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success stories
UPS Supply Chain Group
"UPS has a 97-year heritage of being a logistics and transportation leader. Atlanta has the heritage of being the center of commerce for the South and is continuing to grow as a center of commerce for the world. We are proud to make our home here."
Bob Stoffel
Senior Vice President,
UPS Supply Chain Group
Created in 2002 by combining 19 companies that provide global supply chain management services, Atlanta-based UPS Supply Chain Solutions has become a global leader in supply chain management,international trade and transportation services. UPS Supply Chain Solutions, a unit of package giant UPS, offers more than 750 facilities ranging from regional logistics and technology centers to small strategic stocking locations and critical parts depots. The company has refrigerated and bonded distribution centers and is located in 120 countries. UPS Supply Chain Solutions offers transportation and freight services (ground, ocean, air and rail), freight forwarding, international trade management and customs brokerage.
About 120,000 shipments a day for 100 corporate customers leave the Supply Chain Solutions warehouses. And while employees there don’t wear the brown outfits of UPS truck drivers or help sort 900,000 air shipments a day like the package handlers at Worldport [in Louisville], the logistics workers represent a growing and increasingly important part of the UPS network.
"Supply Chain Solutions generates $2 billion a year in revenue — about 8 percent of UPS’ $33.5 billion take. It allows UPS to be a ‘single-source provider’ for a variety of business services,” said Solutions Senior Vice President Bob Stoffel. “We do much more than small package. We want the general public to think of us as a leader in global commerce,” according to The Courier Journal Louisville, Kentucky,“Logistics Unit Makes UPS More than a Shipper.” (2-29-2004)
UPS relocated its world headquarters to Atlanta in 1991 with 1,000 employees. It now boasts more than 355,000 employees worldwide.
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