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Back to the Basics: How Delivery Management Software Can Transform Your Business
Using Delivery Management Software as a Tool to Grow Your Business GetSwift offers the best delivery management software, offering you powerful tools so that you can maximize your last mile delivery services. We started GetSwift because we were in the delivery...
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Back to the Basics: What is the Best Delivery Management Software?
Running a small to medium-sized business or a startup is definitely no walk along a white, sandy beach, with the sun setting over the ocean, and a pina colada in one hand. In fact, most of the time, it’s quite the opposite. It’s an all-out sprint from the moment you...
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Back to the Basics: What is Last Mile Delivery?
If you’ve ever run a race, you know that the last mile can be the most difficult part. Yet, when you see the finish line, you usually have a last burst of energy to plow you through to the end, mainly because you just want the pain, agony, and, oftentimes, the mental...
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The Challenges of Last-Mile Delivery
Last-mile delivery is becoming more and more important, regardless of the type of goods you sell. With the rise of e-commerce, the competition has gotten fierce — not only among ecomm competitors, but for brick and mortar stores looking to stand their ground. But...
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Walmart is Using Its Stores As Online Warehouses To Deliver A Faster Last Mile
Walmart is taking aim at Amazon's dominance of online retail, and a big part of its strategy is using more than a thousand of their physical stores essentially as delivery warehouses. By the end of 2020, Walmart plans to deliver online orders from 1,600 of its retail...
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Why Even Small Businesses Need Delivery Management Software
If you’re in charge of a small business, you have an endless list of things to manage. From scheduling and order fill to customer service and payroll, you need all the help you can get to keep things running smoothly. Even if you have a very small business with...
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How To Find the Right Delivery Service Software For Your Company
If you’re looking for tools to help manage orders, improve customer satisfaction, track deliveries, and grow your business, you’re probably thinking of enlisting the help of technology. Delivery service software is a necessity for businesses interested in optimizing...
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How To Compete with the Rising Cost of Running a Restaurant
If you manage a restaurant, you’re probably well-aware of the constant struggle to maintain profit margin despite continuous increases in labor and supply chain costs. To make things worse, restaurant owners are participating in delivery platforms like UberEats and...
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Case Study: Foodkart Taps GetSwift For Last-Mile Delivery
If you’re in the food delivery business, it can be very challenging to manage your network of restaurants and delivery drivers, especially if you are covering a large, metropolitan area. But thankfully, there are tools available that can help you manage all of the...
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Making AI Smarter by Eliminating Flawed Data Jim Barnebee, GetSwift’s VP for AI and Infrastructure, was granted a US Patent for his pioneering work with knowledge graphs.
GetSwift's VP of AI Jim Barnebee Artificial intelligence algorithms require gobs of data. With each introduction of new and varied data sets, machine learning applications mature. The better and more comprehensive the data, the better the outcome. But what happens...
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Delivering Results In the Delivery Business
To say that the business of delivering goods is expanding is a huge understatement. The steady rise of e-commerce and the surge of home delivery for everything from lipstick to lobsters have made the need for delivery businesses greater than ever. And many people have...
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Dispatch Software — A Tool Your Business Can’t Do Without
Dispatching is part of the supply chain process that involves organizing transportation and assigning drivers. Anyone who has experience with dispatching knows that it involves many moving parts, countless details, and a small army of people to keep everything running...
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Data: The Key to Improving Customer Experience
If you’re in the delivery business, you know that customer experience is everything. A late delivery here, an incorrect order there, and before you know it your customer reviews are plummeting. And everyone knows how important online reviews are when your potential...
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Get Behind Technology…Or Get Left Behind
In today’s competitive market, you have to find effective ways to set yourself apart from the competition. If you’re still using antiquated methods for tracking orders, scheduling deliveries, and communicating with your customers, it’s time to take a step in the right...
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Last Mile Delivery Frequently Asked Questions
Last mile delivery is one of the most discussed topics in shipping and logistics. In a relatively short period of time, it has become a key factor in being able to deliver the experience that customers have come to expect, and it has also become a pain point for those...
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