Delivery Methods
Unmanned aircraft deliver small packages.
What is Drone Delivery?
Products go directly from the manufacturer or seller to the customer.
What is Direct-to-Consumer?
Delivered on the same day the order is placed.
What is Same-Day Delivery?
Products are delivered directly to a customer's house or apartment.
What is Home Delivery?
Amazon, grocery, and furniture deliveries are usually delivered by this method.
What is a truck?
Self-driving vehicles transport products.
What is Autonomous Vehicle Delivery?
Products move from manufacturers to warehouses to stores where customers purchase them.
What is Retail Distribution?
Delivered the following day.
What is Next Day Delivery?
Products are delivered to offices, factories, restaurants, or stores.
What is Business or Commercial Delivery?
Cars, trucks, building materials, grain, and food that need to be transported long distances and then transferred to trucks are transported by this method.
What is Rail Delivery?
Small robots make short-distance deliveries.
What are delivery robots?
The entire process of moving goods from raw materials to customers.
What is a Supply Chain?
This type of delivery usually takes several days.
What is Standard Delivery?
Customers order online and pick up the item at a retail location.
What is Store Pickup?
Overnight packages, medical supplies, electronics that require fast delivery are usually shipped by this method.
The final step of getting a product to the customer.
What is Last Mile delivery?
The retailer takes the order, but a third-party supplier ships directly to the customer.
What is Drop Shipping?
The act of processing and shipping customer orders.
What is Fulfillment?
Employees bring products directly to a customer's vehicle.
What is Curbside Pickup?
Clothing, imported cars and trucks, consumer good that come from other countries are usually transported using this method.
What is Ocean Freight Delivery?
Independent drivers deliver products using apps.
What is crowdsourced delivery?
Products are delivered on a recurring schedule.
What is Subscription Delivery?
Faster than standard shipping but not necessarily overnight.
What is Expedited Delivery?
Products are delivered to secure lockers for customers to retrieve later.
What is Locker Pickup?
Coal, Petroleum, and agricultural products that are delivered inland, by water, are transported using this method.
What is Inland Water Delivery?