It Logistics From the Data Term Paper

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Comparison of Companies

The logistics services that UPS offers its clients, according to its website, include route planning, real-time dispatching services and GPS tracking, and strategic territory planning. These are all logistical services involved in increasing the efficiency of route planning and operation, allowing for overall strategic planning and real-time vehicle-specific adjustments. Vehicle telematics and web-based reporting are also offered as well as a variety of other services to numerous to list here, enabling easier and more immediate access to information for clients. Schneider offers a similarly wide array of services, and places an emphasis on the scalability of its offerings in transportation and supply chain management processes and services. The company appears to primarily operate as a broker, able to find appropriate and cost-effective transportation for a variety of shipment sizes and on a variety of different transportation modes; while this might be more cost effective, this also means that there will be less ultimate control in the actual transportation of goods.


Given these considerations, UPS seems like a better choice for helping companies and clients in managing their supply chains. Though Schneider might be able to broker more cost effective transportation in some instances, it will never actually be in control of the processes and shipments that it puts together for clients. UPS, on the other hand, offers both the planning and the actual shipping involved in managing a supply chain, meaning that the services contracted for will be performed by the same company that actually deals with the client directly......

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