It is quite evident there is no concrete timeline for when the Covid-19 pandemic will get over. In times like these, the existence of any businesses directly depends on adjusting to the new norms. There is an absolute undeniable requirement to rework operational strategies. Investment in apt digital technologies has become crucial in delivering resilient logistics operations and ensuring prolonged business viability. Here are a few rising practices to take heed as you prepare your post-COVID-19 strategy.

Protect the workforce: Covid-19 has put both the core and extended workforce into a stressful, volatile, and an unfamiliar work environment. The Health and well-being of the workforce should be a top priority for the leaders. They must ensure their physical safety and mental health needs.

Digitalization of Logistics. Businesses open to adopting digital logistics management are best prepared to face the disruptions caused by the pandemic. The key reasons behind, analytics, effective use of resources, smoother logistics operations, etc. Digital platforms offer end to end transparency, which makes the customer truly in charge of managing all of their cross-border logistics activities.

Use Speed to beat the unpredictable. Throughout the pandemic, speed has become a crucial value proposition. For an instance, to meet commitments on time, shippers are taking quick decisions to lock-in rates due to capacity constraints. Digital tools with AI-based instant quoting services are now becoming industry standard.

Streamlining specific tasks using automation is helping shippers and carriers to communicate and interact effectively. Digital technology today has the potential to equip businesses with profitable sustainability.

Insightful reaction. Digital platforms powered by analytics, are providing leaders with enhanced visibility throughout the logistics cycle and helping them tackle Covid-19 swiftly, with assurance, and safety. Businesses should take the help of the analytics & digital platforms to be prepared for probable supply chain disruptions and their counterstrategies.

Focus on the bigger picture. Promptly reacting to disruptions in logistics demands an ecosystem that is flexible enough to adjust in real-time to meet the wavering capacities.

But it is impossible to calibrate the operations to avoid these disruptions without having access to actionable data insights. Digital solutions that offer real-time data of logistics operations emerged as a savior for many amidst the pandemic—and are going to become industry standard post-COVID-19.

Digital innovation is here to stay. Leaders should be the nurturers of an environment that advances digital solutions —and ensure a follow-through at each level. Recognize people in your workforce who can administer the right technologies and facilitate their implementation. In addition, seek out consultants to have an external assessment of your existing tools and propose new ideas to create an impact.

The more the businesses tap into new ways to deal with the reasons of abrasion, the more prepared they become for unseen disruptions ahead.

Learn and evolve. This crisis may be a suitable occasion for businesses to uncover vulnerabilities in their supply chain which were unknown earlier and ensure a future which is stronger than before. Leaders need to jump on this once-in-a-generation chance to identify problem areas of such logistics operations failure, the reasons behind, and how to fix them.