How AI in the Supply Chain Will Impact Delivery in the Next Year
While the ultimate promise of AI is seductive—herds of autonomous delivery vehicles loaded by robots roaming far and wide under an umbrella of drones clutching packages—as with mos...
Last Mile Delivery Solutions: Why SaaS Is the Right Choice
Last mile delivery is such a crucial part of the fulfillment that in the last few years it’s become more and more pervasive in common parlance. Your average consumer knows—or think...
Why the Status Quo in Building Supplies Delivery Isn't Good Enough
If you’re a building supplies distributor, your world is changing rapidly. Two big trends—digitization and consolidation—are sweeping through the building supplies industry and swe...
The Best Route Planner Apps Have These 5 Features
Route planner apps are crucial parts of the last mile delivery ecosystem—-but they’re not all created equal. Different route planners will be designed for different use cases, and ...
How Are You Optimizing Your Shuttle Routes?
Raise your hand if the answer to the question posed in the title was “I don’t know” or some variation on “we’re not.” For most delivery businesses, routing shuttles from distributi...
7 Best Practices for Last Mile Delivery Optimization
For a lot of businesses, step one is to figure out that your last mile delivery process isn’t working the way you want it to. Step two is to find a way to optimize it. Step one can...
5 Keys to Reducing Costs in Building Materials Distribution
Construction material costs may be starting to stabilize at last—though some pockets of volatility certainly remain—but that doesn’t change the basic dilemma faced by distributors ...
Strategic Route Planning with DispatchTrack [Video]
In logistics, strategic route planning is essential for maintaining efficiency and profitability.
Is Your Data Hiding Profits? Last Mile Delivery Analytics Can Help
Last mile delivery analytics form the basis of data-driven decision making in last mile operations. You can’t optimize what you can’t measure, and you can’t improve processes witho...
DispatchTrack Case Study: Morris Furniture [Video]
Morris Furniture Company was founded in Dayton, Ohio with a simple idea: offer quality furniture at a reasonable price with superior service. They’ve prided themselves on making ho...
How to Cut Costs and Boost Loyalty with Smarter Last Mile Delivery
Last mile delivery is about a lot more than just cheap, fast order fulfillment. It’s about a lot more than the Amazon effect, or the e-commerce boom. It’s about managing complexity...