The Logistics Marketplace, a platform designed to strengthen health and humanitarian supply chains in Africa and underserved markets, has officially launched.
Conceived by Supply Chain Private Sector Engagement Advisor at The Global Fund Scott Dubin, and powered by Logixity, the Logistics Marketplace brings governments, global health partners, humanitarian response organizations, international and UN organizations, manufacturers and distributors – to find, assess, and engage logistics providers.
According to its founder Scott Dubin,“In too many low- and middle-income countries, it’s not a lack of infrastructure that slows the movement of life-saving health and humanitarian products, it’s the difficulty of finding the right logistics partners. The Logistics Marketplace is designed to solve that problem. By giving buyers real-time visibility into the range of providers operating in a country, and giving providers a platform to showcase their capabilities, we’re reducing friction, increasing competition, and ultimately helping supply chains run smarter and faster.”
The SaaS platform aims to address long-standing inefficiencies in health and humanitarian supply chains by connecting buyers and logistics providers, streamlining procurement processes, and bringing transparency to fragmented logistics markets.
The platform will help buyers to discover logistics providers, post logistics tenders, and manage logistics sourcing in one place. Eligible organizations: governments, global health partners, humanitarian response organizations, manufacturers, wholesalers & distributors, and others.
For providers, the platform helps them to showcase their services, respond to tenders, and grow your business.
Logistics Marketplace helps one stand out and compete, especially in health and humanitarian supply chains. Eligible organizations: transporters (road, air, rail, water), warehouse providers, cold chain specialists, and others offering specialized logistics services.
The platform is also building a section for hybrid users to seek, manage, and offer logistics services. Organizations can submit tenders and bid on them, partner with providers, or promote your own services. Eligible organizations: freight forwarders, 3PL and 4PL providers, and technical assistance providers.
Logistics Marketplace integrates key functionalities such as provider discovery, streamlined logistics procurement, and a provider marketplace offering providers transparent access to open tenders.
Lantos Pin, Health Supply Chain Expert said: “The Logistics Marketplace is exactly the kind of solution health supply chains have needed for years, saving time and money to identify and engage providers. The platform introduces a truly logistics-native, globally accessible solution that simply hasn’t existed before. It uniquely combines the strengths of commercial SaaS with the mission of enabling smarter, faster, and more transparent logistics in health supply networks – a much-needed step to solving these systemic challenges at scale.”
As health and humanitarian systems face mounting demands to do more, the Logistics Marketplace emerges both as a tool and a critical infrastructure for the future of health and humanitarian product delivery. Buyers, providers, and hybrid users can immediately access the platform via www.logisticsmarketplace.
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