Keys to improving last mile logistics


How can this logistics stage be improved?

Technological development is bringing new opportunities that we can take advantage of to deal with the various aspects that occur in last-mile logistics. Experienced advisor and investor David Solomont, founder of ev Transportation Services, Inc ("evTS"), indicates that some of these solutions can be applied by our company while others seem to have fallen into our hands as if by magic.

Here, this experienced investor and advisor, who has a proven track record of working foe 4 decades in the software, technology, media, gaming and transportation industries and strong professional skills in business development, e-commerce, entrepreneurship, strategic planning, and venture capital, will explain in this podcast more about how last mile logistics can be improved.


Leveraged in crowdsourcing

Many companies that offer retail products have become dependent on new delivery applications. Companies like Uber and many others have developed these services in which third parties can sign up and distribute a wide range of products from various businesses. According to Slomont, this alternative significantly reduces transportation costs and is also a very efficient way to deliver the product when the customer requires it.


Track and monitor orders

It is essential that every company that offers home delivery of products has an optimal order tracking and monitoring system in place. Solomont advices paying a little more for a good system than to suffer the consequences of a poor system. After all, we don't want orders to disappear out of nowhere, orders to be duplicated and the endless conflicts that having a bad system in place can bring.


Optimize delivery routes

If you have your own delivery fleet or work with a delivery company, it is best to make sure that the delivery routes set out are optimal. Solomont indicates that an optimal route is one that has already been designed in advance to avoid those congestion points in the city as much as possible.


What's to come

“The truth is that the trend in last-mile logistics in recent years has been strongly influenced by technological development,” says David Solomont. Today, there are a large number of businesses whose deliveries depend exclusively on delivery applications, companies such as supermarkets, various stores, restaurants and many other businesses make use of this system.


Most likely, in the coming years, the delivery service will be further optimized with new technologies such as the ones Amazon plans to develop or through delivery automation.