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Hyperlocal Delivery Markets See a New Dawn in the US During COVID-19

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Shweta Sarma

Jun 3, 2020

Hyperlocal Delivery Market: Halfway through the year of the pandemic, we’re living in a completely different world now. Novel Coronavirus has not just endangered human lives, it has hit the world economy hard and impacted several industries around the globe. It has turned markets around, giving rise to trends and disruptions we couldn’t have imagined. […]

Fleet Tracking and Route Optimization for Food Delivery Companies

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Why are Fleet Tracking and Route Optimization important for Food Delivery Companies in Southeast Asia?

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Lakshmi D

May 29, 2020

The food delivery market in Southeast Asia is estimated to grow up to US$8 billion by 2025 from US$2 billion IN 2018. – Google and Temasek (Singapore’s state investment arm) The surge in demand for food delivery has expanded the reach of delivery services. In Southeast Asian countries, the working population is increasingly ordering food […]

Pop-Up Distribution Centers

Fleet Optimization

How Pop-Up Distribution Centers can solve COVID-19 Warehousing Challenges

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Shweta Sarma

May 28, 2020

COVID-19 has brought some unprecedented challenges for America’s supply chain businesses. Restrictions on imports, shortage of ground resources, and limited manufacturing operations are causing stiffness in supply chain movement. Meeting the rising consumer demands and managing fulfillment operations is becoming increasingly difficult for companies in E-commerce, consumer goods, pharmacy, and retail supply chains across the United States.  […]

Omnichannel is the way forward for non-essential retail

Last Mile Delivery Optimization

Omnichannel is the way forward for non-essential retail

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Lakshmi D

May 26, 2020

Retailers whose livelihoods are dependent on physical stores are feeling the heat due to the coronavirus pandemic. Footfalls have gone down, the future looks bleak, especially if you are selling non-essential goods.  But, the only light at the end of the tunnel is that the boundary between offline and online has blurred. This has made […]

Restaurant Delivery Optimization Software

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Tackling Restaurant Supply Chain Challenges with Delivery Optimization Software

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Shweta Sarma

May 21, 2020

The online food delivery market is growing at an explosive pace in Southeast Asia. Rapidly increasing disposable income, a growing population of tech-savvy millennials, and a convenience-driven consumer lifestyle are the major factors influencing the rise of the restaurant delivery or online food delivery industry in the region. According to a report by Google, Southeast […]

Using AI and Data Science to combat Covid-19

Last Mile Delivery Optimization

Using AI and Data Science to combat Covid-19

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May 19, 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic makes Shantanu Bhattacharyya, Locus’ Chief Data Scientist, remember his days as a computational biologist working on the HIV vaccines at The Scripps Research Institute. He fondly remembers how he spent days and days in the lab researching, coming up with new ideas, looking at data to interpret patterns. “I was working on vaccine […]

Minimize your Delivery Complexities using Logistics Automation

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Minimize your Last Mile Logistics Delivery Complexities using Logistics Automation

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, […]

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