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Category: Route Optimization
Healthcare / Pharmaceutical
How Delivery Optimization Software can Help biopharmaceutical cold-chain logistics?
Aug 21, 2020
Key Takeaways Earlier cold chains were confined to a narrow brand of drug products. Today, with the rise of biopharmaceuticals, cold chain logistics is more important than ever. What is a cold chain from a logistics point of view? A temperature-controlled supply chain is called a cold chain. Samples from clinical trials, biologics, vaccines, different […]
Route Optimization
How to choose Route Optimization Software for Small and Mid-Sized Fleet?
Jun 12, 2020
Key Takeaways The dispatch planning process has become quite complicated, with a varied mix of daily customer orders and multiple options for vehicles and routes. This complexity has made delivery companies search for good route optimization software for their small and mid-sized fleets. Route planners and logistics managers attach a lot of significance to route […]
Last Mile Delivery Optimization
COVID-19 : Time to Zone out
May 18, 2020
Key Takeaways Ever since the global community took note of the COVID-19 transforming into a pandemic, enforced social distancing or lockdowns have been a consistent reaction from every Government (barring rare exceptions like Sweden). The severity of the lockdown has varied from recommendations to stay indoors to military enforced mandatory restrictions on any movement deemed […]
CEP and 3PL
Zone-based routing is the need of the hour
May 12, 2020
Key Takeaways Terms like Red, Amber, Green; Red, Orange, Green; phased opening; restrictions; have all become a crucial part of our lives in the last few weeks. With the world slowly opening up amidst the Covid-19 outbreak, supply chain and logistics is going to play a really crucial role in setting up the ‘new normal’. Team […]
Healthcare / Pharmaceutical
Managing the Pharma Supply Chain smoothly amidst the COVID-19 chaos
May 6, 2020
Key Takeaways We’re in the year of a devastating global pandemic that has put the entire mankind at risk. The COVID-19 outbreak has affected over 3.5 million people so far and is continuing to disrupt normal life and economies around the world. Over 100 vaccines are currently under pre-clinical tests, but healthcare experts are still […]
Delivery Experience
Refrigerated Logistics becomes a mainstay in Grocery deliveries
May 6, 2020
Key Takeaways In the next ten years, 70% of American consumers will regularly do grocery shopping online. – Food Marketing Institute. The sudden growth of online grocery sales has led to increased demand for cold-storage products. A challenge that grocers face in refrigerated logistics is that consumers are very picky when it comes to food […]
Route Optimization
How advanced route planning software benefits fleet drivers?
Apr 22, 2020
Key Takeaways Routing Software for Delivery Drivers: 3.5 million truck drivers in the USA contribute to more than two-thirds of total freight tonnage moved nationally. They move more than ten billions of freight annually.- American trucking association. Coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a sudden rush of demand for new drivers to deliver essential goods. Logistics companies […]
CEP and 3PL
How businesses can manage peak delivery periods?
Apr 14, 2020
Key Takeaways Holiday seasons contribute 13.4% sales compared to total holiday retail sales in the United States- Statista, 2019 Deliveries usually are at an all-time high when there is a festival or at the beginning of a new year. Products may be discounted, overpriced, unavailable, or out-of-stock. But, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, logistics, […]
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