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How Artificial Intelligence Can Help In Supply Chain Decision Making

Supply Chain Optimization

How Artificial Intelligence Can Help In Supply Chain Decision Making

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Jul 20, 2018

Artificial Intelligence is the latest buzzword that is making rounds in the logistics sector. AI promises to increase efficiency, cut costs and minimize human dependency at every mile of the supply chain. It also claims to foresee your future orders, predict your consumer behaviour and track every resource available to your company. But how does […]

Travelling Salesman Problem

Route Optimization

Travelling Salesman Problem Is Not A Problem, It’s A Herculean Task.

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Apr 22, 2018

There is one problem that never goes out of fashion even though people in mathematics have tried to optimize solutions for it over decades. Yes, decades! To nobody’s surprise, the Travelling Salesman Problem (read: TSP) remains to be one of the most fascinating and complicated algorithms to innovate upon. The solutions to this problem only have a […]

Route Optimization Engine

Route Optimization

How The World’s Best Route Optimization Engine Works

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Jan 29, 2018

While other traditional ‘track & trace’ solutions tell you ‘where your truck is’, Locus’ route optimization engine goes a step further to answer ‘where your truck should be!’ Consider the following scenario: 10 Shipments, 10 drop-off locations. 1 rider to complete the job in a day. Sounds simple enough problem to solve, isn’t it? Numerous cognitive […]

Sales Beat Optimization in FMCG

Route Optimization

The Curious Case of FMCG Sales Beats Optimization

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Nov 15, 2017

Indian Retail is a Buyer’s game today. In E-Commerce as well as offline modern trade, consumers are truly the king, with every tick of the clock bringing new choices. Hence it has become both, vital and challenging for enterprises to be close to the end consumer. An efficient distribution system, which reduces order to delivery […]

Followed by Randomness

Last Mile Delivery Optimization

Followed by Randomness

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Nov 2, 2017

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 developing computationally […]

Bringing Banking to the Customer’s Doorstep with ‘Locus for BFSI’

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Bringing Banking to the Customer’s Doorstep with ‘Locus for BFSI’

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Jul 18, 2017

Expectations are a moving target, thereby creating the need for institutions to regularly track and understand how they are Performing Against Customer Expectations (PACE). The PACE index for the banking sector does this on an annual basis, in a global study spanning 8,000 customers and 500 small businesses. The 2016 survey revealed that Indian banks were near the bottom of the global […]

‘One Nation, One Tax’ — A Sector-Wise Impact Breakdown locus.sh

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‘One Nation, One Tax’ — A Sector-Wise Impact Breakdown

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Jun 29, 2017

The hula-hoop around GST has been spinning for a while now, just enough to make it a strong contender for news of the year. It is finally here, despite protests from various corners of the polygon that is the Indian business sector, from diamond merchants to fabric traders to the film industry. But the train […]

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Fleet Optimization

Skill Based Routing: The Sorting Hat of Intelligent Logistics

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Jun 20, 2017

In our previous post, we had introduced the concept of serviceability, its significance and implication for the future of logistics. It would not be telling to say that we have only scratched the surface. Leaving it at that will be like belittling the layers that lie beneath. Let’s dig deeper… Serviceability has an unpredictable complexion to […]