Category: Route Optimization

Multi stop route planning software showing a quick route on a smart phone

Route Optimization

Multi-stop route planning and why is it important?

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Lakshmi D

Jun 24, 2020

Multi-stop route planning selects the optimal and most productive route for visiting multiple customer locations. Learn about multi-stop route optimization!

Why Geocoding matters and the tech behind it

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Why Geocoding matters and the tech behind it

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locus_dhruv

Jun 18, 2020

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. […]

Vehicle Routing Problem

Route Optimization

Explained: Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) and the most effective solution to address it

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Lakshmi D

Jun 16, 2020

Vehicle Routing Problem is a constant in the last-mile delivery business. It happens due to the delivery and resource constraints planners face while coming up with minimum-cost vehicle routes. Solving it helps them reduce operational costs and enhance the quality of delivery services.  With the massive spread of COVID-19, delivery businesses are handling larger delivery […]

Route Optimization Software for Small and Mid-Sized Fleet

Route Optimization

How to choose Route Optimization Software for Small and Mid-Sized Fleet?

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Lakshmi D

Jun 12, 2020

The dispatch planning process has become quite complicated, with a varied mix of daily customer orders and multiple options for vehicles and routes. This complexity has made delivery companies search for good route optimization software for their small and mid-sized fleets.  Route planners and logistics managers attach a lot of significance to route optimization. A […]

Minimize your Delivery Complexities using Logistics Automation

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Minimize your Last Mile Logistics Delivery Complexities using Logistics Automation

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Lakshmi D

May 19, 2020

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 […]

Zone-based Routing

Last Mile Delivery Optimization

COVID-19 : Time to Zone out

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Shantanu B

May 18, 2020

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, […]

Zone-based routing

3PL

Zone-based routing is the need of the hour

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locus_dhruv

May 12, 2020

Terms like Red, Amber, Green; Red, Orange, Green; phased opening; restrictions; have all become a crucial part of our lives in the last few weeks. With the world slowly opening up amidst the Covid-19 outbreak, supply chain and logistics is going to play a really crucial role in setting up the ‘new normal’. Team Locus caught up […]

Pharmaceuticals Supply Chain

Healthcare / Pharmaceutical

Managing the Pharma Supply Chain smoothly amidst the COVID-19 chaos

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Shweta Sarma

May 6, 2020

We’re in the year of a devastating global pandemic that has put the entire mankind at risk. The COVID-19 outbreak has affected over 3.5 million people so far and is continuing to disrupt normal life and economies around the world. Over 100 vaccines are currently under pre-clinical tests, but healthcare experts are still not sure […]