Distribution Problem

You are the shipping clerk of a small firm that prints, binds, and ships popular books for a mid-level publisher. Your production facilities are located in Oshawa, Ontario (Postal code L1J 2J4). Your customers' warehouses are located in Windsor, Ontario (N9B 2V5), Winnipeg, Manitoba (R2G 0Y4), Halifax, Nova Scotia (B3M 4P3), Regina, Saskatchewan (S4P 0R3), and Burnaby, British Columbia (V3N 3M5). The production facility operates 250 days per year. Your books are usually shipped in one of two different sized packages:

The company ships on average about four of Box A to each of the warehouses on an average day and about eight of Box B daily.

This activity contains 2 questions.

	Your task is to select the best shipper for your company. Go online and compare three shippers, such as Federal Express, United Parcel Service, Purolator Services, and Canada Post's Priority Courier. Consider not only costs but also such issues as delivery speed, pickup schedules, drop-off locations, and tracking ability. Which service did you select? Explain why.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	One of your company objectives is to move toward an e-business model. Which shipper best supports this objective? How?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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