The United Parcel Service operation is affected by governmental action and political challenges and therefore, determine the company’s financial standing through opportunities and threats. A direct implication is through the transportation operating costs provided to customers. The courier company allocates shipping expenses among big competitors such as Federal Express (FedEx) and DHL. The government creates the rules and dictates to a certain extent the standards of each competitors. Periodically, the government will modify these rules and standards convincing companies to change the way they work. If UPS is unable to comply with these changes and find a breakthrough to still meet customer demands and provide satisfactory service, then the company operation will be at an undeniably risk as it push the company to find possibly challenging ways to take care of its annual
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UPS has a strong financial performance and reduce delivery costs would be a competitive advantage for the stakeholders and competitors. Customers shopping tendency or patterns have changed in the past few years, therefore, UPS has to change its marketing strategy. Recently, the courier company has considered growing e-commerce services. Online shopping has increased drastically in recent years, since the economy is developing, which means more profitability for the delivery company (Casey, 2015). UPS has identified new online shopping opportunities in its latest financial reports. UPS was bombarded with high volume of online orders during the Christmas, therefore, the company has to invest in more advanced technologies to ensure guaranteed and time-definite deliveries regardless of volumes, especially for the holiday seasons, the highest peak for
UPS has a strong financial performance and reduce delivery costs would be a competitive advantage for the stakeholders and competitors. Customers shopping tendency or patterns have changed in the past few years, therefore, UPS has to change its marketing strategy. Recently, the courier company has considered growing e-commerce services. Online shopping has increased drastically in recent years, since the economy is developing, which means more profitability for the delivery company (Casey, 2015). UPS has identified new online shopping opportunities in its latest financial reports. UPS was bombarded with high volume of online orders during the Christmas, therefore, the company has to invest in more advanced technologies to ensure guaranteed and time-definite deliveries regardless of volumes, especially for the holiday seasons, the highest peak for