Inbound Logistics - June 2007
While most people watch episodes of The Amazing Race on TV, Georgia Tech students devised their own race - they tasked FedEx, UPS, and DHL with delivering packages to Tikrit, Iraq; Harare, Zimbabwe; Yangon, Myanmar; Floranopolis, Brazil; and Apia, Samoa, as part of the annual Great Package Race. Sixty students from the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute at Georgia Tech, with their professor, Dr. John Bartholdi, sent identical boxes containing Georgia Tech material to these out-of-the-way locations to learn which major express carrier could deliver fastest and cheapest. The carriers had no idea a competition was in progress. To read the full article, visit http://www.inboundlogistics.com/articles/trends/trends0607.shtml