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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
How to Scale Your Delivery Processes in Building Supplies Delivery
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...
When’s the Last Time You Did a Route Analysis?
Many ops managers and routing specialists approach route analysis with the same gleeful anticipation as an upcoming root canal. Throw in a few “what ifs” and you have the perfect r...
Is Good Enough Routing Really Good Enough?
One of the surprisingly common refrains we hear from delivery organizations we talk to is that their route optimization is “good enough.” In other words, they know it’s not on the ...
Avoid Derailed Deliveries: Pick the Right Last Mile Logistics Software
The only thing worse than choosing logistics software is not choosing logistics software. In spite of all the technological advances made in the world of logistics, there are still...
Smarter Route Optimization Solved: The 2025 Routing Software Guide
When it comes to last mile deliveries, routes are at the bedrock of everything you do. The efficiency of your routes determines how quickly you’ll be able to turn around orders, ho...
Delivery Management Software Buying Guide
There’s plenty of advice on the internet about how to purchase delivery management software, from software review sites that offer reviews and tips to opinion pieces in publication...