Press Release
June 17, 2026
San Francisco, 17th June 2026: Locus, the world's first agentic Transportation Management System (TMS) provider, has been recognized again as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner® Market Guide for Multicarrier Parcel Management Solutions, 2026 (MCPMS) for its solution, ShipFlex.
The Market Guide examines a market under sustained growth pressure. According to Gartner, global parcel delivery volumes are forecast to rise by over one-third from 2026 through 2031, even as macroeconomic headwinds and fuel and labor cost inflation drive parcel costs higher. Gartner notes that, against this backdrop, shippers "often lack the tools to optimize their transportation spend effectively."
Locus ShipFlex is built to close that gap. It automates multi-carrier deliveries against custom business constraints around cost, speed, and service, letting shippers source additional capacity, assign shipments, and benchmark carrier performance from a single dashboard. As documented in the Market Guide, ShipFlex offers multicarrier integration, rate management, configurable workflows, customer and carrier insights, carrier performance benchmarking, and returns, image-matching and cartonization capabilities.
Locus’ AI capabilities ease carrier onboarding and rule configuration using natural language, and its system can create customer-specific rules supporting over 150 business constraints, alongside multi-leg orchestration across the carrier network.
Locus' order management module evaluates in-house fleet capacity and automatically diverts overflow to ShipFlex for third-party fulfillment, giving enterprises a single, intelligent layer across both captive and outsourced delivery.
"We built ShipFlex around a simple conviction, outsourcing your parcel deliveries shouldn't mean giving up control or visibility. Being recognized again by Gartner tells us that conviction is paying off for the retailers, manufacturers, and CPG brands across the globe. As parcel volumes keep climbing and carrier networks fragment, our focus stays the same, giving shippers an intelligent and carrier-agnostic way to move every parcel at the right cost, speed, and service level," said Nishith Rastogi, Founder and CEO of Locus.
Locus's recognition in the 2026 Gartner® Market Guide for Multicarrier Parcel Management Solutions — together with its inclusion in the Gartner® Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Execution and Logistics Technologies, 2026 — builds on a long-standing track record of recognition by Gartner across multiple research reports and market evaluations. Since 2020, the company has been consistently featured in Market Guides and Hype Cycles spanning last-mile delivery, vehicle routing, supply chain execution, network design, and transportation technologies.
Key Gartner recognitions include:
Source: Gartner, Market Guide for Multicarrier Parcel Management Solutions, Simon Tunstall, Brock Johns, Oscar Sanchez Duran, 15 June 2026.
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Locus is the world's first agentic Transportation Management System, helping enterprises transform logistics from a cost center into a competitive advantage through advanced optimization and intuitive workflow automation. Its order-to-delivery platform spans dispatch planning, delivery orchestration, multi-carrier parcel management (ShipFlex), and track-and-trace, underpinned by a Sense–Decide–Execute–Learn architecture.
Now backed by Ingka Group — built for the real world, backed for the long run — Locus has helped global enterprises across retail, FMCG/CPG, 3PL, manufacturing, e-commerce, and e-grocery optimize over 1.5 billion deliveries across 30+ countries, with 350+ enterprise deployments and 99.99% platform uptime.
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