Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe Community Center
Current Events
Tie VS Monte
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 79162" data-attributes="member: 4805"><p>Monte, you are making an easy mistake in your math. You are thinking that a percentage growth in one sector is equivalent to a growth in total volume, which is incorrect. An 8% increase in international volume does <strong>not </strong>mean an 8% growth in total volume. I don't know the exact numbers are for each segment, so here's a very simple example. Say your <em>total </em>volume is 100 packages, of which 1 is international and 99 are domestic. If you gain 1 more package in each segment, it means a 1% increase in domestic volume and a 100% increase in international volume, but you don't add those together and tell people you had a 101% increase in total volume, because your increase in total volume was actually just 2%.</p><p> I don't know how much of your total volume is international, but even if it's 25% (and I suspect it's less than that), an 8% increase in international only works out to a 2% increase in total volume. </p><p>Apply the same math to the growth in fedex ground, and I sincerely doubt that you will come up with a 13% increase in total volume. I'm guessing 2%-3% is a more likely result. Any growth is good growth though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jones, post: 79162, member: 4805"] Monte, you are making an easy mistake in your math. You are thinking that a percentage growth in one sector is equivalent to a growth in total volume, which is incorrect. An 8% increase in international volume does [B]not [/B]mean an 8% growth in total volume. I don't know the exact numbers are for each segment, so here's a very simple example. Say your [I]total [/I]volume is 100 packages, of which 1 is international and 99 are domestic. If you gain 1 more package in each segment, it means a 1% increase in domestic volume and a 100% increase in international volume, but you don't add those together and tell people you had a 101% increase in total volume, because your increase in total volume was actually just 2%. I don't know how much of your total volume is international, but even if it's 25% (and I suspect it's less than that), an 8% increase in international only works out to a 2% increase in total volume. Apply the same math to the growth in fedex ground, and I sincerely doubt that you will come up with a 13% increase in total volume. I'm guessing 2%-3% is a more likely result. Any growth is good growth though. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe Community Center
Current Events
Tie VS Monte
Top