Author: Bryan Tankus

How to Scale with Automated Scheduling

Grasshopper Now Integrates with Hub Group! (How to Scale with Automated Scheduling) In today’s modern supply chain world, accurate scheduling is essential to ensure the rest of the shipping process goes smoothly for your customers and your team: from receiving, shipping, and delivering to the appropriate location, at the right time. A slight mess up […]

DispatchTrack vs. Grasshopper: User Experience

Grasshopper Now Integrates with Hub Group! (DispatchTrack vs. Grasshopper: User Experience) There are many challenges in today’s supply chain industry- from increased costs, speed, lack of visibility, and the list goes on. At the same time though, the market has been rapidly expanding- calling for bigger demands, higher expectations, and more competitors entering the industry. […]

Top 4 Ways to Streamline Your Warehouse & Customer Service with Grasshopper Mobile

Grasshopper Now Integrates with Hub Group! (Top 4 Ways to Streamline Your Warehouse Customer Service With Grasshopper Mobile) Not having accurate visibility into your warehouse management can greatly impact the manufacturer’s cash flow in the business. From being overstocked, running out of products, trying to cover all the inventory expenses, and not wanting to disappoint […]

Improved Fleet utilization with Grasshopper’s Advance Manifests Restrictions

Improved Fleet utilization with Grasshopper’s Advance Manifests Restrictions As Grasshopper’s algorithms learn more about user’s routing and scheduling preferences, we discovered a great need to improve the overall truck’s utilization by letting the routers/schedulers optimize their trucks by limiting the commodity type (and size) and service levels that will be served by the delivery teams […]

5 Ways Online Scheduling Can Change Your Customer Shopping Experience

Grasshopper Now Integrates with Hub Group! (5 Ways Online Scheduling Can Change Your Customer Shopping Experience) For consumers, delivery is a crucial part of the purchasing process that they remember about a brand. Customers have a great range of competitors to choose from if a business can’t keep up with their expectations. For retailers, providing […]

The Secret Formula to Improving Your Logistics Performance: Last Mile Delivery Technology

Grasshopper Now Integrates with Hub Group! (The Secret Formula to Improving Your Logistics Performance: Last Mile Delivery Technology) After Nike parted ways from Amazon in 2019, other big and small retailers like Ikea also ditched Amazon to sell their products online independently. With the emergence of platforms like Shopify and CommerceHub, retailers saw how these […]

Technology in Last Mile Operations = YES to Customer Experience

Grasshopper Now Integrates with Hub Group! (Technology in Last Mile Operations = YES to Customer Experience) In the pre-internet world, customer service was as simple as being friendly and providing help to customers in brick and mortar stores. In the logistics industry however, the massive advancement of technology in recent years has transformed the way […]

Touchless Electronic Proof-of-Delivery (ePOD)

Grasshopper Now Integrates with Hub Group! (Touchless Electronic Proof-of-Delivery (ePOD)) In our effort to offer a safer and more comfortable delivery check-out experience, we are rolling an upgrade to our post-delivery survey and enable recipients to sign a complete proof-of-delivery (with signature!), directly on their phone, eliminating the need for the delivery team to hand […]

How to use Grasshopper to track your fleet on-time delivery performance

Grasshopper Now Integrates with Hub Group! (How to use Grasshopper to track your fleet on-time delivery performance?) As Grasshopper is quickly becoming an essential part of a delivery terminal daily operation, we were constantly asked how can we provide a cleaner and simple visibility of the delivery teams on-time performance. Given that using the Grasshopper […]