A joined-up delivery process can anticipate and mitigate
delays, says nShift
LONDON, April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Global instability
will continue to cause supply-chain disruption for the foreseeable
future, predicts an influential new report from Gartner®, a company
that delivers actionable, objective insight to executives and their
teams. At the same time, businesses face pressure to become
more sustainable while taking advantage of growth
opportunities.
nShift, the global leader in parcel delivery and
transport management software, argues that retailers, manufacturers
and logistics providers can overcome these challenges by investing
in technology that generates joined-up data about shipments across
the supply chain. nShift has released a list of three
strategies to help businesses thrive in today's global
environment:
- Gain greater visibility across the supply
chain – knowledge is power. The greater a
business's awareness of potential delays or disruption, the better
teams can adjust their processes to mitigate problems
- Treat deliveries across the supply chain as an integrated
process – if companies treat supply-chain shipments,
last-mile deliveries, order-tracking and returns as separate
processes, operated by individual point solutions, they risk
creating a disjointed delivery journey. This increases the
risk of downtime
- Measure carbon emissions – if businesses have
real data on their current carbon emissions they can craft
meaningful reduction strategies. They can keep on measuring
emissions to test the effect of such strategies and manage
increasingly stringent reporting requirements
Fredrik Lindhagen, Product
Director, TMS, at nShift said, "International supply chains
continue to be vulnerable to ongoing disruption.
Transportation visibility – understanding where products or
supplies are at any given moment – is crucial.
"Traditional transport management systems attempt to calculate
efficiencies in the supply chain using pre-defined shipping
rules. But increasingly, logistics operations need more than
that. A transport management system based around deep carrier
connectivity can cast light on what is happening at each stage of
the logistics management process, while enabling teams to change
things in response to unforeseen events."
nShift's TMS solution provides increased visibility and control
over the supply chain. It is easy to implement, flexible, and
scalable. It encourages collaboration across the supply chain and
distributes decision making. nShift Emissions Tracker enables
retailers to calculate carbon emissions at shipment level, helping
companies manage complex reporting requirements, including the
forthcoming Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
(CSRD).
Gartner, a company delivering actionable, objective insight to
executives and their teams has named nShift as a Notable Vendor in
its report "Europe Context: 'Magic Quadrant™ for
Transportation Management Systems (TMS)'"
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Quadrant report.
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Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems
Gartner, Europe Context: 'Magic Quadrant for Transportation
Management Systems', By Oscar Sanchez
Duran, Brock Johns,
27 March 2024.
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About nShift
nShift is the global leading provider of cloud delivery
management solutions enabling frictionless shipment and return of
almost one billion shipments across 190 countries annually.
nShift's software is used globally by e-commerce, retail,
manufacturing and 3PL shippers. The company is headquartered in
London and Oslo. It has over 500 employees across offices
in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, United
Kingdom, Poland,
the Netherlands, Belgium, and Romania.
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