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6 Best Practices for Planning Delivery Routes
When Victor's crew left your dock at 7:30, the day looked good. They had fresh coffee and a sheaf of delivery orders still faintly warm from the laser printer. The sun was shining ...
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Overcoming the Top 5 Last Mile Delivery Challenges
In 2023, last mile delivery accounted for 53% of total logistics costs. Not only is that number fairly staggering, it also represents an increase of 12 percentage points for 41% in...

Avoiding Implementation Mishaps with a Delivery Route Planner App
Does your dock look like a Chinese fire drill every morning with loaders scrambling to put packages on trucks, dispatchers sprinting to finish routes, and drivers mainlining coffee...

Separating Fact from Fiction: Real AI in Last Mile Delivery
AI is more than just hype—but current deployments of it cover the entire spectrum from life-changing to wildly unnecessary. On the one hand, two of the 2024 Nobel prize winners (th...

3 Ways Food Distributors Can Prepare Their Supply Chains for Recalls
Food recalls in 2024 were triple what they were in 2022. That number is eye-popping to begin with, but it’s even more startling when you realize that the average cost to the manufa...

6 Best Practices for Implementing Truck Fleet Software
Your truck fleet is so much more than a collection of assets. It represents one of the most complex parts of your business, and your ability to ensure connectivity and visibility i...

Level up Customer Delivery Experience Management with 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. These...

How AI in the Supply Chain Will Impact Delivery in 2025 and Beyond
Are we on a path to see fully agentic AI taking over most human tasks and effectively transforming society (and the global supply chain along with it) before 2030? Or are we in the...

Last Mile Delivery Cost Breakdown: What to Do About High Costs
Last year, more than 80% of retail executives said that reducing total cost per order was their top last mile priority. 3Pls and carriers showed similar priorities, and for the sam...

What Is Dispatch Software?
Is dispatch software just about scheduling and monitoring drivers in your fleet—or is there more to it? It depends who you ask. On the one hand, dispatch software can be as simple ...