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How Intelligent Retail Logistics Management Works – White Glove Furniture Delivery Company Success Story
Feb 12, 2017
The last few years have been pivotal for startups all over the world. New ideas crop up everyday with the goal to simplify things across all sorts of industries. Quite often, these ideas and businesses are life changing and one of the defining factors of their financial success is the mastery of the logistics game. Companies […]
Route Optimization
Geocoding: Necessary information is sufficient information
Jan 19, 2017
Introduction The fundamental purpose of any language is to convey information, whether it is natural languages or programming languages. However, natural languages have evolved over thousands of years to tolerate a very high degree of ambiguity. For example, if you love the food in a restaurant, you can tell your friends later that “the food […]
Dispatch Management
The Demonetisation impact over Banking Logistics
Nov 12, 2016
How are Banks going to solve the mighty challenge? The currency demonetization will go down as a revolutionary step in the books of Indian economy. But this revolution will come at a huge cost and pain to banks — they need to make the logistics work amidst the most challenging cash management exercises of all times. The […]
Fleet Optimization
Effects of Demonetisation on Logistics Sector – Boon Or Bane
Nov 10, 2016
Demonetisation of 500 and 1000 Rupee notes- Boon Or Bane for the Logistics Sector? While the western side of the world is undergoing a major political sea change, India has been stumped by a surprise currency ban. Indians struggled to pay for basic goods like food and fuel yesterday and fretted about their savings, after […]
E-Commerce
Reverse Logistics : Forward Thinking Pays Big Dividends
Sep 26, 2016
“The line between disorder and order lies in logistics” — Sun Tzu, The Art of War Over the past few years, the global logistics industry has witnessed an increased interest in product returns, recovery, exchange and redistribution. Stats validate that 8 to 9 percent of goods purchased at brick and mortar stores and 25 to 30 percent […]
Route Optimization
How good is your Geocoder?
Sep 12, 2016
What is the purpose of geocoding? Geocoding is a very important piece of the intricate logistics puzzle that Locus is solving for its clients. This merits a constant evaluation of its performance over different regions of the world. However, getting a sense of how good a geocoder is performing requires a very nuanced selection of the metrics […]
Dispatch Management
We See Dimensions that others don’t
Aug 25, 2016
At Locus’ Data Science team, we sift through complex problems every single day. And to see through deep complexity, it takes cleverness, technical acumen, creativity and boldness. Locus has gathered a stellar team for working on theoretically unsolvable and tough problems. This article is an introduction to the Data Science team here and how we get […]
Dispatch Management
Loading a shipping container — Part I
Aug 10, 2016
Let’s start with a fable about 3D bin packing. Yes, they were worried about algorithms in the Panchatantra era too. Our default character set: a wise old sage, one greedy miner and one righteous miner. The sage offers the following get-rich-quick scheme to the miners. There is a heap of 100 gold bricks and 1 wooden trunk. […]
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