Federal Express

FedEx promises On-time delivery 100% of the time. Because of its global reach, FedEx has to deal with crisis all the time somewhere in the world. For example, in 2004, FedEx activated its contingency plans for 37 tropical storms alone. It cannot wait for disruptions to happen and then react. It has to be proactive. 

Some of the proactive risk management actions practiced by FedEx include the following  

Even the best crisis management plan of FedEx was no match for hurricane Katrina that swept through the gulf coast in 2005. The New Orleans airport was closed for 15 days and FedEx had to return thousands of packages to their senders and stop new shipments to the disaster zones. FedEx shifted its area hub and its employees from New Orleans to Lafayette, Louisiana (135 miles away) in a matter of days. FedEx learned two new things from the Katrina disaster—one is to have temporary housing for displaced employees and second, cell phones cannot be relied on during a disaster since the cell phone networks were down days after Katrina. FedEx has now increased the number of satellite phones that can be deployed. 

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No prequalification is required for vendors who perform simple deliveries or drop ship (i.e., Federal Express, telephone company, bottled water supplier, trash collector, utility companies, supply and material deliveries), and would not involve entrance into an exclusion/contaminated zone. 

The benefits of eliminating bottlenecks are twofold energy efficiency and speedier deliveries. In the air freight area, hub-and-spoke systems are very efficient because large carriers such as Federal Express... 

If using Federal Express. DHL or any special carrier to return the forms, please use the following address ... 

I prepared a white paper and circulated it among members of the Committee, which included Chaunccy Starr, Bertram Wolfe, Edward Arthur, Richard Kennedy, Anthony Favale, Richard Wilson, Pierre Zaleski, and Glenn Seaboig. Their viewpoints and comments were taken into consideration while revising the white paper. I received a letter from Edward Teller delivered by Federal Express indicating that he would not sign it. At... 

Remember that proponents of airline deregulation argued for price benefits of competition, but they did not foresee how it would revolutionize the logistics functions of corporate America through the rise of companies such as Federal Express. Similarly, those who advocated telecommunications competition did not anticipate the new value-added services provided at the switch and whole new categories of customer-owned equipment connected to the network. 

On March 20, 2003, a package containing the West Nile virus exploded in a Federal Express building in Columbus, Ohio, exposing workers to the possible infection and causing offices to be evacuated. 

GM and Federal Express announced a partnership where the HydroGen3 fuel cell vehicle will be used by Federal Express in the first commercial use of a fuel cell vehicle in Japan. FedEx will use the HydroGen3 vehicle during one year for regular delivery services in two downtown districts of Tokyo. GM also launched a Washington-based fleet of hydrogen-powered vehicles. 

In the past several decades, modem biochemistry has elucidated all or most of the components of a number of biochemical systems. In the next five chapters I will discuss a few of them. In Chapter 3 I will look at a fascinating structure called a cilium, which some cells use to swim. In the next chapter I will discuss what happens when you cut your finger— and show that the apparent simplicity of blood clotting is deceptively complicated. After that I will consider how cells transport materials from one subcellular compartment to another, encountering many of the same problems that Federal Express meets in delivering... 

Federal Express Corp. FEDEX Packaging and labeling for hazardous and nonhazardous materials and products which they will carry. 

In late 2003, a Federal Express delivery van will be equipped with a GM H2/O2 fuel cell using liquid H2 as the fuel. This van will be tested for a year in Tokyo, Japan. Also, Toyota has delivered fuelcell-powered SUVs to the Universities of California at Irvine and Davis. These vehicles are powered by H2 stored as a high-pressure gas. 

Cross-docking of merchandise occurs when the delivery of product to the distribution center is put directly into the trucks heading for the stores. For cross-docking to work well, suppliers and retailers must have fuUy integrated information systems. For example. Federal Express manages the complex task of getting all the component parts to Dell at the same time so that a particular DeU Computer order can be manufactured without Dell having to have inventories on hand. 

While substances that are imported through the mail, or by courier services such as Federal Express or United Parcel Service, may not be examined by Customs as a practical matter, certification is also required... 

There is no required procedure for self-reporting under the Enforcement Response PoHcies. However, a written self-report is critical for the company s proof of compHance with the self-reporting requirements. If a self-report is faxed to the EPA, a company should keep a printout of the transmission confirmation from the fax machine to show that the fax was indeed sent. If the self-report is sent by Federal Express or Express Mail, the company should get a dehvery confirmation and keep it in the file together with the self-report. An oral report should be confirmed in writing. These items are proof of the... 

Such approaches to improving supply chain performance are common in the computer industry, where expensive parts required to fix computer systems are stored in a central location and shipped either overnight or on the next flight out to deal with mainframe failures for critical applications. For example. Federal Express (FedEx) has a division called Critical Parts Supply that permits manufacturers to warehouse product in Memphis with immediate automatic shipment by FedEx on customer demand. 

A Yale University management professor once commented on Fred Smith s paper proposing a new business for a reliable overnight delivery service The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a C in this class, the idea must be feasible. The rest is history. The idea became the basis of a new business launched in 1971 and named Federal Express (more commonly known as FedEx), Today it is a 39 billion company with 275,000 employees worldwide. Fred Smith, the founder, earned a salary of 1.45 billion in 2011. 

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