Key Takeaways

The Locus mobile app now supports up to 200 delivery tasks on both iOS and Android platforms, enabling delivery personnel to handle larger workloads efficiently.
Enhanced security features include mandatory phone number verification for drivers every 90 days and required password resets for first-time dashboard users.
New custom reporting capabilities allow users to create personalized dashboards with varied graphs and metrics for better operational insights.
Locus’s reconciliation tool streamlines transportation cost management by automating invoice processing and providing built-in alerts for rate deviations.

With most of the year gone past with battling the pandemic, each of you has shown commendable business resilience. We are proud to have partnered with you to bring about change and innovation which is the need of the hour. As an extension to providing businesses support, here are the latest releases from Locus that would help you achieve more through these times.

Increased Security and staying up to date:

Driver Phone number verification – Enabling phone number verification via Pin/OTP for your delivery force, thus ensuring the data of your end customers are in secure hands. Every 90 days, riders would need to update or validate their phone number. This feature will support the warehousing team to have a consolidated and updated list for emergency/ad hoc contacts.
Password Reset on 1st login on Locus Dashboard – Empowering dispatchers to define a secure password upon 1st login on the dashboard. You could configure the expiry period ensuring your users are updating their passwords periodically.

Improved Scale: Support 200 Task on Locus on the Road App

Improved Scale: Support 200 Tasks on Locus on the Road App – During these times, our delivery warriors are stretched thin, the app is scaled to support 200 tasks on iOS and Android. We truly believe this will bring a significant impact on your operational productivity.

Master Management: Settings Consolidation – Empowering admin users to manage access better. Now manage and grant access to Teams, Homebase Personnels via Master Management tab on Locus Dashboard

Custom Insights now available on Locus Dashboard!

Powering our Locus users to gain insights via a larger variety of graphs, reports and metrics. Create custom dashboards with graphs across your user profiles. Reach out to your CSMs to configure this for you.

Check Out: Guide on Transport Management System

Reconciliation made Easy

Get away from the hassle of keeping manual track of transportation costs and bills, launching your friendly Locus reconciliation tool. The tool provides a:

Auditing tool for companies/customers and transporters to raise and approve invoices respectively against verified rates. The inbuilt alerts notify both approver and requestor of any deviations
Accept, scrutinise or reject billing proposals via the unified platform maintaining all communication and access logs
Available for use via manual upload or API with integrations across ERPs. against verified rates. The inbuilt alerts notify both approver and requestor of any deviations
Accept, scrutinise or reject billing proposals via the unified platform maintaining all communication and access logs
Available for use via manual upload or API with integrations across ERPs

Raise of Hub and Spoke Distribution Model

As Napoleon Hill once said “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success”

We wish you all a phenomenal quarter of business! Stay healthy & safe

Contact your Customer Success Managers to know more!

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Written by the Locus Solutions Team—logistics technology experts helping enterprise fleets scale with confidence and precision.

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