Management and Admin Job cuts

[Work right slow and safe]

I was just watching CNBC and they stated that UPS is going to cut 1800 Management and Admin and raised there forcast for this year

[tarbar66]

I was just watching CNBC and they stated that UPS is going to cut 1800 Management and Admin and raised there forcast for this year

Wall Street likes the news, UPS is up over $2.00 a share so far today!

[over9five]

Related thread here.

[FAVREFAN]

Lol, someone just woke from a coma.

[moreluck]

I take this as good news. UPS will be operating lean & mean !! I think the shareholders like it too. Now all the rank & file won't have as many upper mgmt. to hate.

FDX is probably running fat and frayed!

[Highwayman]

UPS has always been mean. Now they will just be a little more lean.

[Brown287]

UPS has proved once again that the"one company" model is an asset. The fact that UPS is able to control cost from A to Z is a definite advantage when it comes to generating profit. I believe that UPS having higher then expected profit is great news for us, but not so much for either the USPS or FDX. I'm not always happy with what Atlanta decides but its good to see that apparently they know how to squeeze out profit.

[bbsam]

UPS has proved once again that the"one company" model is an asset. The fact that UPS is able to control cost from A to Z is a definite advantage when it comes to generating profit. I believe that UPS having higher then expected profit is great news for us, but not so much for either the USPS or FDX. I'm not always happy with what Atlanta decides but its good to see that apparently they know how to squeeze out profit.

With the squeezing do you think they will squeeze drivers harder also?

[soberups]

With the squeezing do you think they will squeeze drivers harder also?

They are welcome to try.

[pretzel_man]

With the squeezing do you think they will squeeze drivers harder also?

This is going to be a painful change, but IF done right a very positive one.

District and Regions are much bigger than today with less management. District Managers will be held to a P&L statement AND service. (At least that's what Myron says. (By the way, Myron is a very good and smart man and responsible for this now).

This has the potential to do two things....

First, less micro management becasue there is just no time.

Second, make decisions that are P&L based instead of metric based. I've said before that metrics are good, but only if they don't get in the way of what the true goal is.

These changes may truly focus the district on the right behaviors.

So, the caveat is whether we really have good enough management who can think this way. This means that they would need to work under broad guidelines (like the policy book says) and make local decisions on what is right.

We have a lot of management that only know how to work under strict rules...

As I said in a different thread, this change is much, much different than things we have done before. The focus on cost should NEVER go away, but it has to be the right focus. This change may enable that.

P-Man