Why Your Routing Software Has to Work for Your Drivers
Modern technology may seem like it can work miracles, such that having a route optimization solution is all you need to achieve delivery success. Although the right route planning ...
Handling Rapidly Changing Order Mixes with Food Distribution Software
SKU proliferation isn’t anything new, but it certainly feels like it’s ramped up considerably in food and beverage distribution in just the last few years. The last few years have ...
Why Strategic Planning Is Going to Be Key to Delivery Success in 2024
Note: This article was originally published in 2022, and has been updated to include new information and insights. Do you ever look at your delivery schedule and wonder why you’re ...
Why Reducing Costs Is One of the Top Last Mile Logistics Challenges
Studies have shown that businesses that fail to optimize final mile delivery can experience a real drop in profits over time. This is alarming, but hardly surprising. After all, in...
Dispatch and Routing Software Benefits by Industry
Businesses running fleets, regardless of the industry they belong to, typically spend a huge chunk of their budget on fuel costs and driver wages. In fact, one study showed that th...
5 Best Practices for Boosting B2B Delivery Efficiency
Things change faster than ever in B2B delivery these days. Once upon a time, your typical beverage distribution plan involved delivering the same product mix to the same customers ...
50% of Customers Blame Poor Experiences on Lack of Communication
Sometimes, last mile deliveries can feel a little bit like an example of Murphy’s Law: whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. And there’s a lot that can go wrong: late deliveries, e...
How the Right Delivery Route Planner Impacts Efficiency
Delivery businesses are facing more and more pressure from customers these days. Enterprises are exerting all their efforts to fulfill orders as quickly as possible while increasin...
What’s the Future of Parcel Shipping?
Drones. Blockchain. Autonomous vehicles. We’ve been hearing about how technologies like these are going to revolutionize delivery for years now. And there’s no doubt that trends li...
How to Improve Deliveries with Last Mile Logistics Tracking
In the modern supply chain, the last mile is generally the least efficient, often accounting for more than a quarter percent of total delivery costs. Several factors contribute to ...
How Segmenting Your Communications Improves Last Mile Efficiency
Technology has gone a long way towards demystifying the last mile in the last few years. For decades, last mile deliveries were something of a black box, with virtually no meaningf...