What’s with same-day or next-day deliveries? Well if haven’t forgotten important dates such as Valentine’s, Black Friday, or Thanksgiving, you won’t much appreciate the urgency of fast deliveries to save face. All’s well that ends well, and that’s why the right logistics technology, especially the last mile, is critical for flash events.
At the pace of current development, machine learning enabled delivery route optimization is the key to sustaining your brand to be consistently relevant for the upcoming future. To ensure that five years down the line you down get sidelined, get the right tech now.
The top challenges, especially for CPG companies, are lack of proper delivery movement visibility, lack of control of actual on-ground logistics, delayed reaction time if anything goes wrong on-ground, over or under-utilized truck capacities, inaccurate estimated time of arrivals (ETAs), etc. LogiNext can help overcome all these and more.
Consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry has been on a growth curve with a sustained CAGR of 10% possibly hitting $721.8 billion sales by 2020. Which side of this growth would your company stand on? One of the major driving factors for CPG, where bigger companies have their brands readily recognizable the world over, is being in the right place at the right time.
The client was one of the largest online home goods retailer in North America with more than 60 million active online users, 10 million hosted products, and 20,000 suppliers. LogiNext optimized their entire logistics movement with optimized carrier handling and high customer (delivery) experience.
As technology becomes deeply ingrained in the business operations, cloud-based tools lead the charge toward a new and improved fleet management landscape. From automation to IoT to in-fleet GPS tools, technology is the secret sauce to help fleet managers achieve goals across their organization.
Here are the top 3 things that’ll stay strong in 2019, shape how logistics is handled, and business is conducted across the globe. With the best delivery route planning software, logistics management would be more streamlined than ever before.
Why advanced delivery route planning is great for the global economy? Customers want fast deliveries. Companies want to deliver shipments faster and more efficiently using more resources at lower costs. They also want to become more reactive and agile in their delivery movement. These industries are becoming more customer-centric which is good for the economy. […]
The current path of logistics optimization demands a keen interest of the CIO, and this article is directed to bring them up-to-date with the benchmarks they should look for, paving the way for better business opportunities.
At LogiNext, we thrive on Technology and Innovation, which is why we are continuously winning the hearts of our clients at a Global platform. This success is governed by our belief that the right blend of People and Technology partnership is what steers our business ambition forward.
Tech is driving industries faster and faster. CAGR is keenly watched everywhere. Such tech needs leaders, and LogiNext has claimed its place, time and again, at the top of the chain.
Retail and e-commerce are moving fast and merging along the line into a singular platform. What is driving this behavior for these mega-entities? What is the one factor which is bringing all of retail and e-commerce onto one platform?
The Southeast Asian region would grow at 32% CAGR, reaching about $88 billion by 2025, Indian shores have taken up e-commerce strongly. Here, the market is slated to reach $64 billion by 2020, $200 billion by 2026, and surpass the U.S market by 2034
With LogiNext, high-end machine learning enabled logistics optimization rounds off at the end with human-driven achievements. In the world of fast-moving deliveries, this balance creates a sustainable and scalable model of efficiency.
Internet of things (IoT) with the latest in machine-learning backed algorithms are the way logistics would be optimized to meet all customer demands and requirements, right from fast shipping, live tracking and notifications, and on-time delivery with optimized final mile movement.
Retail, as we grown to recognize it, might not exist in the near future. This isn’t another retail doom warning. On the contrary, it’s about how the retail and e-commerce space is fast evolving. These players must give convenience wrapped in a neat delivery experience.
Gone are days of static analysis and planning. Deliveries are made not within charts and tables. They are made live, so should their scheduling and routing. All live. You know everything one glance, you can do everything in one click.
Amazon’s prime day upped the utilization of their fulfillment centers by over 25%. They have made their logistics leg into a powerhouse which they keep leveraging to get ahead of the competition. O one hand they are losing money and on the other, they are continuously building value, much more than any other company. What’s the key here?
Companies can compete by making a better product. But it’s no longer enough. The company also must create a great delivery experience for the customer. Proper logistics movement optimization is key, not just to ensure quick and on-time deliveries, but also to boost customer satisfaction and retention.
Ever wondered how some of these big-name e-commerce companies across the globe manage international sales events? It is only possible with tech creating shorter delivery routes and more successful (on-time) deliveries per day. This tech is the crux of what makes same-day delivery, not just a phenomenon but a reality.
Tech adoption and change management go hand in hand. You may invest billions in the latest tech, but if your people aren’t using it properly and getting the most benefit out of it, you would never see the full extent of benefits. How to avoid this? Train your folks in the best way of doing things.
Tech investment is not something you just write-off in your balance sheet, it’s about building for the future. With on-premise servers, even though the cost diminishes over time, their outdatedness increases. What’s the point of owning a cost-effective system which was relevant three years ago?
Elastic logistics is the new and evolved version of ‘lean supply chain movement’. As technology has caught up with logistics, latest delivery schedule and route planning help companies are on top of all market demand fluctuations and keep their products on shelves at all times or reach the consumer’s door within a day or two.
It’s costlier to acquire new customers compared to retaining them. With proper logistics optimization, companies can not only retain customers but also boost satisfaction and lifetime value. In this age of booming retail and e-commerce, logistics optimization is the best asset a company can have.
Today we speak to an industry veteran with close to two decades of raw delivery management experience. Liam O’Sullivan has earned matchless following and adulation in his career. He is the Director of Operations at International Post Corporation (IPC), Brussels, Belgium.
We are now well past the 1st April enforcement date for electronic logging device (ELD) implementation. Now if your trucks are stopped for a roadside inspection, how do you prepare to get through that without any violations? Here’s what you need to know to be violation free.
With technology, innovation is always around the corner. Some more than others. We have all seen the hikes in interest and following for tech innovations to have them fizzle out. We are at the start of such an upswing. Take a step further back, and you will get to the topic, Blockchain.
LogiNext’s field workforce optimization is machine learning-enabled planning engine which pulls in all the constraints such as preferred time slot visits, avoiding repeat visits, avoiding overlap or mirroring, and also to optimize the service time or time spent at each outlet
The World Bank has said logistical costs swallow up around a quarter of Indonesia’s gross domestic product, citing bottlenecks in supply chains, long dwelling times in ports and lengthy trade clearances. Indonesia’s e-commerce sales are set to rise from 3 percent of retail activity now to 19 percent by 2027, Morgan Stanley estimates.
Know where your drivers are at all times. A trucker was lost in snow-covered woods in Oregon for four days when the wrong address was plugged into the GPS. He managed to survive and walk back to more populated areas when his truck got stuck on small roads.
We have seen the Walmart acquiring Jet, Bonobos, Modcloth, and Shoebuy while planning to set up around 1000 pickup locations for online grocery shoppers. Racing Walmart to the front is Amazon with its grand acquisition of Wholefoods to enable faster deliveries with multiple pickup options.
Static planning is a function of yesteryear. Wake up to new-age dynamic route planning for your field agent management. Most of Fortune 500 companies are maximizing the value of their active field agents using intelligent planning and optimization. It’s the most appropriate tool at the hand of managers to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
Technology has enabled us to record, plan, allocate, dispatch, track, validate, and analyze all freight movement from a single dashboard with clear and real-time actionable insights in an easy-to-understand format. This leads to an agile, reactive, and dynamic setup for a company’s transportation management system.
Optimization is doing more with less while sustaining (or bettering) the efficiency of operations. With multiple orders and shipments constantly moving with an excess of customer requests and demand, fulfilling on-time deliveries consistently not only saves costs but also increases the overall brand value for the company.
With effective schedules and permanent journey plans for the delivery and field agents, resource movement cost can be reduced while increasing overall resource utilization. Shorter distances traveled with lesser detention leads to higher number of deliveries fulfilled and visits accomplished.
Enterprise mobility solutions are unlocking a new phase of benefits with respect to resource movement efficiency. With multiple industries and markets getting more and more focused on consumerism while finding new and better ways to satisfying the increasing global retail and e-commerce demand.
Under-utilized capacity carries a clear cost which adds to the cost-per-unit carried by the resource. It isn’t feasible to run under-utilized resources to fulfill the ever-increasing demand created due to expectations of on-demand, same, or next day deliveries. On-demand and preferred slot delivery (or pick-up) is made more efficient with the use of an auto-allocation engine.
Traditional trade occupies close to 90% in key developing markets. By leveraging cloud-based technology, last mile delivery can be optimized for such distribution networks, bringing in organized patterns within the industry and generate more value for all the stakeholders involved namely the retailers, the distributors, the manufacturers, and the end-customers.
We recently integrated with Alexa, Google Assistant, Cortana, and Siri. Now, the manager can simply relax and instruct their personal assistant to fetch the information for them. Almost anyone can use the personal assistant without any hassle. It doesn’t matter if they are tech-savvy.
Polar Vortex can disrupt logistics movement pushing up freight rates due to a shortage of trucks and drivers. Shipments may be delayed either due to rerouting away from snow-blocked highways or, being detained due to traffic bottlenecks. Multi-modal transport via railroads and ports are also affected.
We saw last mile delivery being used as the key input in all omnichannel strategies. We saw localization in distribution strategies centered around making last mile delivery more effective. We also saw machine learning being implemented successfully in logistics and field workforce planning. These trends would be the greatest influencers in 2018 for logistics and field workforce management.
Amazon opened its first brick and mortar retail store in Seattle, Washington, United States. The novelty of this store is that customers can just pick up whatever they want and just walk out of the store. Amazon would just charge the price of the items taken to their Amazon account. They call it the ‘Just Walk Out’ technology. Would it become a game-changer or disruptor in retail?
The U.S. government shut down at midnight on Friday, 19th January, 2018, after Democrats and Republicans, locked in a bitter dispute over immigration and border security, failed to agree on a last-minute deal to fund its operations. Democratic leaders wanted to include protections from deportation for about 700,000 undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children.
Here we are in conversation with Mr. Alok Gautam, the Country Logistics Leader at Dow Chemicals. He is an industry veteran with more than two decades of experience in the Chemicals and Oil & Gas industry. He is celebrated as a change maker and a man of keen intellect driving transformations across the industry.
It is time our industry stopped chasing Uberization and created an Airbnb model. In trucking, Uberization is still transactional brokerage. There are key differences in the personal transport versus the freight market. What we need is a pay-per-day model that allows for short-term dedicated capacity, rather than long term dedicated contracts.
There is a way to bridge this gap, between the expectation and outcomes. And it is ‘tech-backed optimization’. Cloud-based optimization of resources, routes, and deliveries is the best way to ensure that your company not just matches industry benchmarks, but also breaks and resets them continually.
Tech evolution must always be around a purpose. The purpose of the upgrades mentioned here, and many more that are regularly communicated to the clients through mailers, is singular. To optimize resource movement with a view to reduce operations costs and improve overall process efficiency.
Here are the top features of the year that created the most value for our clients. These features have the highest usage among managers. These managers keep sending back their delightful feedback from time to time. Based on our own analytics and market feedback we have collated this list of the top features which created the most business value.
This Christmas, make sure you plan and optimize all last mile deliveries to avoid delays and detentions. People need their gifts on time and Santa needs some help, so make sure your customers are delighted on Christmas Eve with on-time deliveries and error free invoicing.
Reduce your logistics management costs and increase overall efficiency by tracking drivers and their behavior in real-time. Industries, especially those with sensitive cargo and shipments, focus on tracking the behavior of their drivers to ensure service level agreement (SLA) compliance.
The Phase 2 (Mandatory Implementation) of ELDs began on the 18th of Dec 2017. US Department of Transport is mandating that drivers be on duty for a fixed set of hours (60 hours in 7 days, or 70 hours in 8 days; based on the breaks taken in between). There are multiple constraints was total hours of driving.
Case Study: How to Increase Sales Effectiveness by 25% in FMCG This is a story about effective field agent performance optimization and its resultant benefits. According to one of our major clients in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector, field sales effectiveness was something that they wanted to increase as soon as possible. […]
Along the heavily one-sided debate around Net Neutrality, we are once again amid the new age retail tradition of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Consumerism has driven multiple shopping trends in the past decade. This has become a lifestyle with the entire generations falling under this craze.
Your optimization and planning for logistics management and last mile deliveries are set to become much simpler. Here, LogiNext presents some of the best features released this month. Take your pick and find out which one applies best to your specific industry and market use cases. LogiNext’s feature release package has you covered. Here is you each feature would help you better your business.
Each image holds some memory space in the delivery person’s phone and it uses some amount of data as it is transferred through the Internet to the client’s dashboard or central processing point. To ensure proper authentication, the image must have high-definition and should be clear. Storing and transferring high-def images in quick time eats up battery and data from the phone.
A billion data points. One for every 8th person in the world. One for almost every vehicle in the world. Comprehensive location tracking data points encompassing more than three continents including North America, Asia, Northern Africa, and Southern Europe. It doesn’t get any bigger than this.
It’s an adage that worked for malls before. Ambience can accentuate the value of a product long enough to merit a premium. With the advent of omnichannel aesthetics, this has changed to effective last mile delivery. The process is not just about reaching the concerned location on-time. Last mile delivery has much more to it.
Bring your delivery management system into the new world. Communicate with your delivery personnel and track their movement while you optimize their routes and ensure on-time deliveries, right from a single app. The future of internal communications is here. Move on Slack and WhatsApp, LogiNext just changed the game.
Jack Ma inaugurated the world’s first Digital Free Trade Zone in Malaysia to boost e-commerce and small to medium size enterprises (SMEs) in Southeast Asia. Considering Malaysia’s proclivity in the Asian region, This Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ) would act as a perfect platform for physical and virtual business set-ups to leverage the recent boom of online businesses. Malaysia’s DFTZ is set to handle more than $65 billion worth of goods at full functionality.
In a logistically efficient utopia, your company would be able to fulfill all client and customer desires up to perfection while delivering the complete set of created value right from the ideation to execution. Transportation management system, handled through new-age tracking and analytics, can boost your market share and customer retention within a single quarter.
Fast Moving Consumer Goods companies across the world are building markets as they grow towards their ambitious targets. Some of these companies have high brand loyalty such as Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Mondelēz, P&G, Unilever, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, and even Philip Morris. Healthy distribution network is the most critical factor in guiding your products reach their intended users.
With the technological evolution in last mile delivery tracking and on-demand delivery management, companies are utilizing logistics optimization and machine learning backed technology to gain a competitive edge with their target markets. The customer is educated in the art of handling technology and knows exactly how technology would benefit delivery experience. Companies must not just respect these expectations, but also strive to exceed them at every chance they get.
While your field agents move around, make sure their time is well utilized by topping up your field service management with real-time workforce tracking. This adds a layer of agility and responsiveness in your services. The manager can react in quick time in case of any delay or service disruption. The faster reaction time also gives the companies the ability to capture key market insights at the right time.
Logistics management has now become the singular platform for cost leadership and profit generation. Most of the Fortune 500 companies partner with management consultants to streamline their strategies and processes. Accenture has time and again reinstated the importance of profitable and agile processes. They have adapted their strengths to incorporate logistics management as a core competency.
LogiNext believes in creating the best solutions encompassing the entire gamut of business use-cases. It’s not just about keeping pace with the technological developments in the space of optimized delivery management, but also about leading the responsibility for benchmarking the best practices in the industry.
Many industry experts have stated that their field workforce management leaves them with a lot to desire for. As we know the first step to effective field service management is getting the right person for the work. Once you have that, things should be a cakewalk, but it often isn’t. Why does this happen? And what can you do avoid that?
Decathlon, with a million daily shipments moving through its 1100 stores across the world, picks the best global route and resource optimization solution provider, LogiNext, to streamline their merchandise movement with accurate on-time deliveries and complete end-to-end distribution visibility.
To perfect field service automation and optimization, you must assess the knowledge base and abilities of your workforce and automate allocation of specific tasks requiring a particular set of skills to the field service professional possessing the same set. This would bring down the probability of dissatisfaction for your customer by dispatching the perfect field agent suited for the customer’s problem.
Brands ranging from Amazon, Walmart, Alibaba, Target, Uber, Tesla, and many more are diving hard into the zone of location intelligence. The biggest gainers for the same here are the Retail and FMCG trendsetters. Location Intelligence, the primal necessity of the new age, has the retail and FMCG world caught in a tight race to the finish.
What would you do when your plans for effective field service management don’t execute as you wish them? It’s simple. Just go back to the basics and reinvent the wheel. It’s an arduous task if you stack it as such. But imagine the big names like Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Apple, or Tesla. These companies renovate to resonate with each evolution stage of its audience.
How you perceive your logistics management solutions affect how you allocate and direct your last mile deliveries. Your last mile delivery management system has a purpose. It is a crucial factor in how you satisfy the market demand and that too, on-time.
Like any market driven model, logistics management software would come in to the central focus as more and more companies are utilizing them and reaping rich rewards. In the next five years, it will all be about quick and fast deliveries with logistics analytics, 100% location accuracy, and complete end-to-end visibility. LogiNext offers all this and much more, so we know the future is bright.
Consider the transportation industry. Transportation is no longer a support function, it is a necessity. The past year saw the highest amount of vehicle sales in most developed nations. The United States had more than 17.5 million car sales in 2016. Consumer movement is catching up with logistics transportation in some places and outperforming them in other places.
Stuck in traffic? That’s a problem from everyone from a delivery associate to an operations manager or their very customers. Every person understands the unpredictable nature of traffic snarls. We have all been there, “I am late. Stuck in traffic!”. It has become the epidemic of new generation of which we can’t find any cure. But should you ask questions? Is traffic the only reason meetings, appointments, or estimated time of arrivals are delayed?
We now stand at the forefront of the optimization revolution. Never has sweeping transformational changes benefited multiple industries more than right now. GST holds up the promise of total realignment and restructuring of how logistics movement happens across the nation. There would some resistance from some companies, as many are set in the way they have been doing things over a period and are averse to any sudden change.
Every single person or process, which gets in touch with the logistics system, can be recorded as a data point. These data inputs can be turned into insights to better plan for future shipments. The latest updates from a delivery route can be streamlined into the next trip. This means that with each trip, the system would learn something new which can be incorporated for the future.
As a company, we have spread wings across the globe, but Southeast Asia is where I find the perfect summation and confluence of diverse cultural flows. There is great balance between tradition and innovation. In Manila for the Forbes 30 Under 30 summit, I can’t help but marvel the power of innovation in bridging cultural and generational gaps across the world.
Distribution is retail has taken a new life post the rise in consumer demand across developing markets. Territorial mapping and analytics has infused the waning sector with vigor and ambition. What seemed liked the peak, turned out to be the tip of the iceberg. With these transformations, retail distribution can finally automate its distribution in terms of planning, execution, and optimization.
Our expectations as a customer have increased exponentially thanks to the ever-evolving technology. For example, now we expect our couriers to be delivered to us at our convenient location and time in the most optimum condition. According to Business Insider, “APAC accounted for 40% of global e-commerce sales in Q1 2017”
Asian retail and e-commerce market has grown leaps and bound in the past year and there is good reason to celebrate. What was once thought to be a red tape wasteland of opportunities, is turning out to be quite the temptress for all major corporations in the world. How did this transformation happen? How did Asian market become the darling of industries such as retail, FMCG, e-commerce, manufacturing, etc.?
We seek guidance on a regular basis when our surroundings become overwhelming. What if you are not able to get this guidance at the right time? Would you let your business, your work, or your life suffer? No. You can leverage the learnings of the stalwarts of business and society and force your way forward!
One of the largest Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies in the world increased the on-time deliveries by more than 60% while decreasing their resource cost by 18% and increasing their utilization by 30%. This increased the overall value (return on investment) of each resource to an amazing 58.5%. How did they do this?
Pharmaceutical industry has a traditional field agent management network where trade channel management is the primary sales pipeline along with being the distribution funnel for the industry. Channel management is of primary importance in this sector, unlike other growing industries.
People have talked about the Internet of Things (IoT) in diverse terms, but what is it? IoT is the interaction and exchange of data amongst various connected devices and entities over the Internet, which then function towards singular goals. It’s like having a virtual connected universe, where you customize almost all your electronic interactions.
Morgan Stanley predicts that 30% of Microsoft revenue would be purely from its cloud products by 2018. Moreover, Microsoft predicts that the revenue from their new-cloud licensing would be up to 1.8 times the revenue from non-cloud licensing. Technology Business Research (TBR) predicts that the global revenue from the cloud computing platform would be $167 Billion.
Being an entrepreneur offers a thrilling opportunity to create something of value—from scratch. Along with the highs of achievement come the times when you need a piece of advice to pull you out from the lows, keep you in check, and guide you to build a sustainable business. This is where the role of a mentor is critical.
Field service management and logistics management have grown, as an industry, at 18% CAGR. How has this part of the economic world been immune to global market fluctuations? It’s simple. Logistics movement is an integral part of the business model of every company. You have a product or a service, you must take it to the market or bring the customer to your market.
Do you also take a lot of time before finalizing a logistics management solutions provider? Do you wish to check the credibility of their performance, before taking the final call? Finally, do you wish timely and safe product distribution with real time visibility at the least possible cost?
Uber has had been on a topsy-turvy ride in the past few months that could earn it a lead in daily soap-operas such as the Days of Our Lives or All My Children. And now this. Their chief protagonist, Travis Kalanick has stepped down for an indefinite leave of absence. There is going to be a massive restructuring of the board and the vision of the company.
Logistics management has transformed itself in the past half of the decade backed by intense development in machine learning capabilities and data analytics. With the level of integration unleashed by Internet of Things, you can not only track the real-time location, speed, and fuel usage of your in-transit delivery vehicle, but also the calmness of the driver. Your real-time vehicle tracking can be covered by new-age routing and optimization software, whereas the calmness of the driver can be tracked through various wearable technology.
Reaffirming its positon on ‘Green Logistics’ on World Environment Day, LogiNext launches its campaign encouraging its US clients to take up the cause of effective corporate social responsibility. With the logistics management industry occupying a healthy 8% of US GDP, the companies have a unique opportunity to become the game-changers in environmental conservation.
Before the World Environment Day, the United States, as promised, pulled out of the Paris Agreement. Although this is no surprise, as Donald Trump has been laying the ground for it since his ascendancy. However, the ripples of the impending eventuality shook the senses of everyone concerned about Mother Earth.
Technology can be the springboard for your resource planning. You can use schedule planning and routing software to automate logistics movement in your company. Such solutions have the potential to bring down logistics and transportation costs, whether owned or leased. Efficient fleet management can boost your resource utilization, productivity, and profitability.
LogiNext extends its market capitalization with its latest breakthrough product, ‘Location Tracking SDK’ from ‘TrackNext’. After dominating the market with its route optimization, resource planning, and delivery tracking solutions in multiple industries like retail, e-commerce, transport, telecom, energy, pharma, and general services, LogiNext unleashes a standalone tracking application combining the insights of more than 200 global enterprise clients across 10 countries and counting.
The war is on. The lines are drawn. Retail and e-commerce have locked swords. Which side are you on? If these thoughts seem ominous to you, then don’t worry. There is peace ahead. Retail vs E-commerce is a new but heated battle. They are different, but not that different.
What to do in case of Ransomware attack? A Symantec’s report suggested that a modest Ransomware, or Cryptolocker, earned more than US$ 300,000 a month. A previous version of the Ransomware earned more than US$ 27 million. Most of these software authors create a chain of ‘Sales Professionals’ to further their reach.
Remember the viral video of Travis Kalanick from earlier this year where he is berating an Uber driver to take ownership of his own problem. Well we all know that video as the start of the derailment of Uber’s public relations. It’s easy to now imagine the company as being self-centered and culturally egoistic.
Internet-connected trackers use long-range networks or Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) to let companies track specific items throughout their delivery journeys by which estimated time of arrival for the shipment can be predicted.
White Paper: The Assumption Within AIDAS is Unsaid but Profound. This idea that the expectation stage of consumers can be generalized across industries and timelines, is prone to error. How does this generalization affect the decision flow of consumers? To answer this, I will help you look closely at these assumptions.
The pioneering company has done it before with the world’s first Electric Sedan, and they have been bettering their engines all this time. Can Elon’s claim and Tesla’s virtue bear fruit? Could we be witnessing the first electric semi-truck in the next two years?
The history of the ‘Current’, or ‘Energy Wars’ is known to all of us. Now, close to a century after Nikola Tesla’s brilliance, the company, inspired by his vision, is ready to push the envelope in the new ‘Energy Wars’!
At first, there was a question, ‘how to write a blog?’. Then the answer began with the concept that ‘Everyone Can Write’, and at the end of a very fruitful and creatively fulfilling day, that concept became a fact. “Writing is just another art of expression, it can be done as easily as you tap your feet or sway your body when you listen to your favorite music.”
We are pleased to invite to our interview platform, a man who is led by a vision, and who leads with innovation. Mr. Ekmeet Singh, Co-founder and CEO, Lendbox. Lendbox has become the biggest disruptor in the personal finance industry in recent times.
‘Industry Trends: Field Service Optimization’ is by far the most engaging piece of research I have come across in recent times. The concepts emphasized in the white paper have a little for everyone. The white paper answers some of the basic questions revolving around field service management.
LogiNext partners with what3words, an Aramex invested-in precision location identification company, to create the most disruptive field service optimization tool the world has ever seen.
New age technology can create a simulation assessment tool that can throw real business/work life problems and understand how candidates react to it, their problem-solving skills, strategy they adopt, what is the thinking process, how agile a candidate is, ability to manage pressure and so on so forth.
Brightest Logistics Automation Concepts for Success in Information Technology If you recall, in business history, the industrial revolution built its foundation on a level of automation using machines with assembly line functionalities. It cut down on the labor and time required to create complex products. This was a significant turn of events which led to […]
Innovation is the driving force behind progress and eventual success. To educate us more about innovation, technology, and growth we invite to our interview series the versatile investor and innovator, Mr. Jairaj Mashru. With his vision and intellect, Mr. Mashru has been a helpful guide to many entrepreneurs, seeing them off to profitability.
The game between customer perceptions and a company’s value proposition is an interesting one. At times, a company’s technology defines the customer’s perceptions, and at other times, the customer’s imagination drives company research.
Cue in the Justice League (2017). Even though Batman vs Superman left our mouths wide open; sometimes in awe and sometimes in surprise/confusion. Justice League promises to be bigger and better, as it now has ‘The Flash’. LogiNext has enhanced and boosted many such leagues in integrated ERPs around the world.
There is a clear and strong shift in the tide where several retail players have adopted the best features of e-commerce and turned themselves into omni-channel behemoths. What has triggered this change in fortunes for the average retailers?
LogiNext Founder Dhruvil Sanghvi Mentioned in FORBES 30 Under 30 Dhruvil’s eventful journey began from a vision, grew into a dream, took form as a venture, and achieved explosive growth as the biggest name in SaaS based field workforce optimization and logistics planning. Next time you feel that your logistics and field service planning needs […]
The next big thing, FaaS, is slated to cover more than 30% of total logistics management growing to $900 Billion by 2030. These numbers are striking enough to sit up and talk about the utilization of FaaS and how it would affect the fleet management systems already in place. How would it work?
We extended our global presence across multiple countries. You might find many top companies in Singapore, Indonesia, UAE, and United Kingdom using our logistics management services for real-time tracking options. We also raised our flags in some parts of Europe. As you might already know, we are more than prevalent in USA, North African region, and India.
How We Went From 5% to 25% Open Rate for 100k Subscribed Audience Ten years ago, each email held a mystery, a Pandora’s box of sorts, filled with surprises. Back then, information was sought after, hence, the delivery of such information was highly appreciated. Today, there is only one change. Information is no longer […]
What is ‘innovation’? You may have heard the term fly around in business meetings, but what does it really mean to the chief strategist of the company? Innovation means, approaching a problem or an inefficiency from a different angle or viewpoint to derive more value from it. To put it a straight war, innovation is to create or harness more of what you already have.
Retail field service and last mile delivery optimization has become the key driving force behind overall industry growth. Dhruvil Sanghvi enthralls with his insights at the Internet Retailing Expo, Indonesia. “If you factor in the added burden on the Cash on Delivery functionality, then it just necessitates real-time tracking”.
A logistics management software works toward ensuring greater control for the managers over daily ‘logistics solutions’ scenarios. There is still some way to go to achieve total visibility. Here are some product wishes that all Chief Supply Chain Officers would factor in their resolutions.
Subhasis Ghosh, Founder, Apex Group & Co-founder, Maritime World Services, In Conversation with LogiNext Today we speak with one of the thought leaders of the industry, Mr. Subhasis Ghosh. It gives us great pleasure to invite him to join our ‘thought leadership’ initiative at LogiNext. Mr. Ghosh comes with more than three decades in the supply […]
LogiNext Year End Review 2016 — Disrupting Logistics & Field Service Management Globally
All this has built up ‘The Last Jedi’! A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away… there were many instances of logistics management going haywire. Along came an up and coming stalwart of the free republic, LogiNext, who set things right. You can find a lot of references to the positive influence of the field workforce management experts in the Star Wars universe.
Karma Bhutia, CEO, Founder of iShippo in Conversation with LogiNext Today we speak with a stalwart in the e-commerce market, a person who led his company, iShippo, to the glory of being rated as one of the top 5 e-commerce start-ups by TechNewsToday, USA. All this in the span of just one and half […]
Your workforce is the face of your company and should be handled with care. A wrong foot with your logistic management system can turn into a disaster for your company’s image. You must be proactive while handling your field workforce efficiently to avoid any embarrassment or loss of business opportunities.
The Indian Technology Universe would overtake that of most developed nations. India might become, by 2020, a global leader in technology solutions. It is, as the theory suggests, inevitable.
Manage your operations on-the-go! Our new mobile app allows you to take charge of your business activities, regardless of where you are. Create orders and trips, manage running operations and resources, view live tracking and status, and increase your efficiency in real-time. LogiNext Mile™ enables you to start or end trips, assign orders or change order status as per your preferred time window.
Paytm backed LogiNext to replicate Alibaba’s strategy in logistics movement and field workforce optimization across India and Southeast Asia. Jack Ma’s processes coupled with LogiNext’s machine learning algorithms can make logistics management and last mile delivery optimization easy and trackable for all enterprises.
Suresh Bansal, Board Member, DTDC, In Conversation With LogiNext Here are some placards that show three things that you might already know about our esteemed guest. Yes, we are talking about Suresh Bansal, Director, DTDC India. We, at LogiNext, are privileged to have Mr. Bansal here with us to share his words of […]
How would Narendra Modi’s Currency Ban Affect Logistics in India Narendra Modi became a social media trend when he announced the currency ban covering the Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes. He also became the most discussed person within groups of small enterprise business owners. Narendra Modi’s pitch regarding the currency ban revolves around […]
Why is Jack Ma Investing in Indian Entrepreneurs? Jack Ma and his bandwagon have arrived. What could be more auspicious than celebrating dreams with a true visionary? Some of the leading entrepreneurs of the country would agree. Jack Ma has come to our country not just to invest, but to develop. He has developed […]
Blacks turning White. No, it is neither a fairness cream joke nor racial sarcasm. However, it is all about a sudden surgical strike by the incumbent government of India on the people with a room full of undeclared income or in simpler words “Black Money”.
In highly unorganized markets (for e.g. the logistics sector in the Asian Market) it becomes even more difficult to introduce technology solutions that would not only ease the workload on employees but also introduce some semblance of organizational workflow into a haphazard operational process.
Ever played the classic Grand Theft Auto? Ever made a drone drop in the game? That’s delivery route planning. Technology has caught up to make that experience much more sophisticated. You can actually pick and drop items using just your basic smartphone.
This is how Myntra used LogiNext’s cloud-based last mile delivery optimization solutions to make their e-commerce deliveries simpler, faster, and more accurate. Now Myntra can plan, allocate, direct, and track all their deliveries simply using LogiNext Mile. This is how Myntra, one of the top e-commerce companies in India, manages its logistics.
It’s time for us to say goodbye September while rejuvenating ourselves to buckle up for the upcoming Festive quarter. From Big Billion Day to Black Friday, everyone is preparing aggressively to serve the burgeoning demands of the market. But wait, did you know how we empowered our clients this September (2016)?
Ex- Reliance CIO, Partners with LogiNext for His New E-tail Venture In the era of smartphones, the delivery of needle to noodle is at a click of a button. Gone are those days when buying fresh vegetables meant traveling to the grocery markets kilometers away or waiting for the “sabziwala” who would come every morning […]
LogiNext wins Frost & Sullivan Best Logistics Participant of the Year 2016 2016, so far has been tremendous for us, achieving incredible milestones month on month. While disrupting the logi-tech space, LogiNext got one more in its kitty on 5th October 2016, when Frost & Sullivan honoured us with “2016 India Emerging Logistics Industry Participant […]
“Tale Of Success — Raw Pressery Serves it Fresh with LogiNext” Freshness is the key which defines the success of FMCG and F&B sectors. One such story is about Raw Pressery. A startup purely focused towards providing freshly pressed organic juice, catering to the super niche. Huge challenge that raw presser faced was, their freshly pressed juice […]
SSSShhhhhh… The HR Is Here… – By Arshiya Shaikh A call from an HR and phew! That kosher curve on his face disappears. Expression changes, eyes narrow, eyebrows stick to the eyes, dried throat and heartbeat down in the dumps. Leaning forward he murmurs “Yes”. As if he is certain that a call from HR is […]
LogiNext Disrupting Cold Supply Chain, Giving Raw Pressery an Edge Over Competitors Growing over US$20.6 billion in the current year, FMCG is the 4th largest Industry, contributing about 5% to the Indian GDP. A major portion of this sector deals into health and wellness consumer durables. It’s astonishing to see that Juice industry alone accounts […]
Netflix Originals, which has stormed the internet globally, Narcos accurately depicts the rise and fall of Medellin drug cartel across first two seasons which revolve around the drug lord Pablo Escobar and the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) trying to nab him down.
Workforce tracking technologies have been around for a while. Individuals on the field use their hand-held devices to log in project updates as and when they happen. It is just now that this process has done a back-ward integration to encompass almost all scheduling activities.
Big Guns are Shooting Heavy This Festive Season With the festive season on, all the big guns — ‘the e-commerce maestro’s’ are geared up to disrupt the e-tailing arena. Offer’s everywhere, big billion sales by Flipkart to great Indian sale by Amazon and further un-boxing diwali with Snapdeal, it’s a paradise for online shoppers. However, […]
ASEAN is a rapidly emerging market, highlighted in the Logistics Performing Index 2016 release by the World Bank. Evaluating these impeccable economic reforms in South-East countries, LogiNext has taken a step further to empower the enterprises here by offering a range of the best end-to-end SaaS based logistics management solution. With a strong presence in Singapore and Hongkong, we are swiftly expanding operations in Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.
At first there was the Ice Age; then the Neanderthals came along; followed by the decadence of the middle ages; and then came the Industrial Revolution which spawned generations upon generations of hardworking and dynamic individuals who set up industries like manufacturing, infrastructure, organized finance, and the like which essentially shaped the modern world.
Optimization is the latest word buzzing across all the industries and all the geographies. Ever wondered why is this keyword driving so much of business growth in recent times? A customer, whether business or individual, has multiple choices for every other product or service. In such a scenario, the cost and quality are the two major factors that influence the final purchase decision.
What Logistics has in Store? — An Extract from the Last Mile Fulfillment Event Logistics has always been an area of high interest to the bigger fishes of the industry. With Verizon taking over Fleetmatics and GE Transport acquiring ShipXpress, a lot of hustle happening in the logistics world. @dhruvilsanghvi along with other industry leaders […]
The last decade has been extremely crucial for the E-Commerce industry in India. We have briskly perceived major technological variations, undoubtedly due to the extremely dynamic nature of this industry. It’s been like yesterday when people assured that the retail industry would surely washout if it shifts to an E-commerce or e-store model.
Logistics is Back On The Top — ‘Verizon Acquired Fleetmatics’, ‘GE Acquired ShipExpress’, ‘MediaTek Investing in PayTM’ While August proved to be a month full of astounding achievements for LogiNext, 3 trending developments across the logistics and field service management ecosystem and mobile wallets are undeniably worth discerning. On one hand we saw two global player’s exiting the […]
5 ways where Real-Time Technology makes a Tangible Impact on Logistics and On-field Movement ‘Real-Time Technology’, ‘Big Data Analytics’ and the big daddy of jargons — ‘Internet of Things (IoT)’, aren’t really exotic anymore — companies have been at loggerheads trying to figure ways to milk them since 2013. So what are these buzzwords all about? Read on […]
We are seeing rising importance of the use of network graphs to depict big data based information sets. Especially, in Loginext’s case, the team needs to showcase thousands of nodes interconnected to each other to give a holistic view of connections between hubs.
According to NOVONOUS, “Indian logistic industry presently is of whooping $300 billion” and “will grow at 1.5–2 times the GDP” suggests Empirical Evidence. The influx of startups like mushroom surfacing the e-commerce array has added to the accelerated growth.
The courier and logistics market in India poses some interesting questions, especially if one is trying to find answers to these questions by means of technology. Leading the upscaling of a fast-growing logistics and field workforce optimization company, I got an excellent opportunity to solve the problems posed by this industry from a technology standpoint, some of them were as follows.
