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Should You Use Google Maps for Trucks?

WorkWave

By examining vast troves of data, a good route planner will select the best route more often. When using Google Maps for trucks drivers have to consider whether it meets their needs. because Google Maps fundamentally isn’t designed to meet the needs of modern truckers. Special Delivery Formats. Higher Productivity.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 30 – October 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

Under the service, called Return a Package, an Uber driver will pick up sealed and prepaid packages at a customer location and drop them off at a local post office or FedEx Corp. said Wednesday it has begun offering a service to handle returns. or UPS Inc. The company said service will not be impacted by the hub’s closure.

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The New Expectations of Customer Courtesy in the Digital Age

WorkWave

quintillion bytes of data each day and distribute it across social media, messaging, email, and other online platforms. Simply put, the speed and diversity of the digital age have changed the way that customer service teams operate to meet consumers’ expectations in today’s tech-driven world. Time To Read: 4 minutes.

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How to Start a Delivery Business

WorkWave

Use CRM software to help you gain insight into such data and to help you improve your business performance. For example, do you plan or purchase the equipment outright? Legal Steps Involved in Starting a Home Delivery Business. The best structure for starting a home delivery business would be the LLC.

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Visibility-Driven Workflow for Transportation Execution

Talking Logistics

If you can track an Uber driver or an Amazon package delivery on your smartphone, why can’t supply chain visibility be just as easy? JP says, “Today’s tier one transportation management systems have the ability to pull data from many sources into a single view. You need to meet the data where it’s at.

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Top 25 Supply Chains of 2018

Material Handling and Logistics

In fact, BMW has adopted any number of digital production technologies, such as data analytics, smart logistics and 3D printing. To speed time-to-market, the company has developed automated packaging and 3D printing techniques that can meet specific product package and label requirements in near real-time, notes Gartner’s analysts.

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The Future Is Now for Logistics

Material Handling and Logistics

But many people are not aware that last-mile deliveries are also handled by thousands of small local and regional package delivery firms. Package delivery companies are prime targets as well. These measures further reduce warehouse capacity, driving rates even higher," the report says. Science Fiction Becomes Real.