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E-Commerce
How Dispatch Management Software Helps Businesses Manage Peak Shipping Seasons like Ramadan
Know how dispatch management software helps to manage peak shipping season demand fluctuations and challenges like Ramadan and Raya. Read More!
Delivery Experience
Cannabis Delivery Business: How to Enable Same-Day Delivery
Key Takeaways The pandemic has altered the face of businesses and changed consumer behavior beyond recognition all over the world. It has razed some industries to the ground and brought immense growth to others. But, what it has done for the cannabis industry in the US is truly incredible. Cannabis dispensaries and delivery has hit […]
Supply Chain Optimization
Building Supply Chain Resilience in Uncertain Times
Authors: Gaurav Shetty and Vignesh J Key Takeaways Supply chain disruptions are no longer rare, black-swan anomalies. From the Suez Canal blockage that halted $9.6 billion in daily trade to the COVID-19 pandemic that exposed systemic vulnerabilities across every industry, the past several years have proven one thing: linear, siloed supply chains cannot withstand the […]
Retail & CPG
How to Optimize Permanent Journey Planning (PJP) in FMCG and Retail Supply Chains
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
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 […]
Tech and Product
Liberalization of Geospatial Data and Mapping Policies Could Unlock New Doors for India’s Logistics Tech Industry
Key Takeaways India’s Ministry of Science and Technology has announced changes to the country’s mapping and geospatial data laws, liberalizing regulations on geospatial information, making it freely available for innovation and IT companies across the country. New guidelines have been issued for acquiring and producing geospatial data and geospatial data services, including maps. Indian citizens, […]
Delivery Experience
Things Are Looking Up – The Future of E-Grocery
There are few things destined for growth and e-grocery is one of them. This is owed to the disruption caused by the pandemic. It has brought about an incredible change in consumer behaviour and finally broken one of the most difficult shopping patterns—grocery shopping. Although online shopping has cast a shadow on most retail stores, […]
Grocery
Will dark stores be the dark horse in this age of ever-increasing demand
Key Takeaways “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.” ? Mary Shelly Chaos. That was the state of supply chains in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. While the situation is undoubtedly better now, one has to accept that the chaos created by the […]
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