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Chapter 1 Information Systems in Global Business Today
Case 1: UPS Global Operations with the DIAD IV
Tags: UPS global operations; handheld computers; wireless mobile platform; digital firm; integration of business; customer value generation.
Summary
How IT drives the UPS operation worldwide. Using smart people and smart technology, UPS delivers over
14 million packages daily to 200 countries and territories, requiring the talents of 70,000 drivers who are wirelessly connected to UPS main databases located in seventeen major data centers throughout through out the world. L= 3:15.
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Case
United Parcel Service's global operations are driven by its information systems technology. What UPS can do is largely a function of its information technology investments.
Beginning as a local delivery service in 1907, UPS expanded on the West coast initially, reached New York in the 1930s, and went international in the 1970s.Today, UPS delivers over 14 million packages daily to 200 countries and territories, requiring the talents of 70,000 drivers who are wireless connected to UPS main databases located in seventeen major data centers throughout through out the world. A multi-year, multibillion dollar investment in technology drove the growth of UPS over the last twenty five years beginning in
1990. This investment enabled the development of the DIAD, the Delivery Information Acquisition Device.
DIAD is a key element in UPSs business technology platform.
Company spokesmen say that "UPS revolutionized the package delivery business in 1991 when it developed and deployed the first Delivery Information Acquisition Device, known as the DIAD. More than twenty years later, UPS continues its pioneering development efforts with the fourth generation of the DIAD - the
DIAD IV.
To ensure maximum flexibility in field transmission capabilities, DIAD IV includes multiple wireless connectivity options. Each