From chaos to cash flow: Transform your deliveries with ePOD visibility

The speed and success of your distribution process will directly impact your overall profitability and day-to-day cash flow.  Most of the companies we deal with are distribution operators delivering a wide range of products and services that are invoiced for post-delivery.  If that delivery process is convoluted and inefficient, it will impact the time it takes for invoices to be issued and payment collected.

Some of the companies our sales teams speak to on a daily basis invoice days, weeks or even a month after delivery completion.  Most of these operators will be working off a paper-based process that relies on the creation, completion and return of completed delivery tickets which have to be collated and processed before an invoice can be issued.

Technology, especially electronic proof of delivery (ePOD) technology, can take the pain out of that process.  An ePOD solution will give you a real-time confirmation of what items or services were completed when.  Any discrepancies can be dealt with immediately and invoices can be issued faster as a result.  We’ve seen companies go from invoicing monthly, to invoicing either immediately or within 24 hours of delivery completion.  Such a step change in process has nothing short of a huge impact on cash flow.

An ePOD solution allows you to remove paper from your process.  Your transport teams create the routes and these are shared with drivers via an app on a handheld device.  In the case of the Podfather driver app, it can be either an iOS or an Android device, even the most basic of Android device will do the job.

Once your driver is on the way a delivery ETA notification and live tracking link is issued to the customer then when the driver is onsite real-time confirmation is received.  Any item discrepancies can be dealt with and logged with the customers and electronic proof of delivery is transmitted to your back office team, and your end customer, in real-time. 

Accounts teams can spring into action immediately, there is no need to scan, process and file paper tickets.  Any discrepancies can be handled with ease as there is an accurate, digital record with photos and signatures showing exactly what took place. This is itself saves our customers hours upon hours of searching through paper files as our POD archive is easily searchable using a wide range of parameters. 

Transforming deliveries with digital proof of delivery (ePOD) visibility will benefit you and your customers and after all, happy customers are less likely to churn.  So what are you waiting for?  If you want to inject some energy into your delivery process and speed up cash flow we are here to help.  Just get in touch with us today.

Podfather specialises in the development, delivery and support of route optimisation and electronic proof of delivery technology.  We are a UK-based team, located in Edinburgh, and we are passionate about what we do.  We work with companies of all shapes and sizes, from industry giants such as Tarmac and Breedon to well-known names such as Rexel and ODDBOX and everything else in between.  It doesn’t matter what you are delivering but if you have a multi drop distribution operation and are looking to make changes then we can help.  Our solution includes the following as standard:

• Route planning and optimisation
• Vehicle checks
• Customer ETA notifications
• Driver tracking
• electronic Proof of Delivery (ePOD)
• Reporting

Together we can help you improve cash flow, reduce empty running across your fleet, improve delivery performance and get costs under control.