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NBMDA members: Cut through last mile delivery chaos with the right solution

There's no room for errors when delivering to busy build sites and construction yards. Identify the right inventory, build smart routes, and deliver within the precise time window—every time.

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Supporting the Last Mile in Building Materials

  • On time with every delivery: Construction sites keep tight schedules and builders are anxiously waiting. Ensure consistent and realiable on-time deliveries.
  • Digitized from end to end: Support and inform your team and your customers throughout the entire journey with a fully digitized last mile delivery solution.
  • Customer centric experiences: Offer personalized communications, real-time visibility, and comprehensive services to your customers.

Essential last mile capabilities for NBMDA members:

Mixed fleet support
Mixed fleet support

Find the right balance of internal and external 3rd party carrier options to ensure on time delivery and coverage to all build and construction sites.

Delivery scheduling
Scheduling

Flexible time window options to schedule deliveries when customers need it down to the minute. Coordinate customer schedules with real-time driver availability, vehicle type, available capacity, and service time.

Digitized POD
Digital proof of delivery

Gather signatures, take photos, scan barcodes, verify completed services, and validate deliveries–all from a connected driver mobile app.

Next Day routing
Same day/next day routing

Urgent and last minute orders are prioritized for immediate shipment with real time communication and coordination between driver, dispatcher, and customer.

Fast and easy adjustments
Real-time adjustments

Late orders, new unit counts, scheduling changes, and other modifications are optimized in minutes with updates sent to both customer and delivery team.

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Route Optimization
  • Import orders directly form your ERP/POS or CSV files.
  • Quickly filter and create highly optimized routes.
  • Drag-and-drop to make changes.
Delivery Execution
  • Auto import routes and orders.
  • Turn by turn navigation for field reps.
  • Scan items on/off truck.
  • Digital POD with photos, signatures, time stamps and notes.
Customer Experience
  • Full lifecycle customer communications.
  • Automatic notification before delivery, day of, route start and one stop away.
  • Automated and live two way communications.

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For more than 75 years, BMD has been supplying lumber yards, dealers, home centers and hardware stores with the finest quality building products. They bring the materials, products, services, and expertise their customers need together under one roof across multiple nationwide brands.

The Challenge: Scaling up Last Mile Processes

For many years, they had relied upon an in-house, proprietary software for route optimization and capturing proof of delivery. But as they continued to grow their business and acquire new brands under their umbrella, they began to see that their existing solution wouldn’t scale. They needed a true technology partner who could understand their requirements and work with them to deploy a more scalable solution.

Specifically, they needed a partner who could help them streamline and digitize processes that had historically been done manually, like capturing proof of delivery at the jobsite. That’s where DispatchTrack came in.

The Solution: An End-to-End Last Mile Platform

By partnering with DispatchTrack, BMD got a SaaS platform that was built to increase efficiency and optimization at scale for building material suppliers and delivery providers. We worked closely with them during the implementation process to ensure that they had the features they needed to streamline their processes and delight their customers.  

Our solution offered:

  • Support for pallet scanning via bluetooth
  • Time-stamped, geostamped proof of delivery via digital pictures, signatures, and notes—all available in the cloud
  • Fast, accurate, scalable route optimization that could handle same-day and next-day deliveries
  • Configurable customer communications throughout the entire delivery lifecycle

Pallet scanning was an important requirement for BMD, and while DispatchTrack didn't offer that feature at the time, we worked closely with BMD to understand their requirements and build out functionality that would meet their needs and slot in with their existing workflows.

The Results: Reduced Cost-to-Ship, Improved Customer Experience

Once DispatchTrack was able to offer pallet scanning to BMD's specifications, BMD was able to improve order accuracy, speed up picking and loading, and decrease the amount of time spent at the delivery site. At the same time, they were able to reduce the total number of disputed payments and get paid for their deliveries more quickly thanks to DispatchTrack’s proof of delivery functionality. With the ability to instantly access pictures of completed orders and email them to customers, they’re even able to realize revenue on orders where they might not have gotten paid without photographic proof of delivery. 

Meanwhile, DispatchTrack also helped BMD to improve the delivery experience they offered customers by enabling drivers to reduce the time they spent at the job site—freeing up space for the next delivery so their customers could keep their timelines on track. 

  • Quicker time-to-revenue
  • Reduced payment disputes 
  • Faster, more accurate picking, loading, and delivery
  • Reduced delivery and distribution costs

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