The Logistics Marketplace, a first-of-its-kind global good, designed to strengthen health and humanitarian supply chains in Africa and underserved markets, has officially launched.
This innovative digital platform centralizes the discovery of logistics providers and streamlines the procurement of logistics services, making it easier for key stakeholders – governments, global health partners, humanitarian response organizations, international and UN organizations, manufacturers and distributors – to find, assess, and engage logistics providers.
Conceived by public health supply chain expert and global good advocate Scott Dubin, and powered by Logixity, the Logistics Marketplace addresses long-standing inefficiencies in health and humanitarian supply chains rooted in limited provider identification, service offerings, access, and slow procurement workflows. Logistics Marketplace was created to address these inefficiencies.
Through an openly accessible Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, this global good connects buyers and logistics providers, streamlines procurement processes, and brings transparency to fragmented logistics markets.
By centralizing provider discovery, engagement and tendering within a single, secure interface – at no cost to eligible organizations, the platform contributes to strengthening health and humanitarian supply chains and empowers governments, global health partners, humanitarian response organizations, and others in their activities to improve access to quality logistics services.
Scott Dubin, Supply Chain Private Sector Engagement Advisor at The Global Fund said: “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.”
Designed to evolve as supply chain needs grow, the platform serves the full ecosystem of health supply chain stakeholders including:
- Buyers – Seek and manage outsourced logistics services. Use the platform 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.
- Providers – Seek business opportunities and offer logistics services. Showcase your services in your company profile, respond to tenders, and grow your business.Logistics Marketplace helps you 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.
- Hybrid users (coming soon) – Seek, manage, and offer logistics services. Organizations that play dual roles – sourcing logistics while also delivering services – can use the platform flexibly. 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.
It is complemented by company profiles, user ratings, and secure, mobile-friendly access – all designed to support a faster, more responsive, and higher-performing supply chain for health and humanitarian products. The platform is designed for quick onboarding, with registration completed in just a few minutes.
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.health.
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