As the end of the year approaches, the different sectors of the economy study the trends that will mark their own evolution in the next 12 months, with the aim of preparing their businesses for changing environments that require constant innovation to overcome challenges.
Along these lines, InPost has compiled what it considers to be the 4 most relevant trends for the logistics sector in 2025. Significant changes that, sometimes, come from afar, but that mark the future of a sector that represents almost 3% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Spain, according to data from the Transport and Logistics Observatory. If the weight of the transport sector is added, the figure is around 4.5% of GDP.
The logistics sector in 2025
In order to contribute to the advancement and improvement of the sector, the company shares the logistics trends for it:
- The cloud as an ecosystem. Cloud Computing has become the epicenter of digital development in any sector. The progressive migration of operations on local devices to integrate all business operations in Cloud environments has been consolidated as a key step for a digital evolution that must respond to challenges such as remote work environments, the increasing presence of sensors that They collect data that can be analyzed and used for the business, or the need for reinforced cybersecurity to face the sophisticated threats that put companies and their customers and users at risk. In this sense, the logistics sector, when working with a large number of delivery vehicles, packages that must be geolocated, employees of different ranks within the company, suppliers, partners and customers, must necessarily adopt Cloud environments to centralize its operational and facilitate an activity that requires efficiency, speed of response and versatility. This allows companies to respond to service needs in real time and without having to resize or modify their hardware capabilities, offering greater efficiency and security.
InPost, the non-home delivery company, has compiled four trends in the logistics sector for 2025, a year that will be crucial for the integration of artificial intelligence and progress towards an increasingly sustainable and efficient model
- Artificial Intelligence in logistics. Artificial intelligence (AI) is already all-encompassing, and the logistics sector can take advantage of this disruptive technology to empower itself and offer better service to its customers. InPost has detected, based on its own use case, that AI can help to automatically design more efficient delivery routes, which represents considerable cost savings and translates, in parallel, into better service, by reducing the number of necessary journeys and optimize the available resources. In addition, AI has the potential to improve the integration processes of different platforms, information sources and technologies within the framework of a strategy based on cloud ecosystems, which will allow logistics companies to advance their digital transformation through of the combination of leading technologies such as Cloud and AI
- The arrival of digital twins. Digital twins are a trend in the world of technology that is making its way into companies due to their ability to launch new applications and design the businesses of the future. A digital twin is a digitized replica of a reality present in the physical world. In the case of a company, its digital twin would be the replication of all the components of that company in an interactive virtual recreation. In this way, companies can make changes, adjustments, tests and evaluations in the digital replica to check how they would influence their operations and business if it were actually carried out. This not only represents considerable cost savings, but also reduces the probability of making errors and allows testing and progress to be taken even further without paralyzing or hindering the company’s daily operations, which will not be affected by the work carried out in this area. kind of testing environment. However, a digital twin is not only used for testing, but also allows you to have an overview of the company in a virtual environment, so that its operations can be followed in real time and even automate adjustments, alerts and complete traceability of operations. the operations. In logistics, for example, a digital twin would bring the entire company’s operations in real time to a virtual environment, showing where each package is located or what the status of each delivery vehicle is, so that the business can be better controlled. and the door opens to the detection of failures or incidents for a better and faster solution
- The challenge of the last mile. The logistics sector continues to look for innovative formulas that allow us to overcome the challenges of the so-called last mile, which is the last phase in the parcel delivery process. In this sense, InPost’s NON-home delivery model solves many of these challenges, since its hybrid network of Punto Pack and Lockers allows for more efficient management of delivery to the end user, also contributing to collaborating with the local commerce for their businesses, while continuing to support online commerce. Despite this, companies in the logistics sector, led by InPost itself, continue working to make these last mile delivery and delivery procedures even more efficient, and also more sustainable. The coming years will be key to further improve a critical phase for logistics and transportation, thanks to the combination of different approaches and technologies
