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water across the globe, ocean freight Meanwhile, he expects the
bottlenecks due to low inventory levels issues of capacity availability, high
and high consumer demand, workers turnaround times, high freight rates,
abandoning supply-chain-related jobs diversification of sourcing strategy and
in record numbers, exploring a shift the acceleration of digitisation and
to the “just in case” model as the automation to continue in 2022 as well.
pandemic exposed flaws in “just in According to Nilesh Ghule, co-
time” inventory systems and scrutiny founder and CEO, TruckBhejo,
from governments, investors, and efficiency and speed are becoming
customers on sustainability disclosure critical success factors for the
and reporting requirements for logistics industry.
businesses. “Especially in the last mile, express
Citing that 2022 will not be delivery is increasingly becoming
exceptionally different from 2021 for Large language models important wherein we are already
global supply chain, logistics consultant such as GPT-3 will eyeing for the drone deliveries to kick in.
and founder of Aviral Consulting Technology has redefined the pace and
Vikash Khatri wrote in his recent become much more in 2022, the sector is poised to find a
LinkedIn article that “Darvin theory of mainstream, and bigger new top gear,” he said.
“Survival of Fittest”, which suggested models will become An interesting fall out of the
that “organisms best adjusted to available for use. pandemic is the shift in buying
their environment are successful in Shantanu S. Bhattacharyya behaviour of the consumers.
surviving”, holds true for supply chain Locus “Multiple product categories are
industry as well.” added on the e-commerce platforms
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