What Does the Next Generation of Route Optimization Look Like?
Search for “route optimization” on Google, and you’re likely to see a lot of similar definitions of the term. If you keep scrolling, you’ll mostly see variations on the theme that ...
What to Look for in Furniture and Appliance Delivery Software
The game has changed more than once for furniture and appliance delivery in the past few years. Customer expectations are as stringent as ever, but at the same time the larger supp...
How Are Global Standards for Delivery Experience Changing?
The challenges that delivery businesses face in getting the right goods to the right customer at the right time are hyper-local. Routers need to navigate vehicle access, one-way st...
Why 62% of Logistics Leaders Expect Higher Costs This Year
In a recent DispatchTrack survey of more than 100 logistics professionals, fuel costs (59% of respondents) and inflation (46%) topped the list of current challenges for 2023. So it...
3 Pitfalls to Avoid with Building Products Logistics Software
There’s any number of reasons why building products logistics is a challenge. Labor shortages in the construction industry make job schedules a lot tighter and put a lot more press...
What Are the Top Machine Learning Use Cases in Logistics?
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...
Why 70% of Supply Chain Leaders Are Still Experiencing Challenges
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...
How to Boost Visibility Between Sales, Merchandising, and Delivery
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...
Optimize Pickup Logistics with Building Products Logistics Software
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...
5 Customer Communication Best Practices in Building Materials Delivery
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...
Can Delivery Optimization Help Food Wholesalers Fight Inflation?
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’...