The Great Package Race

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ForewordO Each carrier has its own freight network

through which a package travels and the experience of each package depends on the structure of the network.

The Idea

O Each year teams race packages from The Supply Chain & Logistics Institute at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA (USA) to sites around the world via different international parcel carriers (UPS, Fedex, DHL, USPS). They choose locations to challenge the business processes of the multinational package carriers, then observe the results.

The Great Package Race

O The major carriers, UPS, FedEx, DHL and USPS get put to the test every year with the Great Package Race, a contest to see which carrier can get a package to a very challenging locale the fastest and in the best condition.

The major carriers

The detailsO A group of 60 logistics students, led by logistics

expert, John Bartholdi, sends identical boxes bound for places like Lomé, Togo and Split, Croatia. With no indication that there's a competition underway, each carrier picks up its parcel, and the race begins. The progress of the packages is tracked online and students follow the often byzantine journey (across oceans, rivers and jungles and sometimes by bicycle) from Atlanta, Georgia, to a location that may not even have an official street address.

The Great Package Race, 2013

This is the Holiday Edition of the Great Package Race and like many holidays it will be a stress test: We are sending our packages during the busiest few days of the year for package delivery. Our recipient is... Santa Claus, himself! Destination:Joulupukin Pääposti(Santa Claus' Main Post Office)Itella Posti Oy

Photos of the Great Package Race, 2013

The scorecardCarrie

r Cost Delivery Comments

Destination： Itella Posti Oy

DHL $155.70

Winner! 17 Dec at 1501

6 hops total: Atlanta to Cincinnati to Leipzig to Helsinki to Oumu to Napapiiri Rovaniemi

USPS $95.42 19 Dec at 1102

Atlanta to Memphis to Paris to Vantaa (Finland) to Napapiiri Rovaniemi

UPS $99.79 19 Dec at 1440

Finally underway 16 December after being held up for paperwork mistakenly claimed to be missing. 9 hops: Atlanta to Hapeville, GA to Louisville to Philadelphia to Koeln (Germany) to Malmo Sturup (Sweden) to Vantaa (Finland) to Helsinki to Tampere (Finland) to Napapiiri Rovaniemi. Our package was signed for by “Elf”

FedEx $162.70

23 Dec at 1435

No updates from 1042 19 Dec,until delivery

The Organizational control

OThe race is such an extreme and comprehensive test for the carriers.

OThe evaluation criteria is generated by monitoring all carriers while delivering packages and comparing each carrier’s performance with others.

OThe competition result will be published and displayed on-line.

FeedbackODuring this race, package carriers

receive practical data about ：a. Whether their transportation routes and methods are productive enough (which means high efficiency and low cost) to compete with others.

Feedback-2b. Find their inside problems of respective transport procedures. (Ex: Human error, weak international network …)

OEach participating team can analyze the data obtained from this race and design new transportation strategies, solving problems.

Review

ConclusionO The Great Package Race provides chance

for participants to monitoring, comparing and correcting.

O Therefore, we can conclude that it’s a good example of organization control.

Reference

O http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/wh/package-race/package-race.html

O http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/wh/package-race/2013/2013.html

O http://www.sciencecodex.com/the_great_package_race

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