5 Ways to Reduce Shipping Costs
Going into 2024, 86% of logistics professionals expected fuel and other operating costs to increase this year, and 4 in 10 planned to raise fees as a result. Heading into 2025, we’...
Just In Time Delivery Definition: How Does It Impact Last Mile Delivery?
"Just in time" versus "just in case" feels like a tale as old as time as far the supply chain is concerned. In fact, the debate is only about 50 years old at this point. What began...
5 Keys to Successful Third Party Delivery Platform Integration
When people think of third party delivery platforms, they might be thinking mostly of food delivery services like ChowNow and UberEats. However, delivery businesses that deal with ...
How Is AI Changing Delivery Fleet Management?
The pace of announcements about AI in logistics is only going to keep accelerating. Recently it was Uber Freight’s AI-powered TMS garnering headlines and Gartner’s prediction that ...
What Is Outbound Logistics, and How Do You Optimize It?
Let’s talk for a minute about the “7 r’s of logistics”: getting the right product, to the right customer, in the right quantity, in the right condition, to the right place, at righ...
How Can You Get the Most out of Your Last Mile Service Providers?
If you can’t fulfill all of your delivery orders with the fleet capacity that you currently have, then you must be doing something right. At the very least, you’re drumming up busi...
Fleet Dashboards Should Provide 360° Visibility—Even for 3rd Parties
There are few things more powerful than a brand. When a prospective customer needs a new widget and the first thing they do is type the name of your company into Google, you’ve ach...
The Hidden Cost of Late Delivery—And How to Avoid It
According to more than 60% of consumers, the best thing about a great delivery experience is arriving on time. In business-to-business use cases, that number is probably even highe...
What Is Proof of Delivery?
When FedEx recently launched picture proof of delivery in Malaysia, they felt it was newsworthy enough to tell the world about it. That should tell us two things: 1) that providing...