Last Mile Delivery

The growing demand for ecommerce and rising consumer expectations have placed additional pressure on retailers to expedite delivery without increasing costs, which has brought renewed attention to order fulfillment, especially last mile delivery.

New data from Austin, Texas-based Convey shows how COVID-19 continues to impact retail delivery and the last mile – including performance and market share for FedEx, UPS, USPS and regional carriers.

How distribution centers and warehouses can ensure they’re meeting the e-commerce challenge.

In this paper, we show how to optimize delivery performance across your first and middle miles using the digital supply chain.

The primary goal of the Last Mile Routing Research Challenge is to encourage participants to develop innovative approaches leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and other non-conventional methods to produce solutions to the route sequencing problem.

Playground Global and Schematic Ventures are backing the startup

Which supply chain challenges will preoccupy companies in 2021? Many are reflected in MIT CTL's research agenda for the new year, so we asked our senior researchers to describe what they would like to achieve in 2021.

GM launches BrightDrop, which will offer an ecosystem of electric first-to-last-mile products, software, and services to empower delivery and logistics companies to move goods more efficiently.

This report presents an integrated perspective on the future of the last-mile delivery ecosystem, which was developed jointly by the World Economic Forum, McKinsey & Company, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Leaseplan, and more than 20 public- and private-sector partners who contributed related data, expertise and case studies.

This white paper uncovers common areas where technology, along with market intelligence, can help optimize the supply chain for a competitive edge.

Orlando, Fla.-based OneRail, a provider of final mile delivery services for enterprise shippers, is continuing to make inroads, with an eye on growth, announcing it completed a $6.7 million round of Late Seed financing and closing out its $12.5 million seed round.

Over the last few years, as e-commerce sales have increased and customer expectations have shifted, there has been a steady race to move fulfillment closer to the customer.

For those businesses that have invested wisely in a technology partner during these tumultuous times, they will most assuredly stay in the game of last-mile deliveries as those partners are already engaging in future-ready features.

COVID-19 startup Curative Inc. contracts with a Wisconsin-based company to use its Elite EXTRA advanced dispatch software to expedite COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to nursing homes in California.

From space deliveries to smart connected cities to blockchain based tracking apps: How to get ready for the new world.