automation

How UPS Plans To Keep Up With Deliveries This Holiday Season - WCCO An automation process that cuts out some manual labor and speeds things up significantly, as 20,000 packages an hour can move through during their peak times.

UPS Expands Facility with Automation - Supply Chain Management Review The parcel carrier used a turnkey automation solution to increase the hub by 1 million square feet. When global parcel carrier UPS opened its Louisville Centennial Ground Operations Hub in 2007, the company already planned...

Philly finally gets a million-square-foot warehouse - but not the thousands of jobs: UPS on Red Lion - Philadelphia Inquirer It hasn’t been announced by the company, but the Inquirer has confirmed that United Parcel Service plans to build a million-square-foot facility on the 138-acre former...

UPS’s $20 Billion Problem: Operations Stuck in the 20th Century- Wall Street Journal As the package giant tries to satisfy America’s 21st-century shopping-and-shipping mania, it is striving to bring its delivery network out of a past era In the sticky Southern heat, hundreds of workers...

UPS goes back to business in $20 billion automation push - Reuters United Parcel Service Inc is bolstering services to boost shipments between businesses as part of a $20 billion push to automate its network and offset lower-profit home deliveries from Amazon.com and other online retailers...

Profits are down at UPS as it ramps up investments to cut the cost of home deliveries - Digital Commerce 360 UPS is stepping up investment to increase automation, buy cargo planes and build sorting facilities as it seeks to navigate a changing competitive landscape. United Parcel Service...

our hub is upgrading to automation and also about to move over to that part of the building soon, it is 3/4 bigger then our hub meaning more positions to fill. one I like to know all other positions (with automated hubs) and I would like to switch from loading to something better/interesting...

UPS Warns of Temporary Delays After Cyber Monday Overwhelms Network "Online orders on Cyber Monday, Nov. 27, and the days after overwhelmed expectations, UPS spokesman Steve Gaut said Dec. 5, causing a “bubble” to develop at certain package centers. Heavy volumes forced one- or two-day delays...