Locus

Locus is a delivery route planning and dispatch platform based in India. Retailers, consumer goods companies, and delivery firms use it to plan routes, assign drivers, and manage dispatch across owned and outsourced delivery fleets. The platform optimizes routes against more than 180 real-world constraints, like delivery windows, vehicle capacity, and driver shifts, and a feature called ShipFlex allocates orders across multiple carriers automatically. In 2024, Locus added an AI assistant called Mycroft that answers planning questions in plain language. Locus reports it has powered over 1.5 billion deliveries across more than 30 countries. Ingka Group, the largest IKEA franchise operator, acquired Locus and runs it as an independent product. It connects to order management and warehouse systems through APIs.

This fits a retailer or distributor running its own delivery fleet, or mixing owned trucks with outside carriers, and helps most when route planning is still done by hand or with a basic mapping tool. A workable starting point is route planning for one region or delivery hub before rolling out company-wide. Locus does not publish public prices; expect a custom quote based on delivery volume and the modules you need, and treat any figure you find as a planning estimate only. The main things to watch are the Ingka Group ownership, since IKEA's plans for the product could shape its roadmap, and the setup work needed to feed Locus clean, current fleet and order data.