{"50172":{"#nid":"50172","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The 2007 Great Package Race is Underway","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHow do packages actually get from sender to consignee? Each carrier has its own freight network through which a package travels and the experience of each package depends on the construction of the network. For fun, each year Professor John Bartholdi\u0027s class coordinates a race where they track packages sent from ISyE\u0027s Supply Chain and Logistics Institute at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA (USA) to sites around the world via different international parcel carriers (UPS, Fedex, DHL).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn Friday, April 13th, Professor Bartholdi\u0027s class contacted UPS, FedEx, and DHL to carry identical packages to contacts in:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003EYangon\u003C\/strong\u003E: until recently, capital of Myanmar; formerly known as Rangoon, Burma\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003ETikrit\u003C\/strong\u003E: administrative center of the province of Salah ad Din, Iraq\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003EHarare\u003C\/strong\u003E: the capital of Zimbabwe\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003EFlorianopolis\u003C\/strong\u003E: an island off the coast of southern Brazil\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003EApia\u003C\/strong\u003E, Samoa: in the western pacific\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESites are chosen based on locations that challenge the business processes of the multinational package carriers. It is remarkable that most packages eventually reach their destinations, even under difficult circumstances, but there have been some dramatic lapses. One package was carried back-and-forth across the Atlantic Ocean nine times before delivery. Another was sent to Costa Rica instead of Croatia. One carrier claimed that the destination country did not exist. (It does.)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere have been dramatic finishes as well. In 2006, UPS beat DHL to Croatia by 3 minutes. One race ended in a tie when delivery folk from competing companies arrived at the door simultaneously, even though the packages had taken completely different routes to the destination. Technically FedEx made the delivery first, but we gave extra credit to the UPS person for courtesy in holding the door.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor John Bartholdi, Manhattan Associates Professor of Supply Chain Management and Research Director of the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL), coordinates a race each year where his students track packages sent from SCL at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA (USA) to sites around the world via different international parcel carriers (UPS, Fedex, DHL).\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The 2007 Great Package Race is Underway"}],"uid":"27216","created_gmt":"2007-05-31 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:12","author":"Ruth Gregory","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2007-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"50173":{"id":"50173","type":"image","title":"Great Package Race is underway. 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