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GoTo Merger – A Super App, Woke Consumers, and A Transforming SEA Economy
2019. That was the year when I first experienced the true power of wielding an app where I could hail a cab, order food or simply get parcels delivered anywhere in the city, all from a single interface. Although India had advanced reasonably well in the ride-hailing, food and b2c deliveries, and fintech industries individually […]
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Reduction of carbon emissions by minimizing fuel-miles
Authors: Arpita Mishra and Zubin Pradhan Key Takeaways Supply chain enterprises have the prime social responsibility of adopting sustainability measures and controlling the negative impact of logistics on the environment. In terms of global transport emissions, the road sector is by far the largest emitter, with passenger and freight transport contributing nearly three-quarters of the […]
Tech and Product
How we wrote a pipeline abstraction module with one line of code
Key Takeaways A declarative implementation of the pipeline design pattern for maintaining rapidly evolving and complex data science workflows. Motivation: At the core of all the products at Locus lie complex mathematical models and large workflows which are expected to perform at scale. None more so than our brand new strategic supply chain planning platform, […]
Supply Chain Optimization
Building Supply Chain Resilience in Uncertain Times
Authors: Gaurav Shetty and Vignesh J Key Takeaways Supply chain disruptions are no longer rare, black-swan anomalies. From the Suez Canal blockage that halted $9.6 billion in daily trade to the COVID-19 pandemic that exposed systemic vulnerabilities across every industry, the past several years have proven one thing: linear, siloed supply chains cannot withstand the […]
Tech and Product
Liberalization of Geospatial Data and Mapping Policies Could Unlock New Doors for India’s Logistics Tech Industry
Key Takeaways India’s Ministry of Science and Technology has announced changes to the country’s mapping and geospatial data laws, liberalizing regulations on geospatial information, making it freely available for innovation and IT companies across the country. New guidelines have been issued for acquiring and producing geospatial data and geospatial data services, including maps. Indian citizens, […]
Tech and Product
What’s new @ Locus – New Releases: 200+ orders on App, Custom Reports and more…
Key Takeaways With most of the year gone past with battling the pandemic, each of you has shown commendable business resilience. We are proud to have partnered with you to bring about change and innovation which is the need of the hour. As an extension to providing businesses support, here are the latest releases from […]
Tech and Product
How we built a zero-waste product roadmap in a Logistics SaaS Company
Key Takeaways If you are a Product Manager (PM), it is highly likely that you dread the month before a new quarter begins. You, my friend, have to decide what your tech team will spend 25% of their year building. Your customer success team wants you to build that long-pending feature request raised by the […]
Tech and Product
Turbocharge your front end using WebAssembly
Authors: Vaibhav Aparimit & Arun Nalla Key Takeaways JavaScript has evolved as the lingua franca for front end engineering. Having just one language for the front end is pretty dope as you develop once and run your code on any browser. Of course, you still need to test your web app on different browsers, but […]
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