To meet growing seasonal demands, many retailers use outsourced partners to cope with the extra volume and added pressure. For this relationship to work at its best, you and your outsourced providers must form a solid, stable partnership for you to take full advantage of peak shipping seasons.
Communication with your outsourced provider is always the first step in ensuring your pickups and deliveries are being executed properly, but technology plays a key role in managing this communication.
Once thought to be a nice supplement to your business, fleet technology is an investment both integral and foundational to logistics operations in order to provide the control required for business success. And with declining costs and continuous innovation, the economics behind these types of investments are now a smart move for any fleet operation – large or small.
With the interdependency in the supply chain among retailers, carriers and their outsourced partners, the latest telematics technologies for carriers can improve service and make the sharing of knowledge easier to meet your needs, your customers’ needs and their customers’ needs. Here are 10 ways that you can use telematics to deliver the control you need to make peak work for you.