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Sample Business Studies Paper on logistics and operations of FedEx and UPS

This article asks you to assess the logistics and operations of FedEx and UPS, two firms that have long competed for prominence in the overnight delivery industry. The article is designed to introduce students to corporate value creation and its sources. It requires no numerical computations; instead, it asks you to identify and interpret performance results.

This article asks you to assess the logistics and operations of FedEx and UPS, two firms that have long competed for prominence in the overnight delivery industry. The article is designed to introduce students to corporate value creation and its sources. It requires no numerical computations; instead, it asks you to identify and interpret performance results.

 

Focus on the logistical aspects of these competitors in the package-delivery industry. Use your readings and PPTs from Chapter 1 in the text.  Address  the following questions:

 

    1. What are the strategies by which FedEx and UPS compete and enjoy success?
    2. What are the enabling and inhibiting factors facing the two firms?
    3. How are FedEx and UPS performing in their principal areas of operational and  market successes?
    4. Which company would you choose as the best and on what basis?
    5. Do you think that either firm can attain a sustainable competitive advantage?

 

While you may wish to incorporate data and information from Exhibits 2 through 7,

your submission should pertain to the narratives (pages 1 through 9) and Exhibit 1.

 

             Lastly, this article addresses the logistics strategy and resulting performance of these two firms

as of 2016. Now, update your analysis to 2022, answering questions 1-5 above using Google

             research. Determine which company is doing the best today.

 

 

  1. Answering questions 1-5 does not require outside research – just use the article, Chapter 1 and the PPTs (slides 10, 16, 17, 18). However, when you bring FedEx and UPS up-to-date and answer the 5 questions again using today’s performance, please use research, citations, and full APA references. A References page at the end of your submission will be sufficient.