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9 Essential Tips for Building a Cross-border E-commerce Strategy
33% of consumers bought more cross border due to pandemic- IPC Cross-Border E-commerce shopper survey, 2020. 47% of cross-border deliveries were slower due to COVID-19. – IPC Cross-Border E-commerce shopper survey, 2020. Today, E-commerce has made cross-border selling and buying much easier than a decade ago. Though the demand for cross border e-commerce has increased […]
Tech and Product
Successful Proving of Concepts
“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 […]
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‘In Focus’ with Locus’ Leading Lady – Sreedevi Kaimal
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players”, said Shakespeare, truly knowing that you come on the stage, play your part and make an exit when you are done. Sreedevi Kaimal, also known as ‘Sree’, picked up and adapted to this ideology early on in her life. True to the […]
Tech and Product
Solving Permanent Journey Planning at Locus
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 […]
Sustainability
Enable Sustainability from Raw Material Sourcing to the Last Mile
The days of small-scale sustainability are long gone, and the world demands more than mere lip service when it comes to green logistics. Companies all over the world and across all industries must devote themselves to creating and maintaining greener supply chains. We need to come up with models that have an increased focus on […]
Last Mile Delivery Optimization
Impact of Mega Distribution Centers in Logistics
Black swan events like Covid-19 pandemic have forced the logistics industry to rethink and replan their warehouse strategies. Before this pandemic, companies managed their warehouse operations using the Just In Time (JIT) principle. It has shaken up the supply chain activities from Just-In-Time to Never on time. For a JIT warehouse management to be successful, […]
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How Locus Carries out Multi-Country Enagagements
Organizations are growing and expanding their business operations across the globe. With this evolving nature of business, the supply chain and logistics network needed to support these business operations have become more complex. In order to scale up and manage these globally fragmented logistics networks, many companies have started to use a universal cloud-based TMS […]
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GoTo Merger – A Super App, Woke Consumers, and A Transforming SEA Economy
2019. That was the year when I first experienced the true power of wielding an app where I could hail a cab, order food or simply get parcels delivered anywhere in the city, all from a single interface. Although India had advanced reasonably well in the ride-hailing, food and b2c deliveries, and fintech industries individually […]
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