What is Locus?
Locus is an enterprise logistics platform that automates dispatch planning, route optimization, and last mile delivery. It coordinates in house, contracted, and third party fleets and integrates with existing TMS, OMS, WMS, and ERP systems through an API first design. The platform serves retail chains, ecommerce, FMCG, 3PLs, and big and bulky shippers handling high volume operations.
Why Locus works
Large delivery operations lose money to inefficient routes, manual dispatch decisions, and slow hub processing. Locus replaces those manual steps by analyzing more than 180 variables per dispatch and automating sorting, scanning, and picklisting in the hub, which improves on time rates and cuts customer service contacts about delivery status.
Locus features
- Dispatch planning. Routes are optimized across 180+ operational variables to raise on time delivery performance.
- Hub operations automation. Sorting, scanning, and picklisting are automated to cut warehouse handling time.
- Delivery orchestration. Carrier selection and contract management are automated across in house and third party fleets.
- Capacity management. Demand and fleet capacity are forecast so dispatchers right size resources in advance.
- Track and trace. Driver apps and tracking pages give shippers and end customers real time visibility into delivery status.
- Analytics. Performance dashboards surface route, carrier, and hub inefficiencies that operations leaders can act on.
Who Locus is for
- Heads of logistics at national retail chains coordinating omnichannel fulfillment from store, dark store, and DC origins.
- Operations leaders at 3PLs that need a single dispatch system across mixed in house and contracted fleets.
- FMCG and CPG manufacturers running daily distribution to thousands of retail accounts who need route consolidation.
- Big and bulky retailers handling appointment based delivery of furniture or appliances who need scheduled capacity planning.
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