When it comes to sustainability in logistics—particularly in the last mile—it can be difficult to separate the signal from the noise. Sure, there are plenty of opinion pieces and s...
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 ...
The holiday shopping season seems to be creeping up earlier and earlier every year. Even with the disruptions caused by the pandemic in the past few years, consumer demand around t...
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 ...
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...
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...
Territory planning: it’s a crucial part of successful delivery and sales operations for many businesses (especially wholesalers and distributors), but the phrase probably sounds li...
When logistics professionals think about what-if scenarios, they may be more likely to think of them in connection with processes that model the entire supply chain, not just the l...
A few years ago, it was a popularly cited figure that 70% of digital transformations fail to achieve their goals. It’s easy to imagine that that number has probably gotten a lot le...
