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E-Commerce
Last Mile Delivery Innovations for E-commerce Industry
Mar 17, 2020
Key Takeaways What’s new in the last mile delivery innovations for E-commerce? Fleet drivers, these days, are usually in the tense ‘eleventh-hour’ exam prep mode when they are set for delivery. With increasing complexities in last-mile deliveries, it is becoming challenging to fulfill deliveries on time. Insufficient technologies prevent E-commerce retailers from meeting fulfillment timelines. The need […]
News
Reliance Now Set to Disrupt Indian E-commerce
Jan 21, 2020
Reliance launches its much-awaited e-commerce venture, JioMart, India’s newest online supermarket. Will it do to e-commerce what it did to telecom?
Blog
No Deal Brexit: A Nightmare for European Logistics?
Oct 14, 2019
Key Takeaways Brexit has been a sensational controversy for a long time now but long-delayed for several reasons. However, D-Day is approaching soon. The much-awaited divorce between the UK and the EU is scheduled to take place at 23:00 GMT on the 31st of October, making the Halloween of 2019 even more eventful. Brexit marks […]
Last Mile Delivery Optimization
Followed by Randomness
Nov 2, 2017
Key Takeaways Rolling dice has been a divine act since ancient times. For Pre-Christians who lived along the MediterraneanSea, the die was the law of the land. Since then human beings have not shied away from exploiting its power in all spheres of life, be it for recreation, gambling, moving economy, predicting weather, and even […]
Route Optimization
Geocoding: Necessary information is sufficient information
Jan 19, 2017
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 […]
Route Optimization
How good is your Geocoder?
Sep 12, 2016
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 […]
Dispatch Management
Loading a shipping container ?—?Part I
Aug 10, 2016
Key Takeaways Let’s start with a fable about 3D bin packing. Yes, they were worried about algorithms in the Panchatantra era too. Our default character set: a wise old sage, one greedy miner and one righteous miner. The sage offers the following get-rich-quick scheme to the miners. There is a heap of 100 gold bricks and 1 […]
Route Optimization
Mapping the world – Easy Address Geocoding
Jul 28, 2016
Enter current address. Enter Destination. Done! Key Takeaways Whether you are checking out a new restaurant across the town or driving cross country to meet your loved ones, finding the exact location of any place and the most optimal way to get there has never been easier. One of the most ubiquitously used map service […]
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