The transportation industry is always on the go — moving across vast geographical areas and usually dispersed across the globe.
According to Statista, gross revenue generated by the US third-party logistics industry from 2000 to 2018 has been increasing at a constant rate.
In the early days, the transportation sector used mainly navigation and location-based services with mobile apps. But as of recently, the mobile applications for transportation companies include traffic data collection, travel information, route planning, ridesharing, etc.
Improved Efficiency
One of the major challenges faced by a transportation company is the underutilization of the vehicles at their disposal. Many times, they travel without meeting the target load capacity and return empty.
This is a serious wastage of fuel and time. A mobile app that provides connectivity with the truck drivers can help the company schedule pickups along the way.
The trucks can run at optimum capacity, improving efficiency and increasing revenue.
Reduced Costs, Increased Profits
The logistics industry is plagued by middlemen and brokers who demand a heavy commission for bringing in new customers and shipping orders. This commission eats into the company's profits.
An app can remove the need of middlemen and connect the companies to the clients directly. By eliminating the commissions involved, the app reduces the costs incurred by the logistics company and increases its profits.
Warehouse management made easy:
The deployment of mobile apps in logistics is also expected to double by 2020, and the startup segments also contribute up to 50% of the demand for the logistic mobile app development.
The most important segment where logistics and transportation mobile app development touches error-free system and flawless handling of goods is in yards and warehouses. With the utilization of mobile apps powered with the industry-related features, managers of the warehouse can easily lessen the errors and inaccuracies that may occur due to manual efforts.
Mobile applications help to automate the process of logging equipment details, IDs of goods and storage locations by scanning them. Hence, warehouse managers can find it simple to consider transactions and inventory details entered through a mobile application and update the data into the original database.