Category: Route Optimization

Implementing incentive-based pay for delivery executives: Performance over Pressure

Last Mile Delivery Optimization

Implementing incentive-based pay for delivery executives: Performance over Pressure

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Team Locus

Sep 16, 2019

Come hell or high water, your customer’s delivery always makes its way to the comfort of their home with the help of what are commonly known as delivery executives. These saviors work round the clock, and always turn up on your customer’s doorsteps with sunken eyes and broken smiles, clearly trying to deliver value with […]

Locus FMGC Future 2025

E-Commerce

What’s in store for FMCG in 2025? We just found out from experts

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Shweta Sarma

Sep 10, 2019

Future of FMCG Supply Chain: The global consumer goods industry is currently going through a phase of massive transformation. Companies now need to break traditions and implement solid new-age strategies in producing, selling and distributing goods. To discuss the changing dynamics of the FMCG industry and the trends that are shaping the future of consumer […]

E-commerce disrupting the CPG supply chain

Route Optimization

E-commerce disrupting the CPG landscape

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Team Locus

Aug 27, 2019

Want to know how CPG eCommerce distributors can thrive in the changing scenario? Distributors have been an indispensable part of the CPG supply chain. CPG players have relied on their traditional partners to handle the sales, shipping, and servicing of the products to retailers in a specific geographic area or a particular class of business. […]

How to tackle last mile delivery challenges in North America

E-Commerce

How to tackle last-mile delivery problems in North America using technology

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Team Locus

Jul 22, 2019

Logistics solutions to catapult business profits Running a marathon may be about the long haul, but that last stretch is what makes all the difference. Imagine your customer stuck in the office, and they check their phone in the 53 seconds timed break that they get. And see one missed call from an unknown number. […]

Journey of the Mango to Your Plate - Last Mile Delivery Optimization

Fleet Optimization

The Journey of the Mango: How India’s favorite fruit reaches your plate

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Team Locus

Jul 4, 2019

What’s a summer without mangoes. As we dig into this delightful, golden fruit of joy, our brows relaxed, our lips parted in a smile, we often tend to forget how this king of fruits reaches us. From a branch in a mango orchard to the plate on our table, the journey of a mango delivery […]

Route Optimization App for Delivery Executives Performance

E-Commerce

Hitting The Road Running: Can An App Improve The Life Of The Delivery Executives?

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Team Locus

Jun 10, 2019

Liam works for a major e-commerce firm in Chicago and delivers about 30-35 orders per day. The number goes up to 70 during peak seasons and festivals. However, in most cases for delivering 35 packages, Liam has to make over 50 trips to the given locations. Experts are of the opinion that for every 100 […]

Route Optimization

Route Constraints: Locus Going the Extra Mile for Customers with Autoscaling

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Team Locus

May 20, 2019

Graceful Scaling of Queue Workers: Locus uses Amazon Autoscaling to build a route optimization platform that can scale on-demand and helps in adapting to new last-mile challenges. Locus Route Planner Behind Scenes: One of the most utilized products of Locus’ best route planning software (Dispatcher), is used to solve the constrained vehicle routing problem. The constrained […]

Logistics Cost Optimization through Supply Chain Optimization

E-Commerce

Logistics Cost Optimization: How can technology curb it?

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Team Locus

May 17, 2019

Why are logistics costs so high in Southeast Asia? The US spends 3.5% of its GDP on defence. India spends about 2.7% of its GDP on education. A substantial amount of money on sectors that directly affect the well being of society. Now imagine a country spending 24% of its GDP on logistics! Yup, Indonesia does that. Not only […]