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Dispatch Management
Gist of GST: Is India Inc. Ready?
Key Takeaways Finally, India seems to be taking strides forward in order to roll-out the hugely anticipated goods and services tax, or GST, by the self-set deadline of 1st July, 2017. Experts have not shied away from terming the new sales tax regime as the most significant economic reform since the economic liberalisation led by […]
Dispatch Management
Loading a shipping container?—?Part II
Key Takeaways (Volumetric Packing Benchmarks) I hope you all enjoyed the first read in the series of write-ups on the Lattice 3D packing. Locus has since, been busy improving the core 3D packing algorithm, adding more features and tuning its hyper parameters. We will visit all of these in a dedicated, follow-up article. Until then let’s get into some specifics […]
Dispatch Management
How Intelligent Retail Logistics Management Works – White Glove Furniture Delivery Company Success Story
Key Takeaways The last few years have been pivotal for startups all over the world. New ideas crop up everyday with the goal to simplify things across all sorts of industries. Quite often, these ideas and businesses are life changing and one of the defining factors of their financial success is the mastery of the logistics […]
Route Optimization
Geocoding: Necessary information is sufficient information
Key Takeaways Introduction The fundamental purpose of any language is to convey information, whether it is natural languages or programming languages. However, natural languages have evolved over thousands of years to tolerate a very high degree of ambiguity. For example, if you love the food in a restaurant, you can tell your friends later that […]
Dispatch Management
The Demonetisation impact over Banking Logistics
Key Takeaways How are Banks going to solve the mighty challenge? The currency demonetization will go down as a revolutionary step in the books of Indian economy. But this revolution will come at a huge cost and pain to banks?—?they need to make the logistics work amidst the most challenging cash management exercises of all […]
Fleet Optimization
Effects of Demonetisation on Logistics Sector – Boon Or Bane
Demonetisation of 500 and 1000 Rupee notes- Boon Or Bane for the Logistics Sector? Key Takeaways While the western side of the world is undergoing a major political sea change, India has been stumped by a surprise currency ban. Indians struggled to pay for basic goods like food and fuel yesterday and fretted about their […]
E-Commerce
Reverse Logistics : Forward Thinking Pays Big Dividends
Key Takeaways “The line between disorder and order lies in logistics”?—?Sun Tzu, The Art of War Over the past few years, the global logistics industry has witnessed an increased interest in product returns, recovery, exchange and redistribution. Stats validate that 8 to 9 percent of goods purchased at brick and mortar stores and 25 to […]
Route Optimization
How good is your Geocoder?
Key Takeaways What is the purpose of geocoding? Geocoding is a very important piece of the intricate logistics puzzle that Locus is solving for its clients. This merits a constant evaluation of its performance over different regions of the world. However, getting a sense of how good a geocoder is performing requires a very nuanced selection of […]
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