United Parcel Service

Table of Contents

About United Parcel Service

History

Corporate Culture

Resources

Operations

Limitations /Problems

Business Relationships , Alliances , Partnerships

Future Plans

Summary /Comments

References

United Parcel Service

United Parcel Service , Inc , is the largest global package courier and supply chain management company . In 2007 , the company has 15 million deliveries per day to its more than six million clients in 200 nations worldwide (UPS , 2008 . It trades in the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol UPS . The company is based in Sandy Springs

, Georgia since 1991 . The company 's operations are divided into three segments Supply Chain Freight , International Package , and U .S . Domestic Package

The domestic package unit in the United States is in charge with the delivery of packages like letters , documents and other parcels weighing no more than 150 pounds in the different states within a specified time Deliveries of parcels and small packages are made using an integrated air and ground network for pick-up and delivery

The international division , as the name implies , takes care of all deliveries outside the United States . Its biggest market outside the United States is Europe , which contributes to about half of the international revenue . The services offered in Europe are similar to what are provided in the home country using the same integrated pick-up and delivery network . Due to an increase of business in its European operation , UPS expanded its automated sorting of packages at the Cologne , Germany hub to 110 ,000 parcels every hour . Notably , the company is seeing higher than the industry growth in its Asian operations , allowing it to increase the number of non-stop flights from the U .S . to Shanghai in China and Nagoya in Japan

Its supply chain services is the company 's logistics and forwarding division in about 175 nations around the world . Responding to the changing needs of complex and large companies , UPS provides supply chains that offer a wide portfolio of services other than the traditional warehousing and vehicle provisions

I . History

Using 100 as start-up capital , American Messenger Co . was founded in 1907 by Jim Casey and Claude Ryan as a messenger and delivery company in Seattle . The name was changed to its current one only in 1919 , a year after the third member of the firm , Charles Soderstrom , was recruited

From its simple beginnings , the company sustained its operations and began to expand its services with the purchase of a delivery van in 1913 . By 1930 , the company had expanded its delivery services from the Seattle area to include New York and Oakland . Soon after , UPS had already began operating in the major cities in the midwest and in the east . It was at this point that the company adopted the brown-colored vehicles because they were considered professional , neat and dignified Over the years , UPS continued to expand its operations to the different states in the country through the acquisition of common carrier licenses

By 1975 , UPS was already serving 48 states , and had began operations in Canada through...