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‘In Focus’ with Locus’ Leading Lady – Sreedevi Kaimal
Key Takeaways “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players”, said Shakespeare, truly knowing that you come on the stage, play your part and make an exit when you are done. Sreedevi Kaimal, also known as ‘Sree’, picked up and adapted to this ideology early on in her life. True […]
Tech and Product
Solving Permanent Journey Planning at Locus
Author: Abhishek Goyal; Edited by: Kewal Krishna Key Takeaways PJP aka Permanent Journey Planning – What is it? PJP refers to the day-level route planning mechanism for a fixed duration that a company or a distributor creates to visit several outlets in a specified region via several delivery partners for different products. Outlets can range […]
Sustainability
Sustainability Across the Supply Chain: From Source to Last Mile
Key Takeaways The days of small-scale sustainability are long gone, and the world demands more than mere lip service when it comes to green logistics. Companies all over the world and across all industries must devote themselves to creating and maintaining greener supply chains. We need to come up with models that have an increased […]
Last Mile Delivery Optimization
Impact of Mega Distribution Centers in Logistics
Key Takeaways Black swan events like Covid-19 pandemic have forced the logistics industry to rethink and replan their warehouse strategies. Before this pandemic, companies managed their warehouse operations using the Just In Time (JIT) principle. It has shaken up the supply chain activities from Just-In-Time to Never on time. For a JIT warehouse management to […]
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How Locus Carries out Multi-Country Enagagements
Key Takeaways Organizations are growing and expanding their business operations across the globe. With this evolving nature of business, the supply chain and logistics network needed to support these business operations have become more complex. In order to scale up and manage these globally fragmented logistics networks, many companies have started to use a universal […]
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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 […]
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The Art of Problem-Solving: Shantanu Bhattacharya’s Journey from DNA to Data Science
Key Takeaways There are some people who love what they do and there are others who love their work so much they decide to name their pet project after their daughter. Locus’s Chief Data Scientist, Shantanu Bhattacharyya belongs to the latter. But to call Shantanu a mere data scientist does not do justice to his […]
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