UPS Supply Chain Solutions

Company Overview
UPS Supply Chain Solutions offers a single-source solution to companies' total logistics and distribution needs. That includes help in designing, re-engineering and streamlining the supply chain; access to a global distribution network of air, ocean, road and rail transportation resources; redundant systems, both electronic and human; space as needed in UPS facilities; and the critical components to proactively manage overseas suppliers and logistics.Companies can turn to UPS Supply Chain Solutions for help in determining how best to design and re-engineer their supply chains for maximum benefit. UPS consultants can help: Streamline the distribution network to gain efficiencies, improve customer service and better utilize assets and capital; provide insight into logistics design, re-engineering and supply chain management; and implement leading-edge information systems and benchmarking processes to measure productivity.

Quick Facts
UPS Supply Chain Solutions
12380 Morris Road
Alpharetta, GA 30005

Featured Solutions

• Six Sigma and RFID: Enabling process improvement by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  This white paper by UPS Supply Chain Solutions focuses on how Six Sigma, where measurement and improvement of metrics are integral to the design, execution and overall success of a project, can combine with radio frequency identification (RFID) to enhance process improvement.
  
  
• Strategic sourcing: Building a foundation for success by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  This white paper by UPS Supply Chain Solutions describes the difference between sourcing and strategic sourcing. Strategic Sourcing is the process of evaluating, selecting and aligning with suppliers or consortia of suppliers to achieve operational improvements in support of an organization’s strategic objectives.
  
  
• Getting started: The basics of organizing a strategic sourcing program by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  This white paper by UPS Supply Chain Solutions describes opportunities in a strategic sourcing program and presents a recommended, phased approach for developing and implementing such a program.
  
  
• Supply chain value: Three principles to obtain more from your supply chain ... by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  This white paper by UPS Supply Chain Solutions describes three principles that can help companies derive greater value from their supply chains including tying an improvement initiative to an appropriate business objective, developing robust models within the supply chain and building momentum.
  
  
• Up and running: Helping supply chain technology do its job by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  This white paper by UPS Supply Chain Solutions describes how supply chain efficiences can help a company gain competitive advantage, and how to avoid common pitfalls.
  
  
• Supply chain strategy: The importance of aligning your strategies by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  This white paper by UPS Supply Chain Solutions describes the benefits of aligning supply chain strategies, including operationalizing and supporting the overall business strategy and establishing how to work with partners including suppliers, distributors and customers.
  
  
• Outsourcing and the biotech supply chain by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  This white paper by UPS Supply Chain Solutions describes key trends in outsourcing in the biotech industry and their ramifications on the supply chain that have the potential to enhance service and drive down bottom-line costs.
  
  
• High-tech manufacturing: What does outsourcing mean to your supply chain? by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  This white paper by UPS Supply Chain Solutions explains models critical to building a successful supply chain model.
  
  
• Building supply chain capabilities: Trends impacting the supply chain by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  This white paper by UPS Supply Chain Solutions discusses three areas of business—sales and marketing, channel management and new product development and rollout—and supply chain issues that pharmaceutical companies should focus on in order to position themselves for future success.
  
  
• Indirect procurement outsourcing: Why, how and when by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  This white paper by UPS Supply Chain Solutions describes in detail indirect procurement outsourcing, the complete or partial transfer of the business processes, infrastructure and resources associated with purchasing materials.
  
  
• Building supply chain capabilities: Winning supply chain capabilities by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  This white paper by UPS Supply Chain Solutions discusses supply chain capabilities that pharmaceuticals should build to maintain competitive advantage, including production, fulfillment, customer management, forecasting and planning and procurement.
  
  
• Inventory in motion: A direct alternative to global fulfillment by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  This white paper by UPS Supply Chain Solutions describes the role of inventory in the supply chain and the direct-to-store approach. It also describes UPS Trade Direct, a direct-to-store approach offered by UPS.
  
  
• Delivering real value through cost reductions by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  This white paper by UPS Supply Chain Solutions describes cost reduction actions that deliver reliable short-term results and sustainable long-term efficiencies including inventory reduction, product rationalization, customer segmentation, supplier base management and network optimization.
  
  
• A just-in-time supply chain: Achieving just-in-time operational objectives by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  This white paper by UPS Supply Chain Solutions describes how just-in-time (JIT) inventory management benefits the supply chain.
  
  
• Maximizing your adaptability: Surviving and winning the high-tech supply ... by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  This white paper by UPS Supply Chain Solutions describes how companies can gain a supply chain advantage by developing adaptability and accommodating unexpected changes in demand and supply chain flow.
  
  
• Medical manufacturer opts to leverage value of distributors by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  In this case study, UPS Supply Chain Solutions helps a leading manufacturer of medical devices to analyze the company’s option of moving to a direct distribution model for its product in terms of cost and long-term business impact.
  
  
• Drug company plans ahead to keep supply chain healthy pharmaceuticals by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  In this case study, UPS Supply Chain Solutions helps a mid-sized U.S. pharmaceutical company to assess the long-term health of its supply chain as the company prepares to meet continued growth forecasts.
  
  
• Framework for developing RFID and auto-ID strategy by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  This white paper by UPS Supply Chain Solutions presents some guiding principles to serve as a framework for companies considering an automatic identification (auto-ID) strategy. UPS suggests that companies develop a holistic auto-ID strategy, and not simply a radio frequency identification (RFID) strategy.
  
  
• BD finds flexible order to cash solution fits the bill by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  In this case study, UPS Supply Chain Solutions helps BD, a global medical technology firm, implement a flexible order-to-cash solution capable of adapting to varied customer requirements.
  
  
• Data analysis yields Rx for process improvements by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  In this case study, UPS Supply Chain Solutions helps a leading group purchasing organization in conducting an in-depth data analysis to identify data inconsistencies and provide detail about member purchases, tapping hidden revenue and strengthening the organization’s position for future contract negotiations.
  
  
• RFID in health care by UPS Supply Chain Solutions
  This white paper by UPS Supply Chain Solutions discusses the slow adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) in health care industries and compelling developments in the technology's application to issues such as drug counterfeiting, clinical trials and inventory management.