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The Great Package Race

Join the annual race where major carriers compete to deliver packages to challenging locales around the world, testing efficiency and performance.

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The Great Package Race

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  1. The Great Package Race ~第5-12組~ 0213204 趙容 0010793 陳新秀

  2. Foreword • 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.

  3. The Idea • 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.

  4. The Great Package Race • 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.

  5. The major carriers

  6. The details • 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.

  7. 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

  8. Photos of the Great Package Race, 2013

  9. The scorecard

  10. The Organizational control • The race is such an extreme and comprehensive test for the carriers. • The evaluation criteria is generated by monitoring all carriers while delivering packages and comparing each carrier’s performance with others. • The competition result will be published and displayed on-line.

  11. Feedback • During 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.

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

  13. Review • Each participating team can analyze the data obtained from this race and design new transportation strategies, solving problems.

  14. Conclusion • The Great Package Race provides chance for participants to monitoring, comparing and correcting. • Therefore, we can conclude that it’s a good example of organization control.

  15. Reference • http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/wh/package-race/package-race.html • http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/wh/package-race/2013/2013.html • http://www.sciencecodex.com/the_great_package_race

  16. ~Thanks for watching~

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