5 Steps to Achieving Last Mile Optimization
Between 2018 and 2023, last mile delivery costs went from 41 percent of total shipping costs to 53 percent. Reliable data for 2024 and 2025 won’t be available for a while, but anec...
5 Key Features to Look for in a Fleet Management Solution
Pop quiz: What’s the hardest part of the logistics process to optimize? It could easily be last mile routing—the number of parameters that have to be factored into most delivery ro...
5 Signs You Need to Upgrade Your Route Strategy Planner
When it comes to last mile delivery management, there’s always a risk of stagnation. Planning and executing delivery routes is a complex problem—one that has serious implications f...
What’s Are the Best Dispatching Applications for Building Supplies?
The best dispatching applications are in the eye of the beholder. Your version of the “best” software is one that best fits your operation while providing essential features and a ...
What to Look for in Service Routing Software
At first glance, smart routing for on-site professional services may seem largely similar to routing for deliveries. Both involve careful planning, time windows, and getting the ri...
Automatic Dispatching Software for Trucking: 5 Must-Have Capabilities
For last-mile delivery operators the allure of automated dispatch and logistics software is obvious: Optimized operations, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction. Howeve...
Overcoming Food Supply Chain Challenges in 2025
If it’s not one thing, it’s another. To start off 2025, egg prices in the US have risen higher than they were at the height of the covid pandemic—and with avian flu wreaking havoc ...
ICYMI: Bringing Clarity the Last Mile
Visibility for Food Distributors in 2025 Visibility into your delivery operations as a food distributor might sound simple, but in reality it’s anything but. Gaining clarity into w...
5 Key Steps You’ll Be Glad You Took When a Food Recall Hits
Listeria. Salmonella. Lead. These are things you really don’t want in your kielbasa or your peanut butter, but with food recalls reaching a five year high last year distributors ne...
The Top 7 Building Products & Supplies Delivery Challenges
To say that “the construction industry faces a shifting landscape” might be one of the understatements of the year. A few years ago it was covid and all the uncertainty that came w...
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...