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Category: Route Optimization
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 […]
Route Optimization
Route Constraints: Locus Going the Extra Mile for Customers with Autoscaling
May 20, 2019
Key Takeaways 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. […]
E-Commerce
Logistics Cost Optimization: How can technology curb it?
May 17, 2019
Key Takeaways 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. […]
Last Mile Delivery Optimization
How Can Route Optimization Reduce Costs And Improve Last-mile Delivery In Southeast Asia
Feb 7, 2019
Key Takeaways Hidayat is en-route to deliver the parcel to the customer he has been assigned. The address says: “Selular shop, Mall Kelapa Gading 3, Jakarta Utara”. Hidayat rechecks the address, looking for a street name or a house number. Nothing. Hidayat is confused. His delivery is going to be late. There are a lot […]
In Focus Webinars
Expanding with accountability: The Supply Chain Story of Bigbasket
Nov 19, 2018
Key Takeaways As a growing venture, we understand the complexities of expansion first hand. More regions to serve, additional clients and unfamiliar avenues often lead to many unforeseen challenges. And even though every business dreams of growing big, only a few are ready for added responsibilities. The supply chain and its development is at the […]
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 […]
Route Optimization
Travelling Salesman Problem Is Not A Problem, It’s A Herculean Task.
Apr 22, 2018
There is one problem that never goes out of fashion even though people in mathematics have tried to optimize solutions for it over decades. Yes, decades! To nobody’s surprise, the Travelling Salesman Problem (read: TSP) remains to be one of the most fascinating and complicated algorithms to innovate upon. The solutions to this problem only have a […]
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