Michael Santry

last mile delivery

The 10 Best Last Mile Delivery Apps

Last mile solutions help to reduce the stress and cost from the final stage in the delivery process. We take a look at 10 of the best apps available.

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9 Best Order Management Softwares For Your Business

Finding the right Order Management Software can help you to quickly and easily manage and scale your business. We help choose the right one for your business.

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8 Best Truck Routing Software Solutions For Your Fleet

Truck routing software can cut route planning time and bring your trucks to new levels of efficiency. Find the best solution for your fleet in this guide.

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How To Start A Medical Courier Service

A medical courier service can bring big rewards when compared with traditional delivery businesses. We take a look at how to start one.

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How to Start a Courier Business

In this guide we have put together the 10 steps involved in starting a courier business.

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Your Guide to Sustainable Fleet Management

Everything you need to know about sustainable fleet management and how it can benefit your business.

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Top 7 Routing Softwares For Small Business & How to Choose One

Choosing a route planning software for a small business is as simple as understanding your needs. We help you to quickly decide on the best one for you.

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WooCommerce Route Planner

If you run your online store on WooCommerce, automating delivery routes based on your orders can save hours of time. Check out how we can help.

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What is a fleet manager?

Fleet Managers play a key role in the smooth operation of business vehicle fleets. Learn what they do, how to hire and how you can help make the role a success

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9 Best Multi-Drop Route Planners

Multi-drop route planning can be a challenge but using the right software you can save your business time and money. We've done the research for you here.

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5 of the Best Route Planner Apps

We take a look at some of the best mobile route planner apps available on the Android & iOS stores

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Route management: [the complete guide]

Route management is now a fundamental for most businesses as the demand for direct-to-consumer delivery grows exponentially [[Ultimate guide]]

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ETA versus ETD: What's the difference between estimated time of arrival and delivery?

Learn the difference between estimated time of delivery (ETD) & estimated time of arrival (ETA) and why it matters to you and your business.

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What are delivery notifications?

Delivery notifications are no longer a nice to have for people waiting delivery to be completed. They are a must-have along with live-package tracking. Get our complete guide here.

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Delivery experience [Complete guide]

What makes a great delivery experience? Customer notifications...on time delivery....package tracking portals for customers. This is your definitive guide if you are in last mile operations.

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Contactless delivery and how to do it right

Contactless Delivery has become the preferred method of receiving goods for customers all over the world. Learn more about how it works and how to implement it successfully

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Newspaper Distribution Management System: Case Study

The Irish Times work with SmartRoutes to change the way their paper gets to people and respond to changing consumer habits. Check out our case study to see how we have done it for them.

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Route planning for logistics

Logistics teams require route planning and optimization tools to ensure efficient delivery rates and to reduce costs. Learn how to implement it here.

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Home Delivery Route: Case Study

Home delivery routing can be expensive for small businesses and the potential for missed deliveries and unhappy customers is high. Learn how to do it right.....right here.

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Route planning

Route planning for businesses doing deliveries or customer visits has changed immeasurably in the past 5 years. We take a comprehensive look at why it is so critical to business infrastructure now.

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Newspaper route app: Case Study

Irish Independent newspapers are a great case study on how to roll-out a newspaper route app for delivery drivers.

last mile delivery

Last mile delivery: 7 trends guide

7 trends from industry professionals on last mile delivery this year. Looking at the changing landscape of driver shortages, new tech and customer expectations.

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Address Validation

Address Validation ensures that you find the correct location every time you do a delivery. Learn how we do it at SmartRoutes.

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Food delivery software: Case Study

Food delivery software is getting food direct to consumers in their homes quicker, cheaper and with fewer emissions. If you are in food retail this case study will help you.