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How UPS views the future of e-commerce fulfillment – Supply Chain Management Review

One of the world’s largest parcel delivery services is redesigning its fulfillment processes to meet new challenges, inside and outside the warehouse.

Most of us know UPS from the brown trucks that deliver packages to our homes. One of the world’s largest parcel delivery services, UPS generated a total of $74 billion in revenue in 2019 and delivered more than 5.5 billion packages and documents. Perhaps less well-known is UPS’s Supply Chain Services, or SCS, a $13 billion division that handles everything from freight forwarding to e-commerce fulfillment services targeted at the small- to mid-sized (SMB) business community.

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Westlake community comes together to support beloved UPS driver through a tough time – KXAN

Imagine a delivery man so friendly that even the neighborhood dogs stop barking when they see that it’s him.

That’s what the Westlake neighborhood in west Austin has with UPS delivery driver Torrey Word, who has been delivering mail in the area for about three and a half years.

Word, 42, always greets his customers with a smile and a “How are you?” – even though he has had a tough year personally.

“I lost my mom three or four months ago,” Word explained. “But I never let my personal experiences change how I treat other people.

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UPS Expands Pacific Northwest Presence With New Tacoma Regional Hub

  • Location adjacent to Port of Tacoma provides strategic transportation network access to air, major interstate highway corridors, cross-border and commercial cargo shipping lanes
  • More than 800 full- and part-time jobs created at highly-automated facility
  • Businesses gain speed-to-market and enhanced flexibility to navigate global e-commerce
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UPS Makes Delivery Easier By Handling Signatures At UPS Access Point Location Deliveries

  • UPS solution offers convenient delivery and pick-up for items requiring adult signatures, including wine and beer shipments
  • Service ideal for consumers in wine and beer clubs offers tracking and delivery windows to decrease missed deliveries
  • The delivery to a business location provides for a safe and secure option for adult signature packages

Here’s something to cheer about: UPS made it easier to have a taste of Napa Valley or your favorite brews shipped easily and quickly.

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Coyote Logistics, a UPS Company, Launches Dynamic Route Optimization to Enhance Supply Chain Efficiency

New solution aims to reduce uncertainty, provide reliability and streamline operations across the supply chain

Today, Coyote Logistics, a leading global third-party logistics (3PL) provider, expanded its Dynamic Route Optimization program that aims to streamline supply chain operations and reduce uncertainty for carriers by maximizing the efficiency of their fleets and delivering load consistency through optimized weekly routing plans.

Dynamic Route Optimization builds suggested weekly route plans that optimally direct drivers to and from their domicile location by taking numerous parameters into account, including drivers’ hours provided by the carrier, load attributes, average load and unload times, market cost, mile per hour bands by region, home base city, among others and layering them over Coyote’s open and available loads.