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Category: Fleet Optimization
E-Commerce
Last Mile Carrier Tracking and Why it matters for Businesses in 2020?
Mar 25, 2020
“Cracking visibility problems depend on Last Mile Carrier Tracking.” Real-time visibility plays an active role in sustaining the excitement of buying a product until the product reaches you. Imagine that Michael has placed an order for a rugby kit. The E-commerce website promised that his order would be delivered within three days. He waits for […]
CEP and 3PL
When will my package arrive: The cost of missed deliveries
Jul 31, 2019
Key Takeaways It’s 4.35 by the time I come back. I see a note on my doorstep. No! Not that. Anything but that. But alas! It is the infamous ‘Sorry; we missed you’ note. The best-case scenario for me from here is that my parcel is with my neighbour, and hopefully, they are in their […]
Fleet Optimization
The Journey of the Mango: How India’s favorite fruit reaches your plate
Jul 4, 2019
Key Takeaways 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 […]
E-Commerce
Hitting The Road Running: Can An App Improve The Life Of The Delivery Executives?
Jun 10, 2019
Key Takeaways 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 […]
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 […]
CEP and 3PL
The trouble in paradise for 3PL and their fleet
Mar 24, 2019
Key Takeaways What happens when your best friend turns into your biggest foe? Shock, Anguish, and Sadness. Just a few of the images that come to the mind. That’s the situation that the 3PL companies are dealing with right now. Trucks, Ships, and Boxes; their most intimate homies have rebelled against them. Believe it or not, managing […]
Fleet Optimization
What Are Consumer Companies Doing In Canada To Optimise Logistics And Why?
Aug 27, 2018
Key Takeaways Logistics Optimization in Canada: Recently, 78 Canadian companies, 26 business associations and 12 Canadian academic institutions came together to form SCALE.AI, and the Government of Canada announced it had selected SCALE. AI as one of five winning industry-led proposals in its Innovation Super clusters Initiative. SCALE stands for Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence, and it’s […]
CEP and 3PL
4 Questions You Need To Answer About Your Supply Chain If You Are In Southeast Asia
Jul 30, 2018
Key Takeaways Southeast Asia represents an economy of over 600 million people and a GDP of 2.4 trillion USD. According to the international research firm Frost & Sullivan, Indonesia’s compound annual growth rate is predicted to be 15.4% till 2020. Lower production costs, massive government spending, increasing disposable income of a growing middle class, along […]
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