ALC - Dispatch

For a lot of businesses, step one is to figure out that your last mile delivery process isn’t working the way you want it to. Step two is to find a way to optimize it. Step one can be a challenge in and of itself—especially when it comes to getting buy-in from the entire organization that something needs to be done. But step two is where the rubber meets the road.

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Construction material costs may be starting to stabilize at last—though some pockets of volatility certainly remain—but that doesn’t change the basic dilemma faced by distributors of building supplies: you need to keep customers happy with quick turnaround and high-precision deliveries, but you also need to keep your delivery costs under control in order to maintain your margins.

In logistics, strategic route planning is essential for maintaining efficiency and profitability.

Ever feel like you’re drowning in delivery data but struggling to stay afloat when it comes to making sense of it all? That’s what last mile delivery analytics is all about: Taking that data, aggregating it in a single location and using it to produce meaningful insights that help you improve your operation.  

New enhancements boost readability, modernize design, and make workflows more intuitive to set drivers up for success on every delivery

Last mile delivery is about a lot more than just cheap, fast order fulfillment. It’s about a lot more than the Amazon effect, or the e-commerce boom. It’s about managing complexity in the last leg of the supply chain management process in order to keep your customers happy—whether they’re consumers waiting for a new dishwasher to arrive, grocery stores awaiting pallets of lettuce, or busy job sites in need of lumber.

Every year, customer expectations around delivery change at least a little bit. A recent study showed that nearly 70% of people wouldn’t reorder from a company that failed to deliver within the promised time window. That shift puts pressure on delivery organizations across the board.

Dropping a couple of stacks of 2x4s and a case of joist hangers at a home builder’s site is all in a day’s work, but what happens when you need to do that for hundreds of sites—and deliver everything from HVAC systems to air tools to commercial water heaters? Building supplies don’t always come in neat cubic bundles, and you can’t just put down the package and ring a doorbell, so scaling their delivery can be daunting. It’s more than simply routing orders sequentially to a list of stops. It requires accuracy, speed, and efficiency that only a highly capable delivery platform can achieve.