The Czech logistics firm DoDo has been making inroads into the parcel delivery market in this record-setting holiday season without using a logistics warehouse. In fact, the company’s majority owner Michal Mensik told Hospodarske noviny its strategy is based on not losing time by bringing goods to a staging area. “The biggest problem right now is caused by the depots that some of our competitors use. They can only fit a limited volume of goods so they might not be able to be make it by Christmas,” he said. DoDo is able to employ the no-shed strategy by focusing only on large urban areas that it can serve without extra real estate. He said that the software his company invested constantly tracks the position of their couriers as well as their driving style, the amount of fuel each car uses and uses the data to plan each trip more efficiently. Dodo currently employs 1,200 couriers and has recently doubled its fleet to 600 cars. Its turnover of CZK 200 million from 2019 should grow to CZK 500 million in 2020.
