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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 […]

Liberalization of Geospatial Data and Mapping Policies

Tech and Product

Liberalization of Geospatial Data and Mapping Policies Could Unlock New Doors for India’s Logistics Tech Industry

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locus_dhruv

Mar 2, 2021

India’s Ministry of Science and Technology has announced changes to the country’s mapping and geospatial data laws, liberalizing regulations on geospatial information, making it freely available for innovation and IT companies across the country.  New guidelines have been issued for acquiring and producing geospatial data and geospatial data services, including maps. Indian citizens, corporations, and […]

The Future of E-Grocery

Delivery Experience

Things Are Looking Up – The Future of E-Grocery

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Mrinalini Khattar

Feb 17, 2021

There are few things destined for growth and e-grocery is one of them. This is owed to the disruption caused by the pandemic. It has brought about an incredible change in consumer behaviour and finally broken one of the most difficult shopping patterns—grocery shopping.   Although online shopping has cast a shadow on most retail stores, […]

dark stores

Grocery

Will dark stores be the dark horse in this age of ever-increasing demand

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Nishith Rastogi

Feb 12, 2021

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.” ― Mary Shelly Chaos.  That was the state of supply chains in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.  While the situation is undoubtedly better now, one has to accept that the chaos created by the pandemic has […]

Crowdsourced Delivery

Last Mile Delivery Optimization

Crowdsourced Delivery Is Changing the Last-Mile Delivery Game

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Mrinalini Khattar

Feb 11, 2021

Updated on: August 10, 2022 The movie or book series of Harry Potter has a separate fanbase for the spells casted in it. We used to imagine ourselves as Hogwarts students and repeat the spell used in it. One such spell used in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was Accio. This spell Accio […]

Electric Vehicles for Last-Mile Deliveries

Last Mile Delivery Optimization

Electric Vehicles (EVs) — The Future of Last-Mile Deliveries in 2021 and Beyond

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Shweta Sarma

Feb 9, 2021

As convenience, delivery speed, and efficiency continue to define customer experience, there is a steady growth in the use of Electric Vehicles to carry out last-mile operations. EVs are eco-friendly and offer some hidden business gains to supply chain enterprises. Read on to catch up on this rising trend that is shaping up the future […]

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 […]

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