Category: Route Optimization

How to Optimize Permanent Journey Planning (PJP) in FMCG and Retail Supply Chains

Retail & CPG

How to Optimize Permanent Journey Planning (PJP) in FMCG and Retail Supply Chains

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Shweta Sarma

Mar 10, 2021

Revenue is driven by a number of different factors in retail and FMCG markets — constantly evolving customer expectations, rising market competition, omnichannel trends, location demographics, and the effectiveness of supply chain elements, especially timely and effective distribution of goods to retail outlets from where the end customer buys the products.  Typically, this is how […]

Winter-Proof Logistics

Last Mile Delivery Optimization

How Delivery Logistics Software Helps Businesses Winter-Proof Their Logistics Operations

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Lakshmi D

Mar 9, 2021

Few of the severe and defining issues that have cropped up with global warming are the unprecedented and inevitable climate events like the one in Texas. It has become impossible to predict events such as winter storms, hurricanes, polar vortices and wildfires. The need of the hour is efficient contingency plans.  Trucking companies have more […]

How Customer Expectations are reshaping the B2B space

Last Mile Delivery Optimization

How Customer Expectations are Redefining B2B Logistics Businesses in 2021

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Shweta Sarma

Jan 19, 2021

The E-Commerce boom has influenced consumer behaviour like never before. Economics taught us that it was the price that drove demand. Now, we are learning how convenience drives demand even more. 2020 was a disruptive year in more ways than one, but remarkably disruptive in how it changed the way people buy and sell. The […]

8 Factors to Consider When Choosing a Vehicle Route Optimization Software

Last Mile Delivery Optimization

8 Factors to Consider When Choosing a Vehicle Route Optimization Software in 2021

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locus_dhruv

Dec 30, 2020

The new wave of coronavirus has made life tough again and hopes of easing restrictions have taken a back seat.  Social distancing norms have become much stricter and consumer behaviour has seen a massive transformation. The e-commerce demand spike has forced logistics companies to maintain productivity and improve their customer service at the same time. […]

Single’s Day Sale

Delivery Experience

A Sneak Peek into Alibaba’s Logistics Prep Ahead of Single’s Day 2020

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Shweta Sarma

Oct 28, 2020

Single’s Day, Guanggun Jie, or Bare Sticks Holiday, celebrated on November 11 every year, is one of the biggest commercial holidays across the world. Originally, Single’s Day was started in 1993 by university students at Nanjing University in China as a celebration of singlehood, marked by purchasing gifts and going out for parties. 11:11 was […]

How to address the real-time courier dispatch challenges arising due to COVID-19

3PL

How to address real-time courier dispatch challenges?

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Lakshmi D

Sep 18, 2020

The consumer’s demand for faster, trackable, and efficient dispatch delivery is increasing. This rising demand has posed many challenges for the courier dispatching industry, especially in courier dispatch.  What is a courier dispatch software?  A courier dispatch software is a tool that a fleet manager uses to assign jobs to drivers. It is designed to […]

Optimizing Last-Mile Fulfillment for FMCG Businesses in the Middle East

Last Mile Delivery Optimization

Optimizing Last-Mile Fulfillment for FMCG Businesses in the Middle East

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Shweta Sarma

Sep 16, 2020

In 2019, Bain & Co. predicted that the retail industry in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is on the verge of a pivotal shift. “E-commerce is becoming a reality,” the management consulting company stated, “reinventing consumers’ path to purchase, forming new customer experiences, disrupting business models, and creating growth opportunities for large and […]

Biopharmaceutical Cold Chain Logistics: Challenges and Opportunities

Healthcare / Pharmaceutical

How Delivery Optimization Software can Help biopharmaceutical cold-chain logistics?

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Lakshmi D

Aug 21, 2020

Earlier cold chains were confined to a narrow brand of drug products. Today, with the rise of biopharmaceuticals, cold chain logistics is more important than ever.    What is a cold chain from a logistics point of view?  A temperature-controlled supply chain is called a cold chain. Samples from clinical trials, biologics, vaccines, different classes of […]