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What Are the Top Machine Learning Use Cases in Logistics?

Jul 13, 2023

According to a recent report from IDC, the top 2 business objectives for using AI are operational efficiency (39%) and improved customer experience (38%). Given how trendy AI and m...

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Why 70% of Supply Chain Leaders Are Still Experiencing Challenges

Jul 6, 2023

If you’ve been listening to reports coming out throughout 2023, you might have gotten the impression that the supply chain crisis of the past few years has been significantly easin...

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5 Applications of AI in Logistics

Jun 29, 2023

ChatGPT hasn’t taken over the world yet, and human delivery drivers still haven’t been phased out in favor of autonomous vehicles with sophisticated computer vision capabilities—bu...

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How to Boost Visibility Between Sales, Merchandising, and Delivery

Jun 22, 2023

Let’s say you’re a beverage distributor, and because of a traffic closure outside your control you're about to wind up delivering a number of cases to one of your top customers sig...

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Transition with Ease: Moving from Roadnet to DispatchTrack

Jun 15, 2023

Most businesses have different needs than they did a decade ago. Not only has the state of last mile delivery changed considerably in recent years—thanks to ratcheting customer exp...

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building products & supplies logistics software

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The Top 5 Building Products & Supplies Delivery Challenges

Jun 8, 2023

For a lot of building and construction material suppliers, dealing with volatility is just table stakes. A year ago, when the cost of lumber was sky high, businesses across the ent...

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Optimize Pickup Logistics with Building Products Logistics Software

Jun 1, 2023

It’s the middle of the morning at your building materials warehouse. Your delivery dashboard is showing mostly on-time deliveries with a few exceptions that you’ll want to check up...

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Last Mile Delivery, Insights

5 Customer Communication Best Practices in Building Materials Delivery

May 25, 2023

When your customers are trying to coordinate a delivery of parts with the arrival of the team that’s meant to do an installation with those parts, the stakes are high for deliverin...

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Insights

Can Delivery Optimization Help Food Wholesalers Fight Inflation?

May 18, 2023

The massive food price increases seen over the course of 2022 and 2023 haven’t been making headlines as frequently in the past couple months—but that doesn’t mean their impact isn’...

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Insights

How to Overcome Large Fleet Delivery Challenges

May 12, 2023

For complex distribution networks involving large fleets, there are some challenges that seem to grow exponentially as your fleet increases in size. Anyone who runs even a single t...

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Food and Beverage, Insights

Frequently Asked Questions About Food and Beverage Route Planning

May 4, 2023

For too long, food and beverage route planning has been a process that relied on knowledge that’s trapped in the heads of planners, domain experts, and consultants. The logic behin...

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Fleet Management, Insights

4 Features to Look for in Logistics Software for Fleet Management

Apr 27, 2023

Contrary to the title of this article, anyone who’s grappled with the complexity of fleet management in industries like food distribution, beverage wholesaling, or even third party...

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Food and Beverage, Insights

Overcoming Food Supply Chain Challenges in 2023

Apr 20, 2023

It’s not a secret that supply chain challenges are still an issue for food distributors. We’re still feeling the long tail effects of the covid supply chain disruptions that began ...

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