What Is Dispatching?
Dispatching is the heart of logistics. And for decades, it has also been an art. Traditionally, dispatchers used personal knowledge to plan delivery routes, turning their familiari...
Useful content for last mile logistics operators
Dispatching is the heart of logistics. And for decades, it has also been an art. Traditionally, dispatchers used personal knowledge to plan delivery routes, turning their familiari...
The best delivery route planner app is in the eye of the beholder. If you’re delivering pallets of lumber to busy job sites or installing washing machines in people’s homes, your i...
Most customers dread scheduling service calls. The stereotypical timeline for a repair person is an eight hour time window for which the technician is still either late or comicall...
According to Gartner, 80% of organizations now expect to compete primarily on customer experience. If you’ve been paying attention to trends across the business world the past few ...
Delivering the last mile is not only costly, it’s also complex. Managing a delivery fleet presents dozens of difficulties, from meeting rising customer expectations to squeezing in...
Dispatching HVAC services is an unusual mix of routine and emergency. A driver/service technician might have a handful of planned stops for the day helping keep construction plans ...
Since their founding in 1976, Sherman's’ goal has been to "make sure [their] customers are really happy they chose Sherman's."
Inventory management isn’t easy—and neither is shipping. So when you start to think about the two of them together, the complexity only increases. Unfortunately, that’s the reality...
If you look at the food delivery software page on Capterra, you get quite an odd mix. Many of the options, like Hunger Rush and Toast, are POS systems with capabilities for managin...
Onfleet has been described as “Uber for delivery,” but when you’re managing complex last mile delivery operations, is that really what you want?
Whether you’re managing all of your truck dispatching manually and looking to digitize your operations, or you’ve already got dispatching software and you see room for improvement,...