United Parcel Service
The United Parcel Service of America, Inc. ( UPS ) is an international logistics company.
History
The company was founded on 28 August 1907 in Seattle as the American Messenger Company by James E. Casey and renamed in 1919 in United Parcel Service. On August 16, 1976 United Parcel Service made the leap across the Atlantic and opened in Germany, the first office outside the U.S. - in the Rhein Park Center in Neuss - and was the direct competition for the former German Federal Post Office to the transport corporations Kuehne Nagel, Dachser and Schenker & Co., a large shipping the former German Federal Railroad. First managing director of United Parcel Service in Germany was Detthold Aden.
In the U.S., approximately 80,000 so-called Parcel Men of 1976 employed by United Parcel Service delivered daily and 3 million packages. Turnover was 1.6 billion U.S. dollars.
From 1997 to 2008, UPS became the main sponsor of the UPS Porsche Junior Team.
Since 10 November 1999 the Company's shares are publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: UPS ). Annual sales 1999 amounted to about 27.05 billion U.S. dollars.
Since 2003 the company used its new shield logo with the short form of UPS as a trademark, the long form is no longer used as a brand, but the company continues to operate under the name United Parcel Service.
In 2001, UPS failed to court in an attempt to ban the Stuttgart Consumer Protection Club Action educational information to bring the company in connection with Scientology. The club had previously been reported publicly, Scientology use the cooperation with UPS to strengthen its influence on the economy. The court allowed the club also continue to focus on the management techniques at UPS in the vicinity of Scientology methods as well as to spread the message that UPS had specifically donated money to Scientology - friendly U.S. politician.
Business
Group structure
Today, the company is among the largest parcel services in the world. The German branch of the company trades under the name of United Parcel Service Inc. & Co. OHG Germany.
UPS has a global turnover of 49.7 billion U.S. dollars (2007), employed 425 300 employees (about 67,300 outside the United States, including approximately 40,000 in Europe and about 13,800 in Germany [as October 11, 2008, source: company meeting ] ).
Typical of the United Parcel Service, the distinctive vans are in the company color " pullman brown ". In Europe, these are custom based on various European commercial vehicle manufacturers. Since some manufacturers vans with raised seating position and offer passage to the load compartment, UPS buys some cases vehicles "off the shelf ". The vehicle fleet ranges from the silver-gray road trains (feeder ) on small cars (Renault Kangoo ) to the scooter (BMW C1) for express deliveries and internal Verteilfahrten. In some inner cities bicycles are used. In some areas of the world the United Parcel Service also uses boats for packet delivery, including in Venice.
The color brown as a typical attribute of the company came in 1919 for two reasons about. For one, the dark brown of the Pullman railroad cars in the United States was synonymous with quality and luxury, on the other hand could be seen easily on the brown car the dust of the roads are not so clear. Less well known is that the United Parcel Service 's first delivery vehicles painted in completely different colors to demonstrate that they had more than one.
Corporate headquarters of United Parcel Service in Atlanta; The European headquarters is based in Brussels, the German branch, which takes over large parts of the European administrative work and the largest branch outside the United States, is located in Neuss.
Subsidiaries
UPS SCS GmbH & Co. OHG
The UPS SCS has its headquarters in Schwaig at Munich Airport. It also has offices in all key logistics hubs of the world. She is responsible for the logistics in the corporate family. The focus of the service portfolio is mainly the pallet transport. After restructuring the corporate structure in 2009/2010 UPS -SCS operates mainly in the segments of air and ocean freight and contract logistics; Here, among other sources, on the existing infrastructure of UPS. Thus, UPS -SCS adds to the courier, parcel and express services ( CEP ) of the parent company with services such as import and export processing and value added services.
UPS transport
This subsidiary operates in the background and transported by feeder and swap primarily at night packages, which were collected on the day of the small package car. All cars are supplied with the package to be delivered packets of a particular day by feeder in the early morning hours in Germany. In addition, the pick-up area takes over ( pick from large customers ) within the UPS transport is becoming increasingly important in the home UPS.
UPS Automotive
UPS Automotive is like UPS transport a subsidiary that operates in the background. Without them, UPS would also be ready, for it takes over the maintenance of the fleet. In almost every center there is a workshop of the society.
UPS Airlines
The subsidiary UPS Airlines is a cargo airline, which is responsible for the entire air transport of the United Parcel Service. UPS Airlines operates one of the largest air cargo fleets in the world and is equipped with 237 aircraft (as of February 2014), the ninth largest airline in the world.
Mail Boxes Etc.. ( MBE) and May 2009
MBE is a company that was founded autonomously and has been adopted over time by UPS. Meanwhile UPS has sold its stake in the Italian Fineffe Group. However, MBE is also a partner of UPS, but can also work with other courier service providers. MBE acts autonomously and offers various services, such as outsourcing, shipping services, packaging services, graphic and printing services, copy services, mailing services, mailbox services, computer services, etc.
Fleet
UPS delivery truck on P80 Mercedes -Benz Vario - base
UPS Airlines Airbus A300
UPS- out positioner P1000 on Vario - base
UPS- out positioner P45
Emission Free electric test vehicle Modec
Special P800 development of Grumman Olson
In the internal designation of the vehicles from UPS stands for P Parcelvehicle ( package = vehicle) and the subsequent two-digit number for the volume ( three-digit numbers are usually older versions ). There are different variants of vehicles, only model examples are listed below:
- P10 - Ford Escort with box trucks (< 2.8 t zGM )
- P45 - Mercedes- Benz Sprinter with box body and shelves (< 3,5 t )
- P600 - Mercedes- Benz Vario Box body and shelves ( Old Model ) (< mass of 7,5 t )
- P800 - Mercedes -Benz box body and shelves (< mass of 7,5 t )
- 814er - 7,5 t for pallets with liftgate (< mass of 7,5 t )
- P1000 - extended variant of P600 (< mass of 7,5 t )
Technologies
DIAD is an electronic Delivery Directory for detecting the delivery, pick-up and communication with the Centre. The deliverer uses it also for daily settlement and as a time card. Since beginning of July 2012 Model V is in use, the Model IV is sometimes used as a replacement or as a helper board.
GSS is responsible for the rapid and mostly wireless packet capture in centers. Hereby, the packets are physically scanned, mainly with wireless ring scanners, but also with wired scanning stations.
UPS offers since early 2008 as one of the first companies in the paperless billing in the import and export to.
Incidents
- In the Chancellor's Office a suspicious package was found on November 2, 2010, which contained gunpowder. As the sender of the Greek Economy Ministry was given. Delivered it was from the UPS delivery service.
- In July 2011, restricted the British " Department for Transport (DFT ) ," the number of sites in the UK, which shine through UPS air freight and allowed to release for transport, strong one, as the security requirements are not considered to be met and the safety of the public as is considered at risk.