...it to retain costs low and streamline its overall operations. The inputs of UPS’s package system are customers’ information such as names, address, dates, phone numbers, and weights. Kenneth Laudon and Jane Laudon claim “it all starts with the scannable-bar coded label which is attached to a package, which contains detailed information about the sender, the destination of the package, the recipient, and when the package should arrive. Customers can download and print their own labels using special software provided by UPS or by accessing the UPS website” (Laudon & Laudon, 2011). This case study also shows that before the package is picked up, the data from the scannable bar coded label is transmitted to one of UPS’s computer centers in Mahwah, New Jersey, or Alpharetta, Georgia and sent to the distribution center nearest its final destination. This information is processed using special software to create the outputs such as efficient delivery route for each driver that considers traffic, weather condition, and the location of each stop. The UPS has spent a great deal of money investing heavily in advanced information technology. According to the UPS website “UPS has implemented several tools and procedures, called Package Flow Technologies, to optimize delivery routes. PFT includes a suite of hardware and software designed, in part, to help drivers plan the most effective route - before a package is even loaded into a delivery vehicle” (UPS Pressroom, 2009). UPS has also revolutionized...
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...and billions of dollars to develop. It all starts with the package labeling. For each package a label is given. On the label are a barcode and a number. On the barcode UPS inputs important information about the sender, destination, and estimated arrival time. UPS uses this information to process its packages. With its automated tracking system UPS can monitor the delivery process and even re-route packages if needed. Periodically through the life cycle of a delivery barcode devices scan shipping information on the package labels to update milestones in the delivery status. Customer reps can use this information to update customers on where their package is. Customers also have the option to check themselves vi a the UPS website or mobile app. UPS utilizes a myriad of technology to insure its success. One of the most important is its Delivery Information Acquisition Device (DIAD). This is the everyday device that uploads to a wireless network and gives its drivers instructions for the day. It also captures customers’ signatures and automatically updates tracking information in the UPS system for processing and storage. From the beginning UPS promised “the best service and the lowest rate.” UPS works hard to deliver on this commitment. Going back to UPS’s label system information is sent to one of its computer centers before the package is even picked up. This information is used by dispatchers with special software to create the most efficient routes for the drivers. This includes...
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...Information System Transformed Package Delivery Business By: Tricia Jones Information technology has transformed tremendously over the years for UPS package business. The DIAD system enabled the drivers to make all of his or her deliveries without errors. For example, if the driver tries to deliver a package to the wrong customer he alerted that it is an incorrect delivery, which in turn eliminates driver error and helps to save the company money and makes the customer happy, by them getting their package on time. The DAID system has allowed for greater mobility and flexibility in the package delivery operations of UPS. It also allows UPS to track packages worldwide with its GPS and Bluetooth software. Information can be sent wirelessly which in fact would decrease the transit time, but increases reliability. UPS can also keep in touch with the driver at any time of the day via text message for whatever reasons. The UPS technology offer customers many option in keeping up with their package. From tracking their own package, freight planning, freight truck packaging optimization, in addition to basic shipment of packages. UPS has certainly achieve its objectives in many different aspect of the company. They have become more competitive, efficient and profitable. UPS has definitely evolved in the package delivery business by keeping up with technology and always trying to find new ways for its employees to safely and successfully deliver customers package on a day to day basis....
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... Packagetracking information is then transmitted to UPS’s computer network for storageand processing in UPS’s main computers in Mahwah, New Jersey, andAlpharetta, Georgia. From there, the information can be accessed worldwide toprovide proof of delivery to the customer or to respond to customer queries.(asinputs) Through its automated package tracking system, UPS can monitor packages throughout the delivery process. At various points along the route fromsender to receiver, a bar code device scans shipping information on the packagelabel; the information is then fed into the central computer. The people who areshipping packages can access the UPS website to track packages, checkdelivery roots, calculate shipping rates, determine time in transit and schedule apick up. Businesses can use the website to arrange UPS shipments and for billing the accounts. Q2. What technologies are used by UPS? How are these technologies related toUPS’s business strategy? Answer: Since 1985 UPS began to improve their data networking applications.They built up their IT network and database in order to collect and track over 200data elements for every single package. Through UPS.com new UPS could alsoserve new B2B companies to use their tracking system with only a link. UPS alsooffers a set of transportation APIs called the UPS Online Tools that allowbusinesses to integrate tracking, rating, address validation and other important jobs. Q3. What problems do UPS’s information systems solve? What...
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... Packagetracking information is then transmitted to UPS’s computer network for storageand processing in UPS’s main computers in Mahwah, New Jersey, andAlpharetta, Georgia. From there, the information can be accessed worldwide toprovide proof of delivery to the customer or to respond to customer queries.(asinputs) Through its automated package tracking system, UPS can monitor packages throughout the delivery process. At various points along the route fromsender to receiver, a bar code device scans shipping information on the packagelabel; the information is then fed into the central computer. The people who areshipping packages can access the UPS website to track packages, checkdelivery roots, calculate shipping rates, determine time in transit and schedule apick up. Businesses can use the website to arrange UPS shipments and for billing the accounts. Q2. What technologies are used by UPS? How are these technologies related toUPS’s business strategy? Answer: Since 1985 UPS began to improve their data networking applications.They built up their IT network and database in order to collect and track over 200data elements for every single package. Through UPS.com new UPS could alsoserve new B2B companies to use their tracking system with only a link. UPS alsooffers a set of transportation APIs called the UPS Online Tools that allowbusinesses to integrate tracking, rating, address validation and other important jobs. Q3. What problems do UPS’s information systems solve? What...
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...Noram Foods was considering the impact of changing their package weight standards They are considering kind of trade-off between two policies: 1st Company current policy on weight control: At least 95 per cent of all packaged net weights shipped will be above the stated net weight 2nd Country legalization: “catch weight product” means a product that because of its nature cannot normally be portioned to a predetermined quantity and is, as a result, usually sold in packages of varying quantity -We believe that a more accurate control policy could reduce costs for Noram foods but we must insure net weight does not fall bellow stated amount - Let’s go through the case to see how we can achieve the previous mentioned statement COMPANY BACKGROUND “The head office of Noram International was located in New York. Head office control was primarily financial, as part of Noram’s success was based on giving international units a large amount of local autonomy. Moreover, food tended to be subject to specific and different legislation in each country in which Noram produced its products.” • We consider this as the primary company policy for Noram foods world wide Operation for Pre-Cooked Baby Cereals: Concentrate on a specific product line they choose pre-cooked baby cereals in which unit size and weight were small and uniform. As a result it is not difficult to control “Typically, the machine was allowed to continue if the condition was...
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...external design of there house and garden I will offer a hole new verity of designs and styles to choose from along with fully custom designs if you choose this option There will be a verity of different packages to choose from Package 1-house painted Package 2-house painted and garden improved Package 3-features added to your house and garden redesigned Package 4-features added to your house and the garden is completely changed Package 5-house exterior completely redesigned and garden completely changed with added features like a clock gnomes ect Packages explained in detail: Package 1-package one is a budget house paint package which offers the cheaper version but still staying with the same high quality of work which we pride our self’s in at external desing.co Package 2-this is the more detailed house package which would contain a much better house paint package with a bigger range of colour and quality of the paint this would also be a full garden refurbishment although the layout would not be changed nut fresh grass and paving stones will be offered at an extra cost along with additional features if wanted (water feature, pond only small though) Package 3-package 3 is the first of our optimum meaning the more high quality designs and materials packages which are more expensive but more versatile, the hole outside of your house will be redesigned and customised exactly to your specification and features added to the out to the outside of your house e.g,clock...
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...Make requests for policies [PROBLEM] terms and conditions 4. Insure item, where item is above a minimum price [PROBLEM] the user shall fill in a form with the following information: 1. Which product do you want to insure ? 2. What is the value of the product 3. Provide a picture of the item 4. For how long the item will be insured ? [PROBLEM] The customer shall have a choice between diferent predifined insurance packages where insurance package is a period of time 5. Report accident of the insured item to report an incident, the customer shall provide the following informations: 1. Which insured item is concerned 2. What Happened ? 3. Where ? 4. Why ? 5. Who is responsible for the accident ? 6. Contact informations from the responsible 7. A Picture of the item after the accident * then reimbursement procedure is engaged 6. Withdraw insurance from insured item without any restriction from the app 7. Inform customers of new insurance packages some kind of promotional stuff 8. Process payments in the app 9. Communication with StuffHappens support The phone number of the support will be displayed in the app 10. Customers shall receive notifications before each subscribed insurrance is over Problems with requirements 1. Make requests for policies. Should we really make your customers make a request to see terms and conditions ? It should be way easier to display them in...
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...UPS Case Homework Questions 1. What is their business and why is package tracking important to UPS’s customers? * Shipping * Freight * Logistics * Financial * Supply Chain Management Package tracking is important to its customers because it enables the customer to utilize time management and enable the customer to ensure proper handling of its package and proper routing even after the package has been delivered to a receiving party; knowing that the package is in the hands of the recipient the sender knows they can directly contact the receiver for further tracking and handling status. 2. What information needs to be collected, how/when/where does it get collected and with whom is it shared to support the tracking of UPS shipments? [table] What information | How | Where | Whom | Tracking number from the package | A cordless optical scanner mounted on a finger ring captures tracking numbers from the packages. Then, the wireless ring scanner transmits the data to a package-tracking system carried on the hip of the package sorter | Distribution centers | Integrated with the rest of UPS’ packager tracking data worldwide to be shared by employees and customers. | | geographical position systems and cellular WiFi technologies | Transporting trucks, airplanes, and ships | | 3. Draw a detailed diagram of the various networks that are linked together by UPS to solve this problem. In each instance, identify the type of network option...
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...items to report data on each month is quite large, and to have to do a spread sheet on this is a very exhausting task. Yet to do one’s report/spreadsheet all over because one department’s information is not up to date is unacceptable. Thus it would be better to carry on with what one has in the current spread sheet, than waiting on the re-submission. Achieving Operational Excellence: Using Internet Tools to Budget for Shipping Costs The first problem I ran into is the fact that FedEx didn’t allow a package of 45lbs. so I had to ship two quantities of 20lbs which still didn’t add up to 45lbs. If the company on average ships 2 boxes then that means with FedEx I would be shipping 8 packages in a day. The delivery services offer’s various shipping time from overnight to 2day shipping. In every category UPS was cheaper than FedEx from priority to 2day shipping Ups had the advantage in a cheaper price. On the other hand USPS was the cheaper than both UPS and FedEx but packages had to be picked up. The service to choose from would have to go with UPS for they deliver to a business for a low price; obviously it unprofessional for a customer to pick up their own supplies than can be delivered to their front doors. Also UPS specifies an estimated deliver time and USPS does not. Also because it is cheaper than FedEx, I believe it also the better choice. So...
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...PAANO BA MAG JOIN SA AIM GLOBAL at anu- ano ang makukuha niyo Na mga benefits kapag nagpamember kayo.??? 1. To become an AIMtrepreneur, you only need to purchase the GLOBAL PACKAGE cost PHP 7,980 2.You need an sponsor (YUNG “NAG INVITE” SAYO!) 3. You need to complete and sign the DISTRIBUTOR APPLICATION FORM found in the global package. Sa mga mag-jojoin sa AIM GLOBAL napakaswerte nyo mga kaibigan dahil napakaganda ng combination ngayon ng mga products at benefits na makukuha nyo pag nagpamember kayo. 1. BUSINESS KIT Start-up sales kit: Folder for presentation Video Presentation CD Insurance Certificate Scholarship Certificate Company ID with processing fee (PHP 200) ATM CARD (BDO) Processing fee (PHP 200) For local ATM CARD (CHINA TRUST) Processing fee (PHP 500) For international The ATM will be used for your daily and monthly income. 2. WEBSITE/WEBPAGE Your own account in AIM Global's computer system that monitors all your and your group's successful sales transactions. (kahit nasaang part ka ng mundo namomonitor mo ang BUSINESS mo) (wala kang babayarang secretary, accountant at pwesto) (open siya 24hours a day ONLINE) (para syang sarili mong FACEBOOK ACCOUNT 3. TECHNOLOGY SERVICES Real-time internet-based access to your account 24/7. All members enjoy the following benefits. 4. DISCOUNTS- Enjoy 25% lifetime discounts on all AIM Global's Products. (lifetime) 5. PERSONAL ACCIDENT INSURANCE (by Prudential ...
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...NEWS for R version 3.0.3 (2014-03-06) NEWS R News CHANGES IN R 3.0.3 NEW FEATURES: • On Windows there is support for making ‘.texi’ manuals using texinfo 5.0 or later: the setting is in file ‘src/gnuwin32/MkRules.dist’. A packaging of the Perl script and modules for texinfo 5.2 has been made available at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/. • write.table() now handles matrices of 231 or more elements, for those with large amounts of patience and disc space. • There is a new function, La_version(), to report the version of LAPACK in use. • The HTML version of ‘An Introduction to R’ now has links to PNG versions of the figures. • There is some support to produce manuals in ebook formats. (See ‘doc/manual/Makefile’. Suggested by Mauro Cavalcanti.) • On a Unix-alike Sys.timezone() returns NA if the environment variable TZ is unset, to distinguish it from an empty string which on some OSes means the ‘UTC’ time zone. • The backtick may now be escaped in strings, to allow names containing them to be constructed, e.g. \ . (PR#15621) • read.table(), readLines() and scan() now warn when an embedded nul is found in the input. (Related to PR#15625 which was puzzled by the behaviour in this unsupported case.) • (Windows only.) file.symlink() works around the undocumented restriction of the Windows system call to backslashes. (Wish of PR#15631.) • KalmanForecast(fast = FALSE) is now the default, and the help contains an example of how fast = TRUE can be used in this version. (The usage will...
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...Software package promotion Prepared for: Mr. John Andre (Lecturer) Unit 14: Working with and leading people ITP-Banking Academy, Hanoi BTEC HND in Business (Finance) Word number: Prepared by Tiamo group Pham Duy- Shady- F03-041 Le Thi Minh Hang- Miley- F03-050 Hoang Tra Ly- Selena- F03- Do Bao Ngoc- Tracy-F03-118 Hoang Hong Nhung- Ken – F03- 124 Ha Noi, 25/6/2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Safety Chat is new instant messaging application in the world. It brings to the users private software from hackers so it focuses on the individual privacy. As marketing team members, reporters must evaluate the styles or impacts of leadership. Then analyze the works needed as well as development activities for each team member and showing how to empower the employees as well as setting suitable objectives to produce the best promotional activity plan. MAIN BODY 3a. Evaluate theories and styles of leadership: Leadership is the process of influencing others to work willingly towards goals, to the best of their capabilities, perhaps in a manner different to that which they would otherwise have chosen. (Education, 2004) There are so many styles of leadership, according to Huneryager and Heckman, leadership has four different styles which are dictatorial style, autocratic style, democratic style and laisser-faire style (Education, 2012). In this assignment, the reporter chooses dictatorial style and democratic style for evaluating. Dictatorial style is where...
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...The part 1 of this 2-part series of copying add-on domains to new cPanel accounts involved outlining and discussing of the first four steps, which included creating backups, creating new accounts, extracting the backups, and importing the databases. In this second and final part of the series, it will contain the remaining 6 steps, including updating the cron paths all the way to copying all your email account information. Just follow the remaining steps and you will have your add-on domains copied to your new accounts in no time. Step 5. Updating your cron paths. Follow these steps to update your new account’s cron paths: Locate and open your /home/backup-$username/$username/cron/$username file. Make sure that you find all of the required crons in this add-on domain. Navigate to your cPanel account’s Cron Jobs interface and then add all of the crons to your new account. You can find the Cron Jobs interface by starting at your Home page, then Advanced, and finally, Cron Jobs. Step 6. Change the ownership of the file. Executing the chown command will provide ownership to your $newuser for all the public_html files you just made copies of. Just run the command: “find /home/$newusername/public_html -uid 0 -exec chown $newusername:$newusername {} +” (remove the quotation marks) to perform this step. Step 7: Make sure the account operates perfectly. A single mistake, like a typo in any of the commands required for this task may result in a malfunctioning...
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...Legal and Ethical Responsibilities Paper Brian Ruddick MGT/567 Nov 13th, 2012 Dr. Burgoon Legal and Ethical Responsibilities Memo To: Company owner From: VP of Human Resources Subject: Reduce incentives and layoff proposal Sir, as VP of Human Resources, I would advise you to highly reconsider your proposal to reduce incentive payments for salespeople and implementing a month-long layoff for all production workers. Although you are legally within your rights to do so, however from an ethical stand point, reducing incentive payments and laying off some of our lowest paid employees while the higher paid managers are completely un-effected in this cost reduction effort can be considered unethical. This proposal will be economically devastating to most of our sales and production force and possibly counterproductive to our company itself. If we implement the reduce incentives and layoff as currently proposed, the potential for future complications is highly probable. We face the likeliness of low employee morale, substandard sales efforts, and the potential loss of other valued employees due to fear off being laid off. We will also loose of internal and external stakeholder confidence as well as our reputation as an employee friendly company that will hinder future hiring of top applicants. I believe ethical responsibilities are crucial in the workplace because a tough ethical code provides a non-threatening environment with high...
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