Strategy and Structure for Implementing Them
There are two key components to UPS’s corporate sustainability strategy. First, we have the materiality assessment process. The goal of the materiality assessment process is to gather information and evaluate the company in terms of its sustainability. Feedback from government agencies and communities, interviews with management personnel and stakeholder group, are common things you can expect to see on this assessment. After data has been gathered and evaluations are made the material issues are plotted on a matrix in terms of importance and impact. This matrix makes it easier for the organization to focus on their strengths and areas in need of improvement. This chart also plays a significant role …show more content…
The sustainability report of UPS is prepared according to Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G4 Core guidelines. It can be find on both sustainability database or its website, and covered 141 pages on both general standard disclosures and specific standard disclosure.
Verified by the NASCAR, “The NASCAR Green Clean Air Tree Planting Program Delivered by UPS will plant trees to absorb carbon emissions equivalent to all of the racing in NASCAR’s three national series for the entire season.” the money grants from UPS will go to recognition of Earth Day and its Network to support the Trees for Communities project, including planting 390,000 trees in five countries and the Boreal Forest in Canada. UPS partnered with lots of environmental organization and individual business to perform their promises, but each operation and partnership go deep from local companies to individual business, so there is no way to verify the numbers of how much tree they planted, but the fact that UPS is devoting to reach its promises. ORION, UPS’s technology is also called “Software That Will Save UPS Millions By Improving Drivers ' Routes” by Forbes magazine. The software not only has more than 250 million address data points to access and runs on an algorithm that equivalent of 1,000 pages of code, but also has an average of 200,000 possible ways to go …show more content…
According to the Motley Fool website, UPS tries to spoil the critical merger of FedEx and TNT. UPS spend lots of resources on lobbying against this merger in Europe, arguing that “regulators shouldn 't allow FedEx to buy TNT given that they had rejected UPS ' own takeover attempt a few years earlier.” and because FedEx is a much smaller player in Europe than UPS, lessening the competitive impact of a FedEx-TNT tie-up. Even though the effort did not succeed and the merger finally went through, UPS was not being fair by blocking other competitor using its unique sources and holding on its largest scale of
There are two key components to UPS’s corporate sustainability strategy. First, we have the materiality assessment process. The goal of the materiality assessment process is to gather information and evaluate the company in terms of its sustainability. Feedback from government agencies and communities, interviews with management personnel and stakeholder group, are common things you can expect to see on this assessment. After data has been gathered and evaluations are made the material issues are plotted on a matrix in terms of importance and impact. This matrix makes it easier for the organization to focus on their strengths and areas in need of improvement. This chart also plays a significant role …show more content…
The sustainability report of UPS is prepared according to Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G4 Core guidelines. It can be find on both sustainability database or its website, and covered 141 pages on both general standard disclosures and specific standard disclosure.
Verified by the NASCAR, “The NASCAR Green Clean Air Tree Planting Program Delivered by UPS will plant trees to absorb carbon emissions equivalent to all of the racing in NASCAR’s three national series for the entire season.” the money grants from UPS will go to recognition of Earth Day and its Network to support the Trees for Communities project, including planting 390,000 trees in five countries and the Boreal Forest in Canada. UPS partnered with lots of environmental organization and individual business to perform their promises, but each operation and partnership go deep from local companies to individual business, so there is no way to verify the numbers of how much tree they planted, but the fact that UPS is devoting to reach its promises. ORION, UPS’s technology is also called “Software That Will Save UPS Millions By Improving Drivers ' Routes” by Forbes magazine. The software not only has more than 250 million address data points to access and runs on an algorithm that equivalent of 1,000 pages of code, but also has an average of 200,000 possible ways to go …show more content…
According to the Motley Fool website, UPS tries to spoil the critical merger of FedEx and TNT. UPS spend lots of resources on lobbying against this merger in Europe, arguing that “regulators shouldn 't allow FedEx to buy TNT given that they had rejected UPS ' own takeover attempt a few years earlier.” and because FedEx is a much smaller player in Europe than UPS, lessening the competitive impact of a FedEx-TNT tie-up. Even though the effort did not succeed and the merger finally went through, UPS was not being fair by blocking other competitor using its unique sources and holding on its largest scale of