How Delivery Businesses Approached This Year's Holiday Season
Last week, DispatchTrack released its annual Last Mile Holiday Perspective, exploring how logistics leaders prepared for the 2023 holiday season and what their expectations are for...
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...
Leveling up Customer Delivery Experience w/ DispatchTrack
Customer delivery expectations have never been higher—especially as economic headwinds make consumers and businesses alike more particular about where they spend their money. So it...
5 Best Practices for Perfecting Proof of Delivery
Great deliveries require getting the little things right. Whether you’re delivering pallets of shingles to construction sites or distributing fresh produce, you need serious attent...
What Is Strategic Route Planning?
When it comes to different kinds of routing, the most common distinction you’re likely to encounter is static vs. dynamic. If you’re a business that delivers mostly to consumers, o...
What Is Route Optimization?
No one needs to tell delivery businesses how important it is to have efficient routes. Fuel and driver pay are two of the biggest expenses that most fleet operators grapple with, s...
SaaS vs On-Prem Software: Which Is Better for Last Mile Logistics?
For businesses that have always used on-premise software deployments, it’s easy enough to stick with the mantra, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” After all, deploying software so...
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...
5 Tactics for Simplifying Returns in Building Supplies Delivery
Cost pressures on building suppliers are more intense than ever—and that’s especially true when it comes to delivery and return management. Getting the right goods to the right pla...
Are You Still Struggling with Map Updates?
Last mile delivery is a challenge without the right technology—but businesses have been making it work for many years using whatever tools that they happened to have access to. The...
How Tire Distributors Can Grapple with the SKU Explosion
The number of SKUs that your average tire distributor has to deal with has grown exponentially in the last two decades. According to one report in 2019, 80% of the typical tire dis...