20 memes to lighten up the world of logistics and supply chain! Memes are the latest rage that is all over the internet and we have tried to leverage them based on the latest trends in the logistics industry. While the logistics and supply chain industry is always under stress to meet its customer’s […]
Insights From DHL’s Focus on Tech And Innovation #LogiNextInsights This article is a part of the #LogiNextInsights series where we bring to you insights on the secret sauce behind the world’s major brands! Frank Appel, CEO DHL believes it’s important to digitize to take DHL’s logistics operations to the next level. DHL plans […]
Technology Key to Making the Last Mile Affordable This article was first published on foodlogistics.com. The link to the article can be found here. The last-mile delivery segment has exploded in the last few years. In 2021, the global last-mile delivery market stood at over $115 billion in size and is expected to cross […]
10 must-have features on your delivery driver’s app Driver tracking, efficiency, and deployment play a crucial role in the logistics process. A driver app can help optimize the delivery service and keep them organized to reach the correct destination within the set delivery expectation. In this blog, we will go through the numerous challenges […]
It’s a wrap-up for the Safe Driver Week 2019 and I hope your fleet has come out of it with lesser citations than the last year. The theme of this years #SafeDriverWeek was overspeeding, though overspeeding is a major cause for fatal accidents, we think there are multiple other factors that directly or indirectly contribute towards driver safety on road.
Know where your drivers are at all times. A trucker was lost in snow-covered woods in Oregon for four days when the wrong address was plugged into the GPS. He managed to survive and walk back to more populated areas when his truck got stuck on small roads.
Technology has enabled us to record, plan, allocate, dispatch, track, validate, and analyze all freight movement from a single dashboard with clear and real-time actionable insights in an easy-to-understand format. This leads to an agile, reactive, and dynamic setup for a company’s transportation management system.
We recently integrated with Alexa, Google Assistant, Cortana, and Siri. Now, the manager can simply relax and instruct their personal assistant to fetch the information for them. Almost anyone can use the personal assistant without any hassle. It doesn’t matter if they are tech-savvy.
Polar Vortex can disrupt logistics movement pushing up freight rates due to a shortage of trucks and drivers. Shipments may be delayed either due to rerouting away from snow-blocked highways or, being detained due to traffic bottlenecks. Multi-modal transport via railroads and ports are also affected.
We saw last mile delivery being used as the key input in all omnichannel strategies. We saw localization in distribution strategies centered around making last mile delivery more effective. We also saw machine learning being implemented successfully in logistics and field workforce planning. These trends would be the greatest influencers in 2018 for logistics and field workforce management.