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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. […]
Delivery Experience
Top 5 Holiday Season Supply Chain Trends to Watch Out in 2020
Oct 23, 2020
Key Takeaways 2020 has been a tough pill to swallow in more ways than one, but it’s officially the holiday season now. Finally, it is that time of the year to soak in some holiday cheer and have a good time with family and friends. With festivities like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year lined […]
Tech and Product
How we built a zero-waste product roadmap in a Logistics SaaS Company
Oct 22, 2020
Key Takeaways If you are a Product Manager (PM), it is highly likely that you dread the month before a new quarter begins. You, my friend, have to decide what your tech team will spend 25% of their year building. Your customer success team wants you to build that long-pending feature request raised by the […]
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Reopening B2B Distribution and Fulfillment Operations in Southeast Asia: Locus-DHL Webinar Takeaways
Oct 20, 2020
Key Takeaways COVID-19 has been a disastrous black swan event in the history of mankind — A global crisis that impacted countries, industries, travel, trade, commerce, day-to-day lives, and what not! Like many other parts of the world, Southeast Asia was hit hard by the pandemic, as businesses came to a standstill across ASEAN countries. […]
Tech and Product
Turbocharge your front end using WebAssembly
Oct 15, 2020
Authors: Vaibhav Aparimit & Arun Nalla Key Takeaways JavaScript has evolved as the lingua franca for front end engineering. Having just one language for the front end is pretty dope as you develop once and run your code on any browser. Of course, you still need to test your web app on different browsers, but […]
Delivery Experience
Meal-Kit Delivery Services – The New-age food trend and the logistics behind it
Oct 6, 2020
Key Takeaways In today’s fast-paced world, people love to cook but can’t stand the prep and cleanup. They want to eat inventive meals that are home-cooked. They do not have the time to shop and run to grocery stores owing to the COVID-19 situation, but still want nutritious meals. Meal kit delivery services has given […]
E-Commerce
Ecommerce Fulfillment Strategy: How to Prepare E-commerce Logistics for Peak Season
Oct 5, 2020
Key Takeaways An ecommerce fulfillment strategy is the operating plan that connects inventory, warehousing, order processing, delivery execution, customer communication, and returns to meet delivery promises profitably. During peak season, that strategy must extend into the last mile: route optimization, dispatch automation, fleet capacity planning, real-time ETA management, exception handling, and reverse logistics. Peak season […]
Last Mile Delivery Optimization
The Ultimate Guide to BOPIS: Buy Online, Pick Up In Store
Oct 1, 2020
Key Takeaways There are two big pieces of news in the US to start with! First, one from Amazon was doing rounds last month. Amazon started offering customers $10 to pick up a purchase rather than delivering it to their doorstep. There were two reasons behind it. One for cutting home delivery costs and another […]
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