The use of specific software in your consultancy or agency can bring benefits on several levels.
First of all, the most obvious and evident one, which is the own and internal benefit of the business structure. If we use tools that can streamline daily procedures, we can work more efficiently and comfortably.
In this way, we can increase productivity, reduce costs and keep the staff happier by reducing their workload.
After Delivery Hero bought the digital home delivery platform Glovo in 2020, the company has informed that in order to compete in the Guatemalan market it intends to execute an ambitious investment plan.
Following the reform of government agreement 17-2020, the entry into force of the regulation requiring passenger and cargo transport units to take out civil liability insurance was delayed for one year in Guatemala.
Arguing that the decision is due to the commitment of the search of the profitability, from November 8 the Spanish company of transport by application will stop offering its services in Santo Domingo and Panama City.
As a result of a constant process of analysis of the markets in which it operates, the company has made the strategic decision to stop its service in both capitals, the company said in a statement.
In a transaction valued at around $272 million, German company Delivery Hero acquired Glovo's operations in eight Latin American countries, including Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama and the Dominican Republic.
Delivery Hero strengthens its position in Latin America, adding Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala to its existing presence, and further expanding its existing operations in Argentina, Panama and the Dominican Republic, the German business group reported.
After the government of Guatemala issued new regulations, the Municipality of the country's capital decided to restrict the circulation of heavy vehicles from Monday to Friday, from 5:00 to 9:00 and from 16:30 to 21:00.
Hugo App, a platform for home delivery services, is one of the companies that accelerated its growth due to the mobility restrictions that have been decreed in the countries of the region because of the health crisis.
In order to contain the spread of covid-19, governments in Central America have decreed mandatory quarantines and restricted the movement of consumers at certain times. Faced with this new commercial reality, companies dedicated to home delivery of products have increased their income considerably.
Because of the restrictions on movement decreed in Central American countries, orders in applications dedicated to home delivery have increased considerably.
The services of electronic delivery platforms such as Hugo and Uber Eats, among others, are among the few sectors that will be able to circulate in El Salvador after Nayib Bukele announced on March 21 the home quarantine, which will last 30 days.
Next month it will begin operating in the 10, 14 and 4 zones of the capital, an application that will allow its customers to rent electric scooters.
The application by means of which the electric scooters or scooters can be rented is called Bird, and the project that will start with 100 units will be available to the public from December 2019.
The growing tendency to lease rather than buy, not only real estate and cars, but also services and products, is forcing traditional companies to reinvent themselves completely, not to be left out of the new digital and collaborative economy.
Although in Central America this trend is not yet as marked as in other regions of the world, companies that want to prevail in the future must pre-empt it and begin to redefine their long-term strategies, considering these changes that while leading the new generations, are not alien to other age segments of the population.
With the aim of expanding the market, applications in Guatemala are no longer exclusively dedicated to food delivery, as they propose strategies with supermarkets, clothing stores, pharmacies and shoe stores.
The companies participating in the Guatemalan market agree that there is a great demand for home delivery services, as the complicated transit situation in Guatemala City forces customers to seek alternatives.
The very low-cost system that allows people to tele transport from one place to another will have to pay an additional fee to subsidize the old motorized transport system called taxi.
EDITORIAL
Jorge Cobas Gonzalez
Founder of CentralAmericaData
(A glimpse into the future...)
In this year 2119, the digital application Teletrans, already widely spread all over the world, is installed on the cell phone and allows the person holding it in the hand to indicate on the map the place to go, transporting it almost instantaneously to that destination. The cost of the trip is one cent of a dollar per kilometer, paid through the global system of digital money.
The same free market concept that led to a concession of a taximeter plate of almost zero original cost to reach a value of tens of thousands of dollars, must now be applied to the irruption of collaborative transport services.
Although new jobs will emerge, technological changes will have a strong impact in the Central American region, where there is a high proportion of jobs with a high risk of automation.
According to forecasts made by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), in 2018 it was estimated that 75% of workers in Guatemala and El Salvador are in high-risk automationjobs. In Costa Rica the proportion is 68%, in Panama and Nicaragua 65%, and in the Dominican Republic 62%.
The Uber technological platform, which in Central America is currently transporting people and food, is planning to expand its service offerings to the freight transport business.
Uber and Uber Eats, platforms for transporting people and delivering prepared food, respectively, are already operating in the countries of the region. However, the U.S. company's new bet for Latin America is to use Uber Freight to transport cargo.
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