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Supply Chain Optimization
Building Supply Chain Resilience in Uncertain Times
Mar 30, 2021
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
Mar 10, 2021
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
Mar 9, 2021
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
Mar 2, 2021
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
Feb 17, 2021
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
Feb 12, 2021
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 […]
Last Mile Delivery Optimization
Crowdsourced Delivery Is Changing the Last-Mile Delivery Game
Feb 11, 2021
Updated on: August 10, 2022 Key Takeaways The movie or book series of Harry Potter has a separate fanbase for the spells casted in it. We used to imagine ourselves as Hogwarts students and repeat the spell used in it. One such spell used in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was Accio. This […]
Last Mile Delivery Optimization
How Customer Expectations are Redefining B2B Logistics Businesses in 2021
Jan 19, 2021
Key Takeaways The E-Commerce boom has influenced consumer behaviour like never before. Economics taught us that it was the price that drove demand. Now, we are learning how convenience drives demand even more. 2020 was a disruptive year in more ways than one, but remarkably disruptive in how it changed the way people buy and […]
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