Reimagining Delivery.
Insights and advice for your growing delivery business.
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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GetSwift’s Last-Mile Software Helps Culinary Care Deliver Free Meals to Chicago Cancer Patients, Prepare for National Rollout
Culinary Care was delivering thousands of meals a year around the city, and she needed a software platform to keep ensure patients were never left hungry on account of a delivery mishap.
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Optimize Your Food Delivery Business: The Real Cost Of Going a Few Miles Out of the Way
There are many challenges when it comes to running a food delivery business. Especially if you are a smaller business with only a limited number of employees and vehicles, it can be extremely difficult to manage all of the moving parts necessary to ensure you are...
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Challenges of Growing a Courier Business
If you’ve always thought of starting your own business, now is a better time than ever. With the increase in demand for next-day and even same-day delivery of nearly everything, there’s a very real need for couriers that can deliver these goods. While starting any...
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NYC Construction Supply Executive: GetSwift’s Saas Platform Helped Us Grow 25% with One Less Worry
During the daily 6am truck loading, AllFasteners USA LLC was once consumed by piles of paperwork and a scramble to match orders with drivers bound for constructions sites across New York City. The dispatcher could easily become overwhelmed. But after adopting...
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