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Fourth Quarter Comebacks: How Dispatchers Handle Last-Minute Deliveries

Locus

Read Also: The Definitive Guide To Logistics Route Optimization 3. Locus’ dispatch management platform transforms the way businesses handle the challenges of last-minute deliveries. But how can businesses ensure they have all these three aspects covered? Want to turn your last-minute delivery challenges into triumphs?

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How to Ensure Effective Third-Party Deliveries and Excellence in Your E-commerce Logistics Operations

Locus

Time and day-definite deliveries : Customers want flexibility to select their preferred delivery dates and time slots for their orders. By providing time and day-definite fulfillment, deliveries become more predictable and it makes them trustworthy. Schedule a demo with us!

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Why Cross-Fleet Utilization Might Be the Best Bet for Business Growth

Locus

Some businesses handle the logistics of two or more different products. Also, they might have a separate fleet to handle the logistics for those two or more products. Say, a business handles pharmaceutical and CPG deliveries and has 100 delivery vehicles in-house for handling the last-mile logistics of both these products.

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What is a routing guide and what are best practices to create one

FreightWaves SONAR

What is a routing guide : a series of instructions to handle delays or changes within shipping demand. The action: include corrective actions and processes to handle issues that may arise and integrate that information with your existing TMS or other systems of record. Request a SONAR Demo. Request a SONAR SCI Demo.

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What does the next freight cycle look like?

FreightWaves SONAR

Strong shifts in demand cannot be handled. Carriers were handling 20%+ more freight in the fall of 2021. Rejection rates were above 20% at the same time, indicating that carriers were handling their limit with an overflow moving on the spot market. Sign up for a SONAR demo. Trucking demand has stabilized this spring.

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The Golden Route: Perfecting Diwali Deliveries This Festive Season

Locus

It encompasses empowering them to handle unexpected hitches like returns, cancellations, and delivery anomalies, all while giving them a clear view of their earnings and setting achievable ETA goals. And enhancing driver productivity isn’t just about speeding through a delivery checklist.

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Owned Vs Outsourced Fleet: What’s Best for Your Fast Retail Business

Locus

The trickiest piece in handling owned fleets is to manage the cost and convenience of deliveries. But managing hybrid fleets has its own share of challenges, like handling contingencies and managing capacity shortages during seasonal peaks. Delivery volumes. Data security. What is the optimal fleet mix for a fast retail business?