Research: What Are the Top Last Mile Sustainability Strategies?
According to DispatchTrack’s recent Last Mile Sustainability Perspective, which polled more than 140 logistics professionals on how they’re thinking about sustainability, 8 out of ...
Predictions: What's on the Last Mile Sustainability Agenda in 2023?
The following is part of a series of posts about DispatchTrack’s point of view on the trends that will drive last mile delivery in 2023 and beyond. This week, we’ll be discussing t...
Why Are Just 39% of Companies Tracking Their Green Logistics Efforts?
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...
Handling Rapidly Changing Order Mixes with Food Distribution Software
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 ...
Why Strategic Planning Is Going to Be Key to Delivery Success in 2024
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 ...
5 Best Practices for Boosting B2B Delivery Efficiency
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 ...
What’s the Future of Parcel Shipping?
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...
How Segmenting Your Communications Improves Last Mile Efficiency
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...
How Efficiency and Sustainability Go Together in the Last Mile
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...
How to Speed Up Sales and Delivery Territory Planning
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...
How Can Fast, AI-Powered What-If Scenarios Impact Last Mile Logistics?
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...