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Global instability continues to create supply-chain disruption

London (ots/PRNewswire) - A joined-up delivery process can anticipate and
mitigate delays, says nShift

Global instability will continue to cause supply-chain disruption for the
foreseeable future, predicts an influential new report (https://nshift.com/gartn
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4a2dd) 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:

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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