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What to Look for in Furniture Delivery Software

Aug 9, 2023

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...

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How Are Global Standards for Delivery Experience Changing?

Aug 9, 2023

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...

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Why 62% of Logistics Leaders Expect Higher Costs This Year

Aug 3, 2023

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...

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Pitfalls to Avoid When Selecting Building Products Logistics Software

Jul 27, 2023

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...

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What to Look for in a Construction Material Delivery App

Jul 20, 2023

Delivering construction material can be chaotic at the best of times. Your clients are on tight timelines, and they often want their deliveries on same-day or next-day turnarounds,...

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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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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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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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