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Category: Route Optimization
Retail & CPG
How to Optimize Permanent Journey Planning (PJP) in FMCG and Retail Supply Chains
Mar 10, 2021
Key Takeaways Revenue is driven by a number of different factors in retail and FMCG markets — constantly evolving customer expectations, rising market competition, omnichannel trends, location demographics, and the effectiveness of supply chain elements, especially timely and effective distribution of goods to retail outlets from where the end customer buys the products. Typically, this […]
Last Mile Delivery Optimization
How Delivery Logistics Software Helps Businesses Winter-Proof Their Logistics Operations
Mar 9, 2021
Key Takeaways Few of the severe and defining issues that have cropped up with global warming are the unprecedented and inevitable climate events like the one in Texas. It has become impossible to predict events such as winter storms, hurricanes, polar vortices and wildfires. The need of the hour is efficient contingency plans. Trucking companies […]
Last Mile Delivery Optimization
How Customer Expectations are Redefining B2B Logistics Businesses in 2021
Jan 19, 2021
Key Takeaways The E-Commerce boom has influenced consumer behaviour like never before. Economics taught us that it was the price that drove demand. Now, we are learning how convenience drives demand even more. 2020 was a disruptive year in more ways than one, but remarkably disruptive in how it changed the way people buy and […]
Delivery Experience
A Sneak Peek into Alibaba’s Logistics Prep Ahead of Single’s Day 2020
Oct 28, 2020
Key Takeaways Single’s Day, Guanggun Jie, or Bare Sticks Holiday, celebrated on November 11 every year, is one of the biggest commercial holidays across the world. Originally, Single’s Day was started in 1993 by university students at Nanjing University in China as a celebration of singlehood, marked by purchasing gifts and going out for parties. […]
Healthcare / Pharmaceutical
How Delivery Optimization Software can Help biopharmaceutical cold-chain logistics?
Aug 21, 2020
Key Takeaways Earlier cold chains were confined to a narrow brand of drug products. Today, with the rise of biopharmaceuticals, cold chain logistics is more important than ever. What is a cold chain from a logistics point of view? A temperature-controlled supply chain is called a cold chain. Samples from clinical trials, biologics, vaccines, different […]
Route Optimization
How to choose Route Optimization Software for Small and Mid-Sized Fleet?
Jun 12, 2020
Key Takeaways The dispatch planning process has become quite complicated, with a varied mix of daily customer orders and multiple options for vehicles and routes. This complexity has made delivery companies search for good route optimization software for their small and mid-sized fleets. Route planners and logistics managers attach a lot of significance to route […]
Last Mile Delivery Optimization
COVID-19 : Time to Zone out
May 18, 2020
Key Takeaways Ever since the global community took note of the COVID-19 transforming into a pandemic, enforced social distancing or lockdowns have been a consistent reaction from every Government (barring rare exceptions like Sweden). The severity of the lockdown has varied from recommendations to stay indoors to military enforced mandatory restrictions on any movement deemed […]
CEP and 3PL
Zone-based routing is the need of the hour
May 12, 2020
Key Takeaways Terms like Red, Amber, Green; Red, Orange, Green; phased opening; restrictions; have all become a crucial part of our lives in the last few weeks. With the world slowly opening up amidst the Covid-19 outbreak, supply chain and logistics is going to play a really crucial role in setting up the ‘new normal’. Team […]
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