A small subsidiary of UPS is making a big impact on behalf of its customers through the deployment of computer software that allows exquisitely precise planning of delivery routes.
The software, known as the Roadnet™ Transportation Suite, is offered by UPS Logistics Technologies and is being used by grocery stores, beverage bottlers and snack food companies, among others, to shave miles off their delivery networks.
Read MoreUPS has announced new rates for most U.S. services effective Jan. 5, 2004. UPS commercial ground services will increase 1.9% with U.S. air and UPS Worldwide Express services increasing an average of 2.9%. The premium for packages and letters delivered to residential addresses will rise from $1.15 to $1.40.
UPS also will introduce a $1.00 delivery surcharge to commercial shipments headed to more remote ZIP codes. These ZIP codes are the same as those covered by the current residential delivery area surcharge, which was first applied in 1999 and remains at $1.75. The majority of UPS’s accessorial charges stay the same.
Read MoreA prominent international scientific society has awarded UPS the 2003 INFORMS Prize for integrating operations research and managerial decision-making.
The Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) said it was honoring UPS because the company had so embraced the application of operational research and managerial science as to affect the overall success of the entire organization.
Read MoreHSN has engaged UPS in a multi-year agreement to streamline and re-engineer its entire fulfillment and supply chain operations.
“HSN is committed to providing our customers an exceptional shopping experience from start to finish, and UPS is helping us reach new standards of excellence through its broad capabilities,” said Mark Ethier, HSN executive vice president of operations. “At no incremental cost to our customers, we will significantly improve our level of service through faster, more reliable delivery.”
Read MoreUPS is trying to win parcel traffic away from the U.S. Postal Service and then give it right back.
The company is testing a new service called UPS Basic that will use the USPS’s own delivery network for the last leg of delivery in parts of United States, offering cost savings over regular postal and UPS Ground service in a bid to capture business from the USPS and consolidators.
The service marks a new step in the growing competition for ground delivery in the U.S. parcel market and FedEx says it is already talking with the Postal Service about a program of its own.
UPS and FedEx plan to exploit a provision in Postal Service operations that gives consolidators that deliver presorted parcels to postal facilities far cheaper rates than regular parcel shippers.
“This is a program that’s open to everyone,” Postal Service spokesman Gerry McKiernan said. “And UPS has decided to take advantage of it. I don’t have an opinion. It’s neutral. It doesn’t matter. We’re delighted to have customers.”
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