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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
In logistics, strategic route planning is essential for maintaining efficiency and profitability.
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...
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...
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...
Every year, customer expectations around delivery change at least a little bit. A recent study showed that nearly 70% of people wouldn’t reorder from a company that failed to deliv...
Dropping a couple of stacks of 2x4s and a case of joist hangers at a home builder’s site is all in a day’s work, but what happens when you need to do that for hundreds of sites—and...
