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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
When logistics professionals think about obstacles to going green in the last mile, a number of hurdles probably come to mind: accurately measuring CO2 output, finding electric veh...
