DC Velocity - February 2016

Yale Materials Handling Corp.’s ESC030AD three-wheel-stand lift truck has been recognized by Plant Engineering magazine as a product-of-the-year finalist. … Choptank Transport has honored a group of 17 top performers and sales superstars with its annual President’s Club award, which recognizes employees who have met or exceeded their quarterly goals throughout the year. … LeanLogistics has earned Ferrara Candy Co.’s 2015 Top Supplier in Transportation & Warehousing award. … Toyota Material Handling U.S.A. has earned the Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association’s Most Valuable Supplier (MVS) award for 2016. … The Raymond Corp. received Toyota Industries Corp.’s President’s Award in recognition of its achievements and contribution to Global Quality Improvement Activity for Raymond’s paint improvement project at its headquarters and manufacturing plant in Greene, N.Y. … Fortna Inc. was named to Manhattan Associates’ partner performance club for its contributions to customer engagements in 2015. … For the fifth consecutive year, Associated and its subsidiary Peach State Integrated Technologies have earned the Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association’s Most Valuable Partner (MVP) status. … Hyster Co.’s PSI engines have been recognized by Plant Engineering magazine as a product-of-the-year finalist in the material handling systems category. … Jervis B. Webb Co. recognized the following top seven SmartCart automated guided cart (AGC) resellers based on sales in 2014: Jervis B. Webb Co. Ltd. (United Kingdom); Conveyors & Drives Inc. (Atlanta); Daifuku China (Shanghai, China); DR Storage (Troy, Mich.); Meiji Corp. (Springfield, Mich.); Motion Control Robotics (Fremont, Ohio); and Trilogiq Corp. (Livonia, Mich.). accolades

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faction clear by saying soon after the holidays that it would re-evaluate its
delivery options in the wake of the problems. Though industry experts said
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commitments by e-merchants so close to Christmas, the episode hurt UPS’s
image and put planning for the 2014 peak a top priority.

UPS in 2014 invested heavily in fleet, infrastructure, and manpower, only to discover that the peak volumes did not live up to expectations. Customers praised the quality and reliability of UPS’s service. However, investors and analysts were taken aback by the high costs relative to the disappointing volumes.

USPS’s stellar delivery performance stemmed in large part from its handling of massive amounts of last-mile deliveries for Amazon, a heavy user of the post office’s “Parcel Select” service, where packages are inducted by large-volume users deep into the postal pipeline for short—and normally uneventful—trips, mostly to residences. About 70 percent of Amazon’s holiday shipments moved through Parcel Select, 62 percent directly from Amazon, and 8 percent from UPS’s “Surepost” service, where UPS pushes packages into USPS’s system for last-mile delivery, according to SJ data.