The logistics industry is one of the most utilized industry in the world, it involves a plethora of platforms and facilities that deal mostly with moving items and services of values from one place to another. This can be a wide range of products/services including simple platforms like food ordering, clothes delivery to large companies like machinery and international shipping firms.

The complexities involved in the logistic industry is unwittingly overwhelming as many different facets of the industry are intertwined in one way or the other with each other and as such, care needs to be taken to curb wastage of resources, of which are somewhat inexcusable in moving things from one place to another.
The issue of wastage of resources in the logistics industry has been argued to be one of the factors leading to the massive decline in some areas of the industry and also what constitutes the majority of price hike as seen in goods and services. The delivery ecosystem inclusive of last-mile logistics has indeed experience a large decline due to the activities of middlemen.

Middlemen, who indeed cause a massive increase in transaction costs of any industry or economy, are also the major cause of wastage in the logistics industry, as they constitute the large part of the quota of those who do so little and earn so much in any business transaction, hence making it difficult for other parties involved to enjoy fully, the dividends of each transaction.

One would agree with me, when i assert that there needs to be an overhauling system introduced into the logistics industry that will do away with the middlemen and introduce to the ecosystem, a safe, trust-less and transparent platform, which is scalable and allow a wide range of global interactions and transactions to take place among people from several places, utilizing a system in which no one person has full control over it, making it secure and beneficial to all and sundry.

Be that as it may, the only architecture that can afford us with such ecosystem would require an innovative platform that would be a next-generation logistics platform incorporating all and sundry, leading to the revolution of the logistics industry. This system would also require blockchain technology to create an effectively decentralized system, allowing everyone a fair share in the game of products and service delivery, not withstanding the location of any of the parties, which of course will be guided by a set of arbitrary rule that binds every of the parties in each transaction.

Introducing Serve Platform

Serve is a platform that seeks to create a decentralized logistics platform for a new globalized logistics industry, doing away with the several challenges that affects the rapid growth and development of the last mile logistics industry and introducing a new stabilized and transparent economy, in which transactions are cheaper, faster and more secure, including the fact that users, Enterprises and Platforms, will have the opportunity to maintain a secure and private transaction sphere.

Serve is striving to use blockchain technology and its exclusive benefits and unique features to change the paradigm of the last mile logistics industry by building a platform that brings everything to everyone and everyone to everything. The Mission is geared towards providing an decentralized and open-source platform, where enterprises and providers can utilize to build platforms for their goods and services, and at the same time, enjoy faster and secure transactions, as a result of the removal of middle men. Moreover,with Serve Website users can go ahead to enjoy better services at cheaper costs, in an ecosystem where trust is ensured by smart contracts staked by all parties, enabling a unique and innovative method of arbitration.

Serve team believes that the logistics industry is a marketplace that should not only be utilized in localized microcosms, but should be a global ecosystem for interactions, whereby all kinds of transactions should be done on the ecosystem, as long as it deals with products and services delivery. Companies involved in transportation, delivery, e-commerce and couriers are major enterprises that should adopt serve ecosystem as a Standard platform for operation.

Keiretsu – Idea Interconnectivity

Serve ideology was coined from the Japanese principle Keiretsu, which symbolizes the ability of divergent attributes to operate in an interconnected manner providing each with a collective advantage from the strength of each party combined.

The Serve Keiretsu as described from the Serve Whitepaper are

traditionally disconnected vertical industries, working together to create an interconnected community with its core being the Serve platform, thereby eliminating the activities of middlemen and empowering users, enterprises and providers to operate and interact with each other in a unique and open environment.

Serve Protocol

The uniqueness of Serve Platform is that it contains a protocol that is exceptionally tailored to suit into all facets of the logistics industry. Serve protocol is an all round solution to all the challenges accruing to the last mile logistics industry. The features of Serve protocol includes but are not limited to:

Smart Contract:

Serve protocol involves a special smart contract creation interface that will be utilized to create specific arrangement contracts between users, and enterprises, and between enterprises and providers. A trust-less smart contract which will enable quick arbitration with the functionality that allows all parties to stake tokens before any transaction is initiated, making them eager to settle all disputes quickly and also increase their reputations.

APIs and SDKs:

Serve team is building a protocol with several APIs and SDKs to enable scalability, a means whereby several platforms that share the ideology of Serve to build their platforms upon the Serve Blockchain and/or utilize Serve APIs to run their platforms.

Open Source:

The Serve protocol is open-source, which creates room for more innovative improvements to the platform on the long run, allowing Serve the opportunity to change with the changing tides of technology.

Serve Platform:

Serve platform is a decentralized platform that affords flexibility and adaptability of blockchain technology to the logistics industry, its a platform where users, Enterprise and providers around the world can interact directly with one another.
The Architecture is Ethereum-based for now, this is because ethereum supports decentralized platforms integrations and allows for fast transactions, however as an open-source platform, Serve team has made available options to move to other blockchain solutions or even create their if need be.
Moreover, Serve is striving to provide an enterprise-level solution which is built on software-as-a-service model, allowing developers of other services and platforms to use software developed by Serve team to incorporate special benefits into their platforms and ensure decentralization.

Use Cases:

There are a plethora of use cases for the Serve Platform, some of which includes:
• E-commerce industry
• Last-mile industry
• Transportation of goods and services
• Importation/exportation between countries
• Advertising
• Products purchases and deliveries
• Arbitration of Trades and disputes.

For More Information and Resources:

Serve Website
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Serve Whitepaper
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Serve GitHub
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