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Reduction of carbon emissions by minimizing fuel-miles
Jun 16, 2021
Authors: Arpita Mishra and Zubin Pradhan Supply chain enterprises have the prime social responsibility of adopting sustainability measures and controlling the negative impact of logistics on the environment. In terms of global transport emissions, the road sector is by far the largest emitter, with passenger and freight transport contributing nearly three-quarters of the overall transport […]
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The Art of Problem-Solving: Shantanu Bhattacharya’s Journey from DNA to Data Science
Jun 14, 2021
There are some people who love what they do and there are others who love their work so much they decide to name their pet project after their daughter. Locus’s Chief Data Scientist, Shantanu Bhattacharyya belongs to the latter. But to call Shantanu a mere data scientist does not do justice to his extraordinary person […]
Tech and Product
How we wrote a pipeline abstraction module with one line of code
Jun 10, 2021
A declarative implementation of the pipeline design pattern for maintaining rapidly evolving and complex data science workflows. Motivation: At the core of all the products at Locus lie complex mathematical models and large workflows which are expected to perform at scale. None more so than our brand new strategic supply chain planning platform, Locus NodeIQ. […]
E-Commerce
Supermarkets in the Age of E-commerce
Jun 9, 2021
Times are a-changin’. To be fair, they have been changing ever since the boom of E-commerce. It is the pandemic that really shook things up though, and now that we’re more than a year into it, the face of retail looks completely different. As more and more customers hop online to make purchases, store isles […]
Tech and Product
Logistics is the New Software
Jun 2, 2021
Every consumer company WILL be a logistics company. Logistics is the new software. Yes! Let that sink in. The ‘legacy software’ way of running supply chain and logistics is no longer viable for the present ‘on-demand’ world. It needs a new ‘operating system’ to run on. Building such a ‘system’ requires ground-up innovation and first […]
Last Mile Delivery Optimization
How Delivery Logistics Software Improves On-Time In Full (OTIF) Delivery Score
May 21, 2021
Amongst shippers, 51% told us that a lack of clarity on customer demand was the biggest bottleneck emerging as a result of COVID-19. – Emerging out of the Pandemic Supply Chain Report, Reuters Events, Oct 2020 The ability to fulfill customer needs, by delivering goods at the right place and time, determines the efficiency of […]
Sustainability
How Microhubs Contribute Towards Sustainable Urban Freight Logistics
May 12, 2021
Globally, more people live in urban areas than in rural areas, with 55 percent of the world’s population residing in urban areas in 2018. In 1950, 30 percent of the world’s population was urban, and by 2050, 68 percent of the world’s population is projected to be urban. – World Urbanization Prospects, 2018. Due to […]
Retail & CPG
Convenience is King: Here’s Why the Click-and-Collect Model Works
May 10, 2021
The days of scanning through shelves in a grocery store for your favorite brand of mustard are long gone. This means no more standing in long queues, no more trolley bumping, and no store assistants trailing behind you. The obvious alternative may seem home delivery. But that also means additional shipping costs and a tedious […]
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