Keep Grainger Trusted — Fast, Across Every Facility
AI-optimised logistics that deliver critical MRO parts on time, every time—even as e-commerce volumes and service promises soar.
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The Logistics Challenges Facing Grainger Today
Delivery Time Precision
Maintaining tight delivery windows for orders while scaling operations, especially for fast-paced e-commerce growth.
Cross-Docking Coordination
Handling high volumes across multiple locations while coordinating between inbound and outbound freight to avoid delays.
Fleet Utilization
Optimizing a large fleet to ensure maximum asset utilization while keeping transportation costs low.
Seasonal Demand Fluctuations
Managing increased demand during peak seasons without disrupting service levels or incurring excessive costs.
Last-Mile Optimization
Optimizing routes and reducing delivery times for a dispersed customer base, ensuring efficiency despite the growing need for quick, accurate deliveries.
Multi-Channel Fulfillment Efficiency
Integrating store replenishment with e-commerce orders, ensuring cost-effective fulfillment across both models while maintaining service quality.
Solutions Built for Grainger’s Reality
Build mileage-efficient, capacity-aware routes for same-day and next-day industrial-supply orders, honoring cut-off times, cube/weight limits, and site-access rules to raise OTIF and slash lead times.
Auto-elevate breakdown-critical parts mid-shift, dynamically resequencing lower-priority stops so urgent deliveries still arrive within promised windows without adding trucks.
Use ShipFlex to pick the best origin (regional DC, branch, vendor drop-ship) and carrier (Grainger fleet, parcel, hot-shot) per order, optimizing cost, speed, and asset utilization.
Provide ops with a real-time map of every load plus auto-alerts for traffic, site delays, or HOS risks, enabling proactive reroutes and customer updates.
Equip drivers with optimized navigation, secure access-code workflows, and digital proof-of-delivery, feeding instant status and compliance data back to HQ.
Match planned vs. actual miles, stop counts, and accessorials for third-party haulers, flagging discrepancies and accelerating audit-ready approvals.
Route Optimization
Build mileage-efficient, capacity-aware routes for same-day and next-day industrial-supply orders, honoring cut-off times, cube/weight limits, and site-access rules to raise OTIF and slash lead times.
Dynamic Re-sequencing
Auto-elevate breakdown-critical parts mid-shift, dynamically resequencing lower-priority stops so urgent deliveries still arrive within promised windows without adding trucks.
Dynamic Carrier Selection
Use ShipFlex to pick the best origin (regional DC, branch, vendor drop-ship) and carrier (Grainger fleet, parcel, hot-shot) per order, optimizing cost, speed, and asset utilization.
Control Tower
Provide ops with a real-time map of every load plus auto-alerts for traffic, site delays, or HOS risks, enabling proactive reroutes and customer updates.
Driver App POD
Equip drivers with optimized navigation, secure access-code workflows, and digital proof-of-delivery, feeding instant status and compliance data back to HQ.
Automated Carrier Invoice Reconciliation
Match planned vs. actual miles, stop counts, and accessorials for third-party haulers, flagging discrepancies and accelerating audit-ready approvals.
Success Stories
Croma’s End-to-End Logistics Overhaul
Dynamic routing, control-tower visibility, and a driver app unified operations for faster, fully digitized deliveries.
Driver utilization rate
Digitalization of manual efforts
Express delivery achieved
Visibility of daily dispatches
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