Essays on Couriers

Summary Report on the Transfer of the Main Warehouse

Problem Definition Customers in the northern and eastern central regions of the US have been complaining of delays in their shipments. With the weakening of the defense sector, there had been a boom in the commercial aviation sector and the suppliers are also having a hay day. The two largest plane makers Boeing and Airbus had orders of 10,000 planes since 2014 which can last them up to 2014. One reason for the boom was attractiveness of the financing rates at that time and coincided with the state of the aging planes of both. The other reason is ...

Strategic analysis of DHL express companyExecutive summary

DHL express is a German based logistic company that provides services at international level such as mail and products delivery. It is one of the world's largest logistic companies. It is a leader in sea and air mail. Founded originally in 1969, in San Francisco, it was meant for delivering the documents to Honolulu. The company expanded its services in the entire world in the late years of 1970s. This was after heavily investing on the offshore and intercontinental deliveries and mostly in the United States (Infrastructure, 2008, p. 86).

The DHL expresses humble start was shipping the papers and ...

1.0 Executive Summary The majority of transporting companies optimize their clients with competitive rates, shorter transport durations, protection of goods, and convenience delivery. Nelson Transport SA shares its objectives many of its competing transport with the aforementioned criteria. Nelson Transport SA specializes in the transport of letters and furniture throughout Switzerland, but currently letter courier is the dominant service. Nelson prefers to stay streamlined with courier and trucking as they find these realms more profitable and better potential for business growth in the transporting industry. Nelson is expanding its vehicular capacity to suit the needs of customer orders, ...

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Business Supply Chain Description The supply chain for many companies can be interrupted by different things such as weather, seasons and high demands. One main example that has affected supply chain is the weather. For instance, last Christmas, deliveries were delayed to customers because of extreme weather conditions and snow storms that affected transportation. Amazon, BestBuy and other business are not to be blamed, but the couriers. Distributors use different shipping couriers such as UPS, USPS, FedEx and others. Ground shipping is commonly used because it is easier and more affordable. During Christmas, consumers shop for gifts ...

Drug Trafficking

The illegal trade of drugs in black markets is perhaps one of the most profitable businesses globally. It involves the cultivation, processing, sale and distribution of drugs that are all subject to prohibition laws in the different countries. Trade in most jurisdictions is mostly allowed only under license through drug prohibition laws. According to reports from the United Nations, the global drug trade generated an estimated total of US $321.6 billion back in 2003 which was one of the highest in history. In the same year, the illegal trade generated a world Gross Domestic Product of US$36 trillion estimating ...

A nation’s environmental connections and geographical location affects so much of its points of development. Relatively, for a nation like Columbia, such condition of developmental chaos has been evident especially in the manner by which the nation tries to survive its battle against drug production and distribution in the country. When a country is surrounded by various countries and when some cities are near each other, will they have similar culture and traditions? Also, will they have some illegal issue when they have various borders? I hypothesized that the cities near each other by the border lane would have similar ...

Introduction

Software engineering management is an important task when designing complex software systems. This is because the details of the systems will give a description of what needs to be done at each stage of the software development process. This paper will focus on the software development a courier service and how the scheduler works (Humphrey, 1989).

Question 1 a)

The hierarchical functions that will be included in the design of the system and scheduler will include: - Enter the new job in the database. Record the new job in the database. This is where the clerk will enter the details of the new ...

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Abstract

In order to give a comprehensive assessment of the ratio of drug trafficking and organized crime, it is necessary to study the history of drug trafficking in the transformation of an important branch of the criminal enterprise - such as how it happened with the bootlegging era of "dry law". As soon as concern over opium derivatives such as morphine and heroin, has led to the adoption of the extremely important on the value of legislation - the Law of Harrison, our historical review will focus on this addictive substance.

Historical Background

In the United ...

Expansion, Problems, Control and Lessons to be Learnt

Empires whose domain span countries and continents can be governed and administered in a highly organized manner if the right blend of approach, planning and implementation is found. The Persian empire and Alexander’s Hellenistic empire are two excellent examples how how massive empires can be governed, even in times when logistics and transportation were limited to using animals on roads and ships on the sea. Further, forms of government were not as developed and these empires were predominantly monarchies. They were ever expanding, and were the two largest empires of their time, with massive populations and armies to govern. Despite ...

A. Current Performance

Orchid Couriers has a good penetration into corporate contracts, commercial tenders and individual courier systems now and in the past one year the company has been successful in achieving 17% of ROI and increasing 1.2% of local market share, there is a new market which has started to get covered and that is the e-commerce market.

B. Strategic Posture

2. Vision:

3. Mission: The mission of the company will be to exceed the customer’s expectations for every transaction of documents across the world, and to create value in the services by ensuring a planned strategy with effective delivery solutions & with the help of ...