What Are the Top Machine Learning Use Cases in Logistics?
According to a recent report from IDC, the top 2 business objectives for using AI are operational efficiency (39%) and improved customer experience (38%). Given how trendy AI and m...
Why 70% of Supply Chain Leaders Are Still Experiencing Challenges
If you’ve been listening to reports coming out throughout 2023, you might have gotten the impression that the supply chain crisis of the past few years has been significantly easin...
AI in Logistics: 5 Real-World Applications
ChatGPT hasn’t taken over the world yet, and human delivery drivers still haven’t been phased out in favor of autonomous vehicles with sophisticated computer vision capabilities—bu...
How to Boost Visibility Between Sales, Merchandising, and Delivery
Let’s say you’re a beverage distributor, and because of a traffic closure outside your control you're about to wind up delivering a number of cases to one of your top customers sig...
The Top 5 Building Products & Supplies Delivery Challenges
For a lot of building and construction material suppliers, dealing with volatility is just table stakes. A year ago, when the cost of lumber was sky high, businesses across the ent...
Optimize Pickup Logistics with Building Products Logistics Software
It’s the middle of the morning at your building materials warehouse. Your delivery dashboard is showing mostly on-time deliveries with a few exceptions that you’ll want to check up...
What Is White Glove Delivery, and How Can it Boost Customer Loyalty?
Not every shipment is created equal in logistics. The modes, rates, and classes of freight vary, but there can also be other logistical layers involved. Some loads are fragile or e...
5 Customer Communication Best Practices in Building Materials Delivery
When your customers are trying to coordinate a delivery of parts with the arrival of the team that’s meant to do an installation with those parts, the stakes are high for deliverin...
Can Delivery Optimization Help Food Wholesalers Fight Inflation?
The massive food price increases seen over the course of 2022 and 2023 haven’t been making headlines as frequently in the past couple months—but that doesn’t mean their impact isn’...
How to Overcome Large Fleet Delivery Challenges
For complex distribution networks involving large fleets, there are some challenges that seem to grow exponentially as your fleet increases in size. Anyone who runs even a single t...
Frequently Asked Questions About Food and Beverage Route Planning
For too long, food and beverage route planning has been a process that relied on knowledge that’s trapped in the heads of planners, domain experts, and consultants. The logic behin...