UPS CampusShip Charts New International Course
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After U.S. Success, Web-Based Shipping Solution Expands to 24 Countries and Territories
ATLANTA, Feb. 16, 2004 – UPS CampusShip™, a Web-based
solution that has made shipping easier for thousands of businesses across the
United States and Puerto Rico, now is available in an additional 22 countries
and territories and 16 languages.
With UPS CampusShip, employees in different locations easily process and prepare
shipping labels from their own computers while company decision-makers keep
tabs on the entire process with centralized control and visibility. Corporate
managers can establish company or department shipping guidelines, accurately
track shipping costs by department or location and produce detailed reports
on usage.
More than 7,500 businesses use UPS CampusShip, which was introduced in 2002.
The product's success is growing, with shipping volume and revenue generated
by the tool almost tripling from the fourth quarter of 2002 to the fourth quarter
of 2003.
Businesses that continue to benefit from UPS CampusShip include retail and
service industries such as financial, insurance, real estate and legal. For
example, law firms can reduce internal costs by capturing client matter information
to easily allocate costs each month. Retail companies with dispersed locations
use CampusShip to control, streamline and manage shipments between stores.
“With our expansion of CampusShip around the world, multi-national businesses,
as well as companies with a single country focus, can easily allocate costs
and maintain centralized control. This creates a more streamlined business
process and better management of operating expenses regardless of where the
system's users are located,” said Kurt Kuehn, UPS senior vice president, worldwide
sales and marketing.
One CampusShip customer is BSI Inspectorate, a U.S.-based laboratory services
company that uses CampusShip to allocate costs and to process shipments of
samples and reports between its field locations and laboratory.
"CampusShip gives BSI the ability to control shipping service levels
and to easily create customs documentation. In addition, we can attach internal
reference numbers to the shipment that help us track laboratory samples,” said
Doug Hensen, Lab Manager.
BSI uses CampusShip to process U.S. origin shipments and recently implemented
the product in Brazil and Mexico.
BeckerComPlan, a German-based office supply distributor, recently implemented
CampusShip in nine locations to gain visibility and control for shipments sent
directly from their suppliers to BeckerComPlan customers. Prior to CampusShip
they used paper forms for these shipments. CampusShip has cut shipment processing
time in half. In addition, BeckerComPlan benefits from improved cost allocation,
and the visibility allows BeckercomPlan to provide better customer service.
UPS CampusShip now is available in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China,
France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands,
Philippines, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan,
Thailand, United Kingdom and the United States.
UPS CampusShip is one of many technology-enabled UPS shipping solutions that
allow businesses to improve customer service and increase efficiency while
controlling costs. UPS has built a broad array of shipping solutions based
on an industry-leading, multi-billion dollar technology infrastructure that
enables customers to link product shipments to internal systems and information
to give them visibility into their shipping process.
UPS is the world's largest package delivery company and a global leader in
supply chain services, offering an extensive range of options for synchronizing
the movement of goods, information and funds. Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., UPS serves more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. UPS's stock
trades on the New York Stock Exchange (UPS), and the company can be found
on the Web at UPS.com.
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