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...
How to Deal with Extreme Weather Delays in Last Mile Logistics
Disruptions to the last mile delivery process are nothing new—logistics professionals have had to find ways to deal with last-minute headaches and snafus for as long as there have ...
5 Essential Steps to Master Proof of Delivery
If you could optimize just one of the many cascading steps that go into getting a package from online order to doorstep and save 90% of the time spent on customer inquiries, why wo...
5 Best Practices for Handling Deliveries During Peak Season
While absolute volumes are hard to predict, peak season deliveries are always well above monthly averages—sometimes explosively so. Handling deliveries at higher volumes leads to o...
What Is Strategic Route Planning?
Efficient routing is the foundation for good delivery operations. But should that routing be static, dynamic, or a hybrid of the two?
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?
The hype cycles around technology can be fascinating things. For years, conventional wisdom has been tilting away from on-premise (on-prem) software deployments and towards SaaS—be...
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...