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Category: Last Mile Delivery Optimization
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Why Geocoding matters and the tech behind it
Team Locus Vittal Sirigiri, one of the top data scientists in Locus, has had quite the professional journey—investment banker, cofounder of a food business, self-taught coder, he’s worn many hats. Vittal’s will to keep expanding his horizons and love for all things numbers made him take up data science and he’s not looked back since. […]
E-Commerce
Why Buy Online and Pick Up In-Store (BOPIS) is the need of the hour for retailers
By 2021, 90% of retailers will offer BOPIS, and 75% of them will be able to identify and customize their customers visits. – Retail Touchpoints Report The COVID-19 pandemic has made consumers move towards an omni-channel service like Buy Online and Pick up In-Store. Today, retailers in the US are trying to perfect the BOPIS experience as […]
Delivery Experience
Hyperlocal Delivery Markets See a New Dawn in the US During COVID-19
Hyperlocal Delivery Market: Halfway through the year of the pandemic, we’re living in a completely different world now. Novel Coronavirus has not just endangered human lives, it has hit the world economy hard and impacted several industries around the globe. It has turned markets around, giving rise to trends and disruptions we couldn’t have imagined. […]
Last Mile Delivery Optimization
Omnichannel is the way forward for non-essential retail
Retailers whose livelihoods are dependent on physical stores are feeling the heat due to the coronavirus pandemic. Footfalls have gone down, the future looks bleak, especially if you are selling non-essential goods. But, the only light at the end of the tunnel is that the boundary between offline and online has blurred. This has made […]
Delivery Experience
Tackling Restaurant Supply Chain Challenges with Delivery Optimization Software
The online food delivery market is growing at an explosive pace in Southeast Asia. Rapidly increasing disposable income, a growing population of tech-savvy millennials, and a convenience-driven consumer lifestyle are the major factors influencing the rise of the restaurant delivery or online food delivery industry in the region. According to a report by Google, Southeast […]
Last Mile Delivery Optimization
Using AI and Data Science to combat Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic makes Shantanu Bhattacharyya, Locus’ Chief Data Scientist, remember his days as a computational biologist working on the HIV vaccines at The Scripps Research Institute. He fondly remembers how he spent days and days in the lab researching, coming up with new ideas, looking at data to interpret patterns. “I was working on vaccine […]
3PL
Minimize your Last Mile Logistics Delivery Complexities using Logistics Automation
Last mile logistics deliveries are becoming more complicated with each passing day. On one-side, customer expectations are increasing, and on the other, delivery companies are struggling with rising distribution costs and pressures to maintain profitability. How automation eliminates delivery complexities in last mile logistics? Last-mile technologies like logistics automation have made it possible to run […]
Last Mile Delivery Optimization
COVID-19 : Time to Zone out
Ever since the global community took note of the COVID-19 transforming into a pandemic, enforced social distancing or lockdowns have been a consistent reaction from every Government (barring rare exceptions like Sweden). The severity of the lockdown has varied from recommendations to stay indoors to military enforced mandatory restrictions on any movement deemed non-essential. India, […]
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