A Game of Inches To sustain growth, UPS executives are looking for new efficiencies. For example. the: are seeking to make work standards for truck mechanics more exact. And at UPS’s Parsippany, New Jersey, package sorting hub, I of more than 100 that the company operates. officials are making the most of space by parking …
Burgeoning Competition If the competition intensifies, productivity improvements will be at the heart of UPS”s counterattack. Indeed, UPS long has used efficiency to overcome rivals. Founded in Seattle in 1907 as a messenger service, UPS over the years won parcel deliveries from department stores and captured package business once handJed by the U.S. Postal Service …
New Competition Those techniques are about to he tested. Long engaged in a the: L.S. Postal Service. UPS recently has charged into overnight deli. er} against Federal Express Corporation, Purolator Courier, Airborne Freight, Emery Air Freight, and others. What’ more. it now is being challenged on its own turf by Roadway Services Inc., which in the …
Getting Up to Speed At UPS, more than 1,000 industrial engineers use time studies to set standards for a myriad of closely supervised tasks. Drivers are instructed to walk to a customer’s door at the brisk pace of three feet per second and to knock first lest seconds be lost searching for the doorbell. Supervisors …
Up to Speed: United Parcel Service Gets Deliveries Done by Driving Its Workers. Grabbing a package under his arm. Joseph Policy, a driver for United Parcel Service (UPS), bounds from his brown delivery truck and toward an office building here. A few paces behind him, Marjorie Cusack, a UPS industrial engineer, clutches a digital timer. …
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