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Category: Route Optimization
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 […]
Route Optimization
How The World’s Best Route Optimization Engine Works
Jan 29, 2018
Key Takeaways While other traditional ‘track & trace’ solutions tell you ‘where your truck is’, Locus’ route optimization engine goes a step further to answer ‘where your truck should be!’ Consider the following scenario: 10 Shipments, 10 drop-off locations. 1 rider to complete the job in a day. Sounds simple enough problem to solve, isn’t […]
Last Mile Delivery Optimization
Followed by Randomness
Nov 2, 2017
Key Takeaways Rolling dice has been a divine act since ancient times. For Pre-Christians who lived along the MediterraneanSea, the die was the law of the land. Since then human beings have not shied away from exploiting its power in all spheres of life, be it for recreation, gambling, moving economy, predicting weather, and even […]
Blog
Bringing Banking to the Customer’s Doorstep with ‘Locus for BFSI’
Jul 18, 2017
Key Takeaways Expectations are a moving target, thereby creating the need for institutions to regularly track and understand how they are Performing Against Customer Expectations (PACE). The PACE index for the banking sector does this on an annual basis, in a global study spanning 8,000 customers and 500 small businesses. The 2016 survey revealed that Indian banks were near the bottom of […]
Fleet Optimization
Skill Based Routing: The Sorting Hat of Intelligent Logistics
Jun 20, 2017
Key Takeaways In our previous post, we had introduced the concept of serviceability, its significance and implication for the future of logistics. It would not be telling to say that we have only scratched the surface. Leaving it at that will be like belittling the layers that lie beneath. Let’s dig deeper… Serviceability has an unpredictable […]
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