What to Look for in Furniture and Appliance Delivery Software
The game has changed more than once for furniture and appliance delivery in the past few years. Customer expectations are as stringent as ever, but at the same time the larger supp...
How Are Global Standards for Delivery Experience Changing?
The challenges that delivery businesses face in getting the right goods to the right customer at the right time are hyper-local. Routers need to navigate vehicle access, one-way st...
Why 62% of Logistics Leaders Expect Higher Costs This Year
In a recent DispatchTrack survey of more than 100 logistics professionals, fuel costs (59% of respondents) and inflation (46%) topped the list of current challenges for 2023. So it...
Getting the Most out of Delivery Route Planning Software
In the past, customers didn’t expect much from the average retailer in terms of final mile delivery service. They may not have been thrilled with long lead times and uncertainty, b...
Pitfalls to Avoid When Selecting Building Products Logistics Software
There’s any number of reasons why building products logistics is a challenge. Labor shortages in the construction industry make job schedules a lot tighter and put a lot more press...
What to Look for in a Construction Material Delivery App
Delivering construction material can be chaotic at the best of times. Your clients are on tight timelines, and they often want their deliveries on same-day or next-day turnarounds,...
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...