Global express and courier industry overview Introduction The primary business of the express industry is the delivery of time-sensitive shipments‚ typically with a transit time of two to three days. These are delivered mainly by air and ground. The industry has been witnessing significant growth as a result of the constant rise in demand for express and courier services over the last decade across user industries‚ including manufacturing‚ pharmaceutical‚ financial services and high-tech sectors
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INTRODUCTION Courier services began during the late 19th and early 20th centuries‚ with small companies running them in a handful of cities across the US. Few homes had telephones and personal messages had to be carried by hand. Some early companies provided delivery of luggage and other packages. With the rise of large retail and department stores in the early twentieth century‚ package delivery services became more popular. The services grew over the next several decades. Courier companies traditionally
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Assignment 1: Courier service Whether it is a business consignment or personal items that need to be sent quickly‚ the first thing that comes to our mind is Courier Service. Courier service plays a big role in daily routine in current lifestyle. Information flow from the Order to Delivery An order forms the basis for the information flow in a logistics system. It has three principal functions - it creates a flow of information that precedes the goods‚ accompanies them and
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12/17/2010 MSc OR/BAC | Courier Services | Managing Business Operations | SERVICE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT - group 5 | Contents Service Definition 2 Intangibility 2 Heterogeneity 2 Inseparability 2 Perishability 2 Service Classification 3 The Volume Measure (Silvestro) 3 Other Service Classification Models 4 Service Design 5 What is the philosophy behind the service design? 5 What to deliver to courier service customers? 6 How to deliver? 7 The blueprint diagram 7 Customer actions
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EXPLAIN THE ADVANTAGES OF COURIER SERVICES OVER PUBLIC POSTAL SERVICES “A courier service is an organization which offers special deliveries of packages‚ money‚ documents or information. Courier services usually boast faster delivery times than any alternative method of transporting documents‚ and many services in the modern world rely on them. The idea of couriers and a courier service has been around almost as long as civilization‚ with rulers in antiquity using couriers as a means to make new
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bicycle based courier service in Portland‚ Oregon‚ catering to law firms. The Oracle can transport documents as well as small parcels to clients‚ other law firms‚ as well as transport and file documents with the clerk of courts. Law firms will be the primary group of customers and the only one targeted‚ non law firm customers will be served as well‚ but will not be targeted. The Oracle will offer reliability and industry insight to law firms‚ enabling it to provide superior service relative to the
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particularly concerned about Federal Express in its early years‚ because it didn’t directly compete with UPS’s ground service. The problem was that Federal Express identified a market that was much larger than anyone anticipated‚ including UPS. Brewster says: “By the early 1980s‚ customers were beginning to ask UPS drivers and sales professionals why UPS wasn’t offering next day delivery. UPS‚ a company that had built its reputation and name on the high standards of its service‚ had been outplayed at its own
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Federal Express – delivering the goods Kevan Scholes This case study looks at how new business models can create vast improvements in competitiveness. However‚ the models must be suited to the business environment at the time and will have a ‘shelf-life’ as the business environment changes. The case study looks at one on the world’s most successful adopters of a new business model that transformed the airfreight and package delivery sectors worldwide. But the advent of the internet in the mid-1990s
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1. Evaluate the value proposition offered by the Courier Pak The product in question is a freight product that covers shipment of documents or other items up to a weight of 2 pounds and offered overnight delivery of the documents. Another value proposition of this product is the added safety feature of it being shipped in waterproof or tear-proof envelopes ensuring the documents are shipped without the possibility of damage. The targeted segment for this product is the Rush segment customers
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ABOUT THE PROFESSIONAL COURIER SERVICE Submitted by: PANDIARAJAN.P (Reg.No: 3511010488) A project report Submitted to the SRM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY SRM UNIVERSITY KATTANKULATHUR In partial fulfillment of the requirements For the award of the degree Of MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE Certified that this project report titled “A Study on the Customer perception about the professional courier services ‚Chennai” is the bonafide
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