Supply Chain Digest - April 20, 2008
As usual in the 2008 edition of "The Great Package Race," a student project sponsored by The Supply Chain & Logistics Institute at Georgia Tech parcel carriers were challenged to deliver packages to some of the most remote or difficult locations in the world. In the 2007 race, DHL came away the clear winner. In 2008, UPS and FedEx made a strong comeback, with nearly identical delivery times to two of the five destinations, although none of the four carriers (DHL, FedEx, UPS, and USPS) thus far have been able to get packages into three other ship-to locations. The students ship four identical packages, one for each carrier, to far flung and often dangerous locations. . . .The students also note that UPS did much better this year in handling packages it deemed undeliverable.
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