The UPS Company was founded in 1907, and is currently the leading express carrier and largest package delivery company. As a multinational company, it is currently active worldwide and employed 430 000 people (including 2,000 in France), has 147 000 vehicles and 500 planes. It is the ninth biggest airline and provided daily flights in 2000.
Originally based in Atlanta (Georgia, USA), it is deployed in 200 countries and territories in which it delivers 15.6 million packages and documents. This is a private profit making business that is diversified as its business is a leading provider of services, specialized in transportation, logistics, capital and e-commerce.
UPS is listed in the New York Stock Exchange; the transport company uses the system to generate shareholder equity. The brown work clothes of its employees have become so symbolic that they have nicknamed themselves the "browns" and have now it as a registered trademark.
UPS is a company that is already highly organized, highly formalized and planned at any point. Its imposing structure did not allow it to remain highly centralized, but the structure allowed a strong geographic division of control through the chiefs of sectors or divisions.
The age and size of the firm can explain the ultra favorable express delivery, as well as the high technical and technological level that is a key priority to maintain this leadership.
The turnover of UPS in 2001 reached $30.6 billion and steadily increased from there. Similarly, the profits totaled to $2.5 billion, in the same year as the stock market and it has risen by 17% during that year alone. Always innovative, UPS has the largest fleet in the world of compressed natural gas vehicles.
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[...] The giant of delivery is organized into a structure of type that is divisional. At UPS each industry (production, administration, accounting) or service (reception, distribution, delivery) to a division director is geographically limited. Include the continental divide (Europe) and more locally the national division (France) or regional. This decentralization allows better localization and a faster rise of information to the company management. Unit size is based on two elements: we can say that we are in a maximum because UPS is a multinational with operations worldwide. [...]
[...] This is the case of international postal companies: FedEx, DHL and TNT. The power The question of power of American business needs to be addressed: At a formal level where you notice that the rules are very strict and they are strictly enforced. The same procedures are explained clearly and are set in a real normative framework. From the perspective of informal we note that what happens in the business is consistent with the limited flexibility that allows management. As a result, certain conflicts exist, certainly as in all societies, but this gives rise to areas of uncertainty and power plays. [...]
[...] Again it is the experience that UPS pays for its years of exercises allowing it to reduce complexity by referring to the past to predict the future at best. It is clear that some parameters such as changes in economic and trade are difficult to predict. However the analysis of previous figures can dampen flow fluctuations and provide the means to ensure their commitments. Diversity is relative; even though UPS is trying to expand these services to those customers it remains dedicated entirely to the express delivery sector so we cannot say that this company is multi-sectoral. [...]
[...] Casey this company was a small local structure. Over the years it has diversified its business growth and now it is a multinational firm. It is powerful and crushes other players in the express delivery sector. It seems that its infrastructure and its historical location gave it an advantage to stay ahead. Technical and technological system How technology affects its position? UPS is in a spirit of mass production, there is no room for the traditional technology, unlike the peak it just keeps getting more spacious in the daily actions. [...]
[...] Brown work clothes of its employees has become so symbolic that they dubbed themselves the "browns" and is now a registered trademark. Detailed figures: The turnover in 2001 amounted to $ 30.6 billion it is steadily increasing. Similarly, profits totaled to $ 2.5 billion the same year as the stock market has suffered a 17% increase during that year. Always innovative, UPS has the largest fleet in the world of compressed natural gas vehicle. - Trades: Collected, sorted and distributed quickly, logistics - Knowledge: Information Processing. [...]
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