Category: Tech and Product

Successful Proving of Concepts

Tech and Product

Successful Proving of Concepts

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Sai Shiva

Jul 14, 2021

“Hola Jesus”“Hola cómo vas”“Su ubicación ha desaparecido”“¿Cómo cambiar esa configuración?” That is an excerpt from a Whatsapp conversation I had with one of the drivers while conducting a Proof of Concept (POC) in Quito, Ecuador. I do not speak Spanish, and the conversation could have been interpreted by both the participants differently. That day, I […]

Solving Permanent Journey Planning at Locus

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Solving Permanent Journey Planning at Locus

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Abhishek Goyal

Jul 7, 2021

Author: Abhishek Goyal; Edited by: Kewal Krishna PJP aka Permanent Journey Planning – What is it?  PJP refers to the day-level route planning mechanism for a fixed duration that a company or a distributor creates to visit several outlets in a specified region via several delivery partners for different products. Outlets can range from 500 […]

How we wrote a pipeline abstraction module with one line of code

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How we wrote a pipeline abstraction module with one line of code

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locus_dhruv

Jun 10, 2021

A declarative implementation of the pipeline design pattern for maintaining rapidly evolving and complex data science workflows. Motivation: At the core of all the products at Locus lie complex mathematical models and large workflows which are expected to perform at scale. None more so than our brand new strategic supply chain planning platform, Locus NodeIQ. […]

Logistics is the New Software

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Logistics is the New Software

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Nishith Rastogi

Jun 2, 2021

Every consumer company WILL be a logistics company. Logistics is the new software.  Yes! Let that sink in. The ‘legacy software’ way of running supply chain and logistics is no longer viable for the present ‘on-demand’ world. It needs a new ‘operating system’ to run on. Building such a ‘system’ requires ground-up innovation and first […]

Liberalization of Geospatial Data and Mapping Policies

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Liberalization of Geospatial Data and Mapping Policies Could Unlock New Doors for India’s Logistics Tech Industry

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locus_dhruv

Mar 2, 2021

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, corporations, and […]

Increased-Security-and-staying-up-to-date

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What’s new @ Locus – New Releases: 200+ orders on App, Custom Reports and more…

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locus_dhruv

Nov 6, 2020

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 […]

Logistics Saas Company

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How we built a zero-waste product roadmap in a Logistics SaaS Company

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locus_dhruv

Oct 22, 2020

If you are a Product Manager (PM), it is highly likely that you dread the month before a new quarter begins. You, my friend, have to decide what your tech team will spend 25% of their year building. Your customer success team wants you to build that long-pending feature request raised by the customer, while […]

WebAssembly

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Turbocharge your front end using WebAssembly

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locus_dhruv

Oct 15, 2020

Authors: Vaibhav Aparimit & Arun Nalla JavaScript has evolved as the lingua franca for front end engineering. Having just one language for the front end is pretty dope as you develop once and run your code on any browser. Of course, you still need to test your web app on different browsers, but that’s okay […]