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MotionTools LogTech News 09/2024

In this issue: Rewe and Lieferando start collaboration, Flink bags $150Mio, how to build tours manually in MotionTools, and the Release Notes for September.

Anna-Philine Lübbke
September 25, 2024
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Dear Reader

At MotionTools and in the logistics world, a lot has happened this month. We have compiled the most interesting topics for you in this September edition of our LogTech News.

We look forward to feedback or references to articles and topics that should not be missed in our next issue. Just write us an email at news@motiontools.com

In this issue (3 min reading time)

📢  Industry news

  • Rewe and Lieferando start collaboration in 40 cities
  • Flink receives $150 million growth capital

✅ Best practices

  • Digitize your customer relationships with our customer portal
  • Build tours manually using the merge with preview feature

🤝 Community updates

  • New website for our customer BeFresh

🦾 Release notes

  • September 2024

📢  Industry news

Rewe and Lieferando start collaboration in 40 cities

Lieferando is expanding its strategic partnerships: After starting a pilot project with Tchibo last month, the company is now also working with Rewe. Over 3000 products from the supermarket chain can now be ordered via Lieferando which Flink will deliver within 45 minutes.

Flink receives $150 million growth capital

With the fresh capital coming from investors including Mubadala, Northzone, and REWE, the company plans to add 30 new hubs in Germany and the Netherlands over the next 12 months, in addition to their existing 146 hubs.

✅ Best practices

Digitize your customer relationships with our customer portal

Learn in Patricks Demo how customers can track their shipments in real-time and create new bookings, enabling seamless and efficient customer interaction. (German only)

Build tours manually using the merge with preview feature

Once your customers' bookings have been received in MotionTools, dispatchers can plan optimized routes and hand them over to drivers within minutes. Patrick shows you how this works in this demo. (German only)

🤝 Community updates

New website for our customer BeFresh

Last week, we launched a new website for our customer BeFresh Logistic, who specializes in end to end logistics solutions for fresh produce. Besides offering custom solutions based on standard software, we always go above and beyond to ensure the success of our customers. That's why we are offering a wide range of professional services like building custom websites, running performance marketing campaigns or even prototyping entirely new features.

🦾 Release notes

Offering Services per Service areas

MotionTools now allows configuring service availability by service area and setting an ops configuration for each service and service area combination. This change will be rolled out at the beginning of October.

Quick view of other updates:
  • Attaching PDFs to user profiles
  • Driver’s phone number display option
  • Duplicating packages
  • Support for custom durations on the Dashboard

Read the full release notes in our help center

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