With governments implementing self-quarantine measures for its citizens amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, daily tasks like getting the groceries and other items become a little trickier to do. FarEye, a predictive logistics platform, today announced that it will work with companies globally and equip them with its home delivery optimization software to handle surge in home deliveries with available drivers, quickly onboard part-time drivers and make deliveries contactless.
The pandemic combined with growing anxiety is adding tremendous pressure on delivery operations. While on one hand there is a major disruption in the supply chain, there is also a high variability in consumer demand. The increasing lockdowns are putting more pressure on home deliveries of essential goods as people are in social distancing and not going to the shops and malls. Retailers and delivery companies are struggling to scale their delivery operations and make grocery, sanitizers, medicines, food available for all.
Its solution, FarEye SERVE is all remote and will be aiding organizations make home deliveries of essential items like food and medicines until June 30, 2020 and deliveries to hospital sites and for supply of food and medicines for non-government organizations that are responding to the crisis until September 30, 2020. The system can increase coverage and deliveries through intelligent routing as well as provide contactless deliveries through a wallet-enabled app with no card and cash transactions. Drivers also get a smartphone app to ensure real-time communication with customers. For those short on manpower, it also lets organizations onboard temporary staff immediately.
“More than 219,000 cases of Coronavirus have surfaced globally and as a reaction, country-wide lockdowns are quickly expanding, triggering an avalanche of uncertainties about the future. Our hearts and prayers go out to those who have been impacted by the virus and hope for their speedy recovery. This pandemic has put a mandatory reset button on all of us and is pushing everyone to reflect and realize how everything is temporary and fragile. We want to lean in and do our bit by offering our optimization technology as a support to ensure seamless movement of essential goods in the midst of this crisis,” says Kushal Nahata, CEO of FarEye.
FarEye shall be on-boarding the businesses remotely and instantly and will offer services to businesses of any size, who are moving goods from stores to customers and hospitals where impacted patients reside.
