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5 Best Practices for Handling Peak Season Deliveries

Nov 8, 2022

The holiday shopping season seems to be creeping up earlier and earlier every year. Even with the disruptions caused by the pandemic in the past few years, consumer demand around t...

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5 Best Practices for Boosting B2B Delivery Efficiency

Nov 1, 2022

Things change faster than ever in B2B delivery these days. Once upon a time, your typical beverage distribution plan involved delivering the same product mix to the same customers ...

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What’s the Future of Parcel Shipping?

Oct 24, 2022

Drones. Blockchain. Autonomous vehicles. We’ve been hearing about how technologies like these are going to revolutionize delivery for years now. And there’s no doubt that trends li...

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How Segmenting Your Communications Improves Last Mile Efficiency

Oct 19, 2022

Technology has gone a long way towards demystifying the last mile in the last few years. For decades, last mile deliveries were something of a black box, with virtually no meaningf...

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How Efficiency and Sustainability Go Together in the Last Mile

Oct 10, 2022

When logistics professionals think about obstacles to going green in the last mile, a number of hurdles probably come to mind: accurately measuring CO2 output, finding electric veh...

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How to Speed Up Sales and Delivery Territory Planning

Sep 26, 2022

Territory planning: it’s a crucial part of successful delivery and sales operations for many businesses (especially wholesalers and distributors), but the phrase probably sounds li...

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How Can Fast, AI-Powered What-If Scenarios Impact Last Mile Logistics?

Sep 19, 2022

When logistics professionals think about what-if scenarios, they may be more likely to think of them in connection with processes that model the entire supply chain, not just the l...

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5 Challenges in Digital Transformation of Last Mile Logistics

Sep 13, 2022

A few years ago, it was a popularly cited figure that 70% of digital transformations fail to achieve their goals. It’s easy to imagine that that number has probably gotten a lot le...

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4 Common Pitfalls in Delivery Territory Management

Sep 6, 2022

Right now, there are a number of software solutions on the market devoted to planning territories that are balanced, efficient, and aligned with larger business goals—addressing th...

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4 Best Practices for White Glove Deliveries

Aug 31, 2022

The e-commerce boom and the huge volume increases in online shopping in the last few years have changed a lot about the way that consumers get things like furniture, appliances, ex...

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82% of Businesses Are Worried About Late Deliveries Over the Holidays

Aug 23, 2022

In DispatchTrack’s latest report, we found that most businesses (66%) aren’t getting an earlier start this year than last when it comes to holiday preparations. But that doesn’t me...

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Why 92% of Businesses Expect Higher Costs This Holiday Season

Aug 16, 2022

If you looked at the headline and immediately answered: fuel prices—you’re only half right. According to Dispatchtrack’s 2022 Holiday Perspective, 93% of businesses expect operatin...

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How to Handle Uncertainty Around Deliveries This Holiday Season

Aug 9, 2022

If you’re in the last mile delivery game, it’s almost never too early to start thinking about the holidays—and this year’s no different. Between ongoing concerns about inflation to...

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