1. What kind of information and services does the Web site provide for individuals, small businesses, and large businesses? List these services.
The UPS website provides information and services regarding billing, shipping, tracking, and business solution for large and small businesses, and individuals.
Services for Individuals are:
• My UPS and UPS account – This service has features such as billing information, account summary, address book, etc; and can be maintained online by the customer.
• Shipping – The customer can create and start a shipment online, calculate the time and cost for the shipment, schedule pick-ups, and create returns and imports.
• Tracking – This feature allows the customer to track packages and
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Services provided for shipping are UPS CampusShip, WorldShip, and UPS Internet shipping.
• Tracking – This feature allows customers to track packages and freights with services like Quantum view, UPS my choice, UPS Supply chain solution, Flex global view (Total tracking, supplier tracking, Inventory tracking), and Void a shipment. UPS Tracking system lets the businesses handle their staffing requirements based on the anticipated high-volume shipping and receiving.
• Freight – Services for freight are Critical Freight, Air Freight, Ocean Freight, LTL (Less then truckload) and Trucking (Full truckload), UPS Cross border connect, and UPS Freight LTL.
• Financial services – Businesses can use services like COD secure and capital merchant services, Insurance, Financing and lending for their financial needs.
• Technology solution – UPS Customer technology program, UPS developer kit, UPS ready program are services that small businesses can use for solving their technology related needs.
• UPS Communication via E-mail – The website has features like New product announcements/enhancements, promotions and offers, newsletters, service updates/ regulatory changes.
• Compass – UPS publication that features the latest product information and business insights with Blogs and articles for businesses; and real
Since 2013, UPS has updated their mission statement and core goals. Although the company addressed aspects of employee ownership, long-term growth, and social responsibility, the firm has since expanded on their commitment to sustainability and their importance on a caring corporate culture for employees and shareholders. The proposed vision statement emphasizes UPS’s strategic position to create a competitive advantage through the globalization of trade and the development of
Organizational Structure Organization structure is the differentiation; that is the way the organisation is differentiated into tasks, responsibilities, departments and hierarchies and the integration (the way the organisation is coordinated to form a unitary whole). It defines how activities in the organization are directed toward the achievement of organizational aims. The structure provides the foundation on which standard operating procedures and routines rest, determines which individuals get to participate in which decision making processes and thus to what extent their view shape the organization’s actions (Stephen, 1987) United Parcel Services Organization Chart United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is the world’s largest package delivery
This can be done at a fraction of what it would cost the businesses to build their own systems and infrastructure. This system provides businesses with a network of distribution centers, warehouses, inventory management, and customer call centers so they can take orders on their web sites.
The evolution of the express mail industry had become a quick on-time shipping and delivery of packages. The service had become effective, reliable, and prompt, which most of the top companies could deliver on these guaranteed promises 96-99% of the time. But, delivery services were only a portion of the services being offered to their customers. Carriers had mastered information management that they shared with their customers. Customers were now able to fill out labels, track the route of their package, and assisted in billing using both via carrier provided software or the Internet.
UPS customer centers are the UPS (United Parcel Service) retail locations where trained staff provide professional assistance to customers who deal with mail and package shipments in the country and worldwide. UPS customer centers are also known as UPS service locations. Although not all UPS services are available at all UPS customer centers, most are typically equipped to provide comprehensive air or ground shipment services. Depending on the type of service provided by the UPS location, a UPS customer service can be located on-site or off-site in busy city areas and at UPS franchised partners, like UPS shipping outlets, UPS authorized service providers and UPS alliance locations. Unlike other UPS locations,
UPS system is based on traditional ABC in that it takes detailed functional cost and maps it to the products based on the activities that the products drive (ups.com). UPS is a cross functional discipline, in that it identifies activities within a function or process, measures the cost associated with the activity and then assigns the cost to a product. UPS responded to technology, the market and changing times by developing new business strategies to focus on customer needs. The new change in the business environment demands the organizations to gather the relevant data and information about the customers, costs, procedures, services, products and activities (Danish, Hasan & Abid, 2013). They needed a better understanding of specific segments of their business. UPS operations are extremely complex with a wide variety of service options, operating conditions and support activities (ups.com). UPS’s ABC system is unique in that it leverages our database of work measurement and package movement detail
UPS is a global package delivery business that specializes in not only managing the movement of goods, but the information and funds that moves with those goods in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. UPS’s target market is primarily U.S. companies that ship business to business via ground delivery and whose delivery time is not
United Parcel Service (UPS), is the world’s largest express package delivery firm that handled more than 4.7 billion packages and documents in 2015. This global transportation and logistics service provider operates in more than 220 countries, and offers an array of supply chain management solutions (UPS Fact Sheet, n.d.). The firm has diversified its products and/or services to include freight forwarding and logistics services via air, ground, rail, and sea. U.S. Domestic Package operations, International Package operations, and Supply Chain and Freight operations are the three operating segments UPS. Through technology advancements UPS delivers online package tracking, e-commerce services, and specialized
UPS also offers many services, including UPS Capital, UPS Consulting, UPS Logistics, UPS Professional Services, UPS Supply Chain Solutions, and UPS Mail Innovations.
Trends and opportunities of the parcel service industry include globalization, e-commerce, and supply-chain management. Internet logistics was FedEx and UPS’s fastest growing business. The internet enabled customers to link directly to retailers and their manufacturers. In 2001, parcel carriers served almost all of the online market. They were able to provide information on packages to customers through tracking systems on the web. This allowed customers to plan ahead and decrease delays in deliveries. It also allowed for faster transactions and lower communication costs. Parcel companies created partnerships with large Internet retailers. These partnerships allowed parcel service companies to expand its overall delivery volume. Parcel companies improved tracking by implementing several technological innovations. These included “laser scanners and bar codes, state of the art software programs, satellite and cell phone communication equipment, electronic information interchanges, and the Internet.”
UPS has been in the package delivery business for 95 years, providing services to businesses and consumers worldwide in more than 200 countries. In 1994, UPS began to investigate the potential of e-commerce and started an internal group focused on enabling e-commerce. UPS redefined its core business and found ways to change its structure and processes, forming new businesses to take advantage of new opportunities. UPS was interested in finding ways to leverage their extensive infrastructure and expertise in basic transportation of goods, services, and
UPS is the largest parcel delivery service in the world. They also help their customers its customers with supply chain management,
Timely, accurate and competitively priced services are the key success factors for UPS. Moreover, the ability to provide low cost
*New Products,ServicesandBusiness Models- The information systems of UPS created new way on how to offer delivery service. It has transformed the way the company gathers information, creating routes etc.
Each DIAD IV features a built-in GPRS or CDMA radio, an acoustical modem to facilitate dial-up access if necessary, and 802.11b wireless local area network connectivity to enable transmission in a UPS center. The DIAD IV also features a Bluetooth wireless personal area network and an infrared (IrDA) port to communicate with peripheral devices and customer PCs/printers. DIAD IV introduces a revolutionary new feature - Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) - to the handheld terminal market. UPS plans to use this technology to provide drivers with more detailed directions to pick-up and delivery points in order to improve customer service. The monochrome screen on previous DIADS has been replaced with a color screen that accommodates more information which can be displayed in an easier-to-read manner. The color screen also enables UPS to color-code messages transmitted to a driver's DIAD. Urgent customer pick-up messages, for example, can be color-coded to alert the driver. In addition, the DIAD IV contains 128 megabytes of memory - 20 times the capacity of the DIAD III. UPS will use this expanded capacity to provide new and improved customer services. Like its predecessors, the DIAD IV's battery lasts an entire work day. The DIAD IV sends delivery information to the UPS data repository as soon as the delivery information is entered. Drivers simply scan the