMBER AS Net EU contribution € 50 000,00 Address WERGELANDSVEIEN 1 0167 Oslo Norway See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region Norge Oslo og Viken Oslo Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 71 429,00
