Federal Express and United Postal Services Federal Express (FedEx) corporation offers transportation, e-commerce and business services with the help of several companies that are doing business under one brand. The company has four business segments such as FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, FedEx Freight, and FedEx Services (FedEx Corporation, 2012). On the other hand, United Parcel Service (UPS) is the world’s largest package delivery company and leader in providing global supply chain management solutions
There are several reasons that FedEx has been successful. The major reason is that they have a enviable corporate culture and workforce. Employee's are critical to the success of any company, especially at FedEx. The company tries to hire the best candidates and offers them what is considered the best training and compensation in their industry. In turn this causes their employees to be loyal as well as very efficient, and extremely effective in providing excellent customer service. Fortune has named
Less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping: Average daily LTL Shipments & Total LTL Revenue per Shipment FedEx Freight, one of the major operating companies in Fedex is using less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping to manage the business. LTL is a class of freight shipping that are between small-package and full-truckload carriers. Fedex is the only LTL carrier to offer two options — Priority and Economy. The function of FedEx Freight® Priority is it provides fast-transit delivery of time-sensitive freight to
Astra Tatiana BMGT 370 Professor: Geoffrey Milson UPS’ S IPO The article talks about United Parcel Services. The Package delivery service was created in 1990 has become a strong force in 1999 with a net worth of $ 43 billion industry serving a wide variety of customer. The industry offered two types of delivery services, Air and Ground. Air delivery allowed customers to ship their parcels overnight. The delivery times ranged from two to three days and the packages are usually small. Furthermore
Discussion Although FedEx has a reputation as an innovative company, has a strong position in its market, has a strong stock price, and reports strong revenues; there were still many concerning issues revealed by the financial ratios and financial statements analyses in the previous sections. These specific areas of concern are management’s inability to effectively utilize debt and assets as evidenced by the low ROE and ROA figures, the low net-margins compared to UPS that also demonstrate a concerning
DK Express About DK Express DK Express is a family owned and operated transportation and asset tracking entity operating out of Garden Grove, CA. For over 35 years, the company has been hauling containers in and out of Los Angeles and Long Beach ports in California straight to consumers throughout the US. The company was established by two brothers and a friend who saw a massive opportunity to provide drayage service for the two largest ports in California. The logistics are undertaken via 24 hours