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Why It’s Time for Jansan Businesses to Rethink Their Delivery Tech

Jan 11, 2023

No one knows better than jansan distributors that it’s easy to take the little things for granted. You step into a school and you expect there to be soap and paper towels in the ba...

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Food and Beverage, Insights

How Has Routing for Beer Distributors Evolved in the Last 10 Years?

Jan 4, 2023

Reading this headline, a lot of beer distributors are going to be tempted to say: it hasn’t. And that’s understandable. While technology companies have been investing in ways to ma...

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How to Deal with Last-Minute Requests in Building Supplies Delivery

Jan 3, 2023

Generally speaking, contractors aren’t exactly renowned for their patience. A typical large job site is going to have a dozen things going on at any given moment and very little ex...

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5 Questions to Ask About Your Delivery Technology in 2023

Dec 27, 2022

With economic headwinds accelerating, the question of how to approach technology spending is going to be a thorny one for a lot of businesses in 2023—particularly delivery organiza...

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Why B2B Deliveries Need to Look More Like B2C in 2023

Dec 15, 2022

The following is part of a series of posts about DispatchTrack’s point of view on the trends that will drive last mile delivery in 2023 and beyond. This week, we’ll be discussing t...

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Research: What Are the Top Last Mile Sustainability Strategies?

Dec 13, 2022

According to DispatchTrack’s recent Last Mile Sustainability Perspective, which polled more than 140 logistics professionals on how they’re thinking about sustainability, 8 out of ...

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Predictions: What's on the Last Mile Sustainability Agenda in 2023?

Dec 6, 2022

The following is part of a series of posts about DispatchTrack’s point of view on the trends that will drive last mile delivery in 2023 and beyond. This week, we’ll be discussing t...

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Why Are Just 39% of Companies Tracking Their Green Logistics Efforts?

Dec 1, 2022

When it comes to sustainability in logistics—particularly in the last mile—it can be difficult to separate the signal from the noise. Sure, there are plenty of opinion pieces and s...

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Food and Beverage, Insights

Handling Rapidly Changing Order Mixes with Food Distribution Software

Nov 22, 2022

SKU proliferation isn’t anything new, but it certainly feels like it’s ramped up considerably in food and beverage distribution in just the last few years. The last few years have ...

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Why Strategic Planning Is Going to Be Key to Delivery Success in 2023

Nov 17, 2022

Do you ever look at your delivery schedule and wonder why you’re delivering a single keg of beer every Wednesday to an account that receives large orders every Tuesday and Thursday...

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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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