FedEx Corporation Strategic Management Project Prepared for: DR. Robert Ch. Wood BUSINESS 189 – Strategic Management Prepared by: SAN JOSE CONSULTING GROUP: Billy CRANE Brad LANDTHORN Bob MIRI Jeremy RELPH Chris SANCHEZ Andrea VERNEROVA December 9‚ 2003 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ……………………………………………………………… 3-5 Chapter I: HISTORY
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SUMMARY II TABLE OF CONTENTS III LIST OF FIGURES V LIST OF TABLES V 1 INTRODUCTION 1 PART 1: TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTIC INDUSTRY 2 2 EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS 2 2.1 TECHNOLOGICAL 2 2.2 ECONOMICAL 2 2.3 MARKET 2 2.4 POLITICAL AND LEGAL 2 2.5 ENVIRONMENTAL 3 2.6 SOCIETAL 3 2.7 DEMOGRAPHIC 3 3 INDUSTRY ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS 4 3.1 PORTER’S FIVE FORCES MODEL 4 3.1.1 Threat of new entrants (Low) 4 3.1.2 Threat of substitutes (Low – medium) 5 3.1.3 Bargaining power of buyers (High)
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VanDeven FedEx Corporation Case Summary: Federal Express is a delivery service company‚ founded by Frederick W. Smith in 1973. While at Yale‚ he had a vision of an overnight delivery service designed to transport business packages globally. He found investors willing to contribute $90 million dollars‚ making it the largest company ever funded by a venture capital. Smith turned FedEx into a global shipping power. Key Service Marketing Issues: Customers/ Services: FedEx has a strong
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FedEx Corporation Operating Segments and Companies Basically‚ FedEx is divided into four segments and 11 operating companies. The segments consist of FedEx Express Segment‚ FedEx Ground Segment‚ FedEx Freight Segment‚ and FedEx Freight Segment. The 4 segments and 11 operating companies are as shown chart below: FedEx Services Segment FedEx Freight Segment FedEx Ground Segment FedEx Express Segment FedEx Services FedEx Freight FedEx Ground FedEx Express FedEx Global Supply Chain Services
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Internal Environment Analysis Company Profile * History Founded by Frederick W. Smith‚ FedEx Express was established in 1973 and it has grown rapidly. Smith had the idea of creating a company that would deliver mail all over the United States over night. His idea was to fly mail from one location to another at night because the traffic is better and packages could be sorted‚ distributed and out of its original location faster. Delivering to over 220 countries and territories‚ FedEx today is a big
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Case 1.1 : FedEx 1) List the business processes displayed in the video. The first step is to pick up the package at the customer’s and to scan it. Therefore‚ the employee ) inform FedEx than the package is under FedEx’s responsibility. The second step is the transport of the package by truck for instance to a hub (or sorting center). In the third step‚ the package will process in the sorting center. The package is going to progress in a long and complex net of conveyer belts. This is called
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company. HR practices in FedEx: FedEx is a young company in world-class companies . It among the 500 in less 30 years. In addition to the benefit from good management and opportunities also benefits because of its HR practices. FedEx is the world’s largest express transportation company‚ it provides a fast and reliable courier service for more than 200 countries and regions. It has a global aviation and land transport network‚ Fedex can transport delivery quickly and on time
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advantage – which has given the company a unique ability to access various markets around the globe. The multiple established firms and companies acquired by FedEx in various countries have all been integrated into a special widespread infrastructure‚ consisting of four segments - FedEx Express Segment‚ FedEx Ground Segment‚ FedEx freight Segment‚ FedEx Services Segment. These in turn have 11 operating companies‚ which operate independently. Package rates are calculated according to traveling distance
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Introduction: Federal Express Corporation (FedEx) started its operation in March 1973 building a express delivery company to global logistics and supply chain management company. With logistics as a key part of forming a strong strategy formulation FedEx provided their customers differentiating means thus winning a healthy customer loyalty with enormous. The growth of the express transportation and logistic industry was brought about by three main trends The globalization of businesses.
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ociety’s Use of Quantitative Models Serita A Riggens MSA 640 Quantitative Applications in Decision-Making Central Michigan University Instructor: Dr. Howard E Van Auken August 11‚ 2010 Society’s use of Quantitative Methods The use of quantitative models in real-world decision making is a practice that has become the norm in society. Decision makers have searched continually for ways to reduce or eliminate the uncertainties in the decision making process. For decades
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