ICYMI: Bringing Clarity the Last Mile
Visibility for Food Distributors in 2025 Visibility into your delivery operations as a food distributor might sound simple, but in reality it’s anything but. Gaining clarity into w...
5 Key Steps You’ll Be Glad You Took When a Food Recall Hits
Listeria. Salmonella. Lead. These are things you really don’t want in your kielbasa or your peanut butter, but with food recalls reaching a five year high last year distributors ne...
3 Ways Food Distributors Can Prepare Their Supply Chains for Recalls
Food recalls in 2024 were triple what they were in 2022. That number is eye-popping to begin with, but it’s even more startling when you realize that the average cost to the manufa...
What's the Best Food Delivery Software for Distributors?
If you look at the food delivery software page on Capterra, you get quite an odd mix. Many of the options, like Hunger Rush and Toast, are POS systems with capabilities for managin...
Achieving Smarter Fleet Management in Food Distribution
Fleet management is all about making sure you have the right assets—in the right condition—to ensure successful last mile deliveries. When it comes to food distribution, this can b...
DispatchTrack Launches DispatchTrack for Food Distribution
Over the past decade-plus, DispatchTrack has made its name across multiple industries by solving difficult problems in last mile logistics. We were pioneers in raising the global s...
5 Best Practices for Routing in Food Distribution
Routing isn’t the hardest part of being a successful food distributor—but it probably comes pretty close. Route engineers agonize over how best to make sure that each customer gets...
5 Food Logistics Technology Trends for 2025
The world of food distribution can sometimes move at a breakneck pace—with new supply chain challenges, SKU proliferation, and changing consumer demands all conspiring to change th...
5 Last Mile Considerations for Growing Your Food Distribution Business
There’s no magic bullet when it comes to growing a business. It takes a mix of hard work and luck, and it involves a special set of risks and challenges—especially when it comes to...
How Food Distribution Software Should Empower Different Functions
As a food distributor, getting deliveries right and delighting your customers doesn’t start and stop with your delivery drivers. It’s a team effort that pulls in people and process...
Frequently Asked Questions About Food and Beverage Route Planning
For too long, food and beverage route planning has been a process that relied on knowledge that’s trapped in the heads of planners, domain experts, and consultants. The logic behin...