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Logistimo is a hosted web service for supply chain management. Its cloud engine is accessible via basic mobile phones and web browsers -- uniquely positioning customers to penetrate resource-poor settings of emerging markets.
The highly configurable service offers customers the ability to capture and share data in a simple, low-cost way. Real-time quality information, which is accurate, complete, and timely, leads to better logistics decisions -- optimizing performance and minimizing operating costs.
LogiMobile
LogiMobile is a phone-based business tool for sales agents, retailers, remote inventory managers, and Base-of-Pyramid entrepreneurs. The app transforms basic low-cost mobile handsets that are already prolific throughout the developing world into point-of-sale devices, order management tools, transportation dispatchers, all-purpose alert appliances, and more. This allows people to collaborate off-grid and leverage robust decision support.
What's more, LogiMobile supports the vast majority of device types, can transmit over any wireless carrier network, and its seamless multi-channel support lets users work in Internet, SMS, and Offline modes.
LogiWeb
LogiWeb is a browser-based management dashboard, tailored for supply chain managers serving emerging markets. As a cloud-hosted service, it requires no additional hardware or product downloads. LogiWeb can be configured and deployed rapidly, with all training materials and support mechanisms available to a user through a standard internet connection.
LogiWeb customers get real-time visibility to their orders, inventory levels, stock-outs, consumption, and transaction history from throughout their collection or distribution network. Leveraging these real-time data, the service further provides customers with targeted and timely decision support, such as automated demand forecasts and inventory optimization to enhance supply chain performance.
Operational Benefits
Every customer's needs are unique. So we made Logistimo configurable to meet a broad spectrum of design requirements; now customers across industries gain deep visibility into quality, actionable data. This lays a foundation for automation, optimization, maximized throughput, channel integration, and analytics for data-driven strategic decisions. Practical advantages of deploying Logistimo include:
- Lower technological hurdle improving access to new markets and partners
- Improve forecasting using real-time point-of-sale data from the last mile
- Reliable coordination of actors in the supply chain
- Ability to measure partners, identify areas of improvement, and improve relationships
- Ability to measure product margins, regional variations, and profitability
Technology Difference
Our offering is different from enterprise products requiring expensive hardware or lengthy, uncertain, and costly consultation. Logistimo is a simple, flexible, scalable, affordable, rapidly deployable solution using only basic phones and browsers.
- Simplicity: LogiMobile uses menus, lists, numeric entry, and barcode scans for navigation and data capture. Semi-literate users can therefore generate quality data after only 15 minutes of training. The app works seamlessly across Internet, SMS and Offline modes. Similarly, the intuitive LogiWeb dashboard is simple to use, providing rich visualizations such as maps, graphs, charts, and tables. One need not be technology-savvy to deploy an enterprise solution or join the mobile-web marketplace.
- Flexibility: The service is highly configurable to meet the operational needs of a variety of industry verticals -- from healthcare to retail to disaster response. Moreover, it can be used to record inventory for any warehouse, stockroom, clinic, retail shop, orchard, classroom, refugee camp, truck, bicycle, backpack, or bullock cart. Configurations are managed online, and the technology works with varying mobile communication channels, such that regions with different wireless infrastructures can be deployed simultaneously.
- Affordability: Implementations do not require expensive consultants, developers, or IT purchases. The subscription service is deliberately priced to meet the needs of entrepreneurs and small businesses working in the developing world, and an equal bargain for multinational corporations or development agencies.
- Scalability: All technology decisions have considered scale to millions of users -- hence the cloud architecture and common handset support. There is no additional fixed cost or delay associated with scaling to 100x users tomorrow, or 1000x by next week.
- Velocity: Logistimo can be deployed within days with a rapid "time-to-value" measured in months rather than years. This supports rapid prototyping and testing of business models at the lowest possible cost. There is no longer a need to engineer systems from the ground-up, or slog through uncertain software development cycles.
