AUTHOR: Nishith Rastogi, Founder & CEO, Locus
News
Our First Steps to Perpetuity
Oct 7, 2025
A Short Story About Symbols There is a small service road in Nagasandra, on the outskirts of Bengaluru, where Locus took its first steps, working out of a rented apartment. In those first months, there was just a quiet stretch of road, a rented flat, and a handful of people learning how to make hard […]
Logistics Software
Legacy Out, Intelligence In: The Great Realignment of Supply Chain Tech
May 23, 2025
B2B logistics is being rebuilt for speed, scale, and AI. Discover why consultants and CXOs are ditching legacy systems for intelligent, modular platforms.
General
Checkout on the Spot! Riding Retail’s Fast Track in the Mobile Era
Dec 13, 2024
Key Takeaways Introduction: The New Rules of Retail Experience Walk into any store today, and what do you see? Shoppers with smartphones glued to their hands, effortlessly blending the digital and physical worlds. They’re checking reviews, comparing prices, sharing photos with friends, all in real-time, right in the middle of the aisle. Mobile technology isn’t […]
Supply Chain Optimization
From the CEO’s Desk: Moving Beyond The New Normal to New Opportunities
Jun 29, 2022
Locus CEO, Nishith Rastogi met leaders and experts during Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo and shared his insights on logistics industry opportunities.
Tech and Product
Logistics is the New Software
Jun 2, 2021
Key Takeaways Every consumer company WILL be a logistics company. Logistics is the new software. Yes! Let that sink in. The ‘legacy software’ way of running supply chain and logistics is no longer viable for the present ‘on-demand’ world. It needs a new ‘operating system’ to run on. Building such a ‘system’ requires ground-up innovation […]
Grocery
Will dark stores be the dark horse in this age of ever-increasing demand
Feb 12, 2021
Key Takeaways “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.” ― Mary Shelly Chaos. That was the state of supply chains in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. While the situation is undoubtedly better now, one has to accept that the chaos created by the […]
Blog
Only The Paranoid Survive
May 13, 2019
Key Takeaways The message from Andrew Grove, founder of Intel, has been my watchword for Locus. Locus was never meant to be a good company, not even a great one. Locus was intended to be perfect, which means that in this drive for perfection, we often forget to rejoice our achievements. Today as we secure […]
Last Mile Delivery Optimization
Locus’ 60-second Guide to Omnichannel Retail
Dec 17, 2018
Key Takeaways ‘Omnichannel’ is the latest buzzword in the FMCG and Retail industry. Every retailer now wants different channels to deliver its goods, and all of a sudden, selling simply through the traditional brick and mortar shops is not good enough. But what is omnichannel and why do companies even need it Omnichannel retailing is […]
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