Essendant, a leading distributor of business supplies, announced a strategic partnership with Roadie, a UPS company. Roadie is a logistics management and crowdsourced delivery platform that offers businesses fast, flexible, and asset-light logistics solutions for last-mile delivery. This collaboration aims to enhance supply chain efficiency and provide faster, more reliable delivery services to businesses across the United States.
As part of this partnership, Roadie will leverage Essendant’s sorting and distribution network to expand its nationwide delivery coverage, allowing the platform to reach an even broader customer base while improving delivery speed and efficiency.
“Partnering with Roadie is an exciting step in our mission to drive agility and flexibility in delivering top-tier service to our customers,” said Tim Engstrom, SVP of Supply Chain at Essendant. “Through this collaboration, we’re enhancing our network to support Roadie‘s use of our sorting and distribution infrastructure, enabling them to offer greater coverage and faster deliveries across the country.”
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Through its RoadieXD™ solution, Roadie’s platform connects businesses with a community of local drivers who can deliver products directly from distribution hubs to customer locations. This partnership will help Essendant meet the growing demand for rapid, on-demand delivery services, particularly for last-mile deliveries in urban and hard-to-reach areas.
The partnership also includes collaborative efforts to streamline supply chain logistics, reduce carbon emissions, and develop more sustainable delivery practices by utilizing local drivers in real-time.
SOURCE: PRNewswire