______________________________________________________________________________ Executive Summary: Airborne Express the current underdog in the express mail business has been able to compete with market leaders due to innovation and optimization strategy. The company built on cutting cost and emphasizing reliability now faces pressure from the leaders UPS and FedEx to change their pricing strategy. This change from standard rate pricing to distance-based pricing puts Airborne in a dilemma in which they must choose to match the competition
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Q1) What is the industry attractiveness like in 1997? Has it changed in recent years? Q2) Does Airborne Express have a competitive advantage? Is it sustainable? Q3) What recommendations will you give Airborne Express? ---------------ESSAY START ------------------ Industry Attractiveness in 1997 The industry is defined as the Domestic US Express Mail industry. This includes overnight and second day delivery. In order to assess the attractiveness of the industry‚ a Porters’ Five Forces analysis
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1.How and why has the express mail industry structure evolved in recent years? How have the changes affected small competitors? The US express mail industry is highly consolidated. 85% of the market is served by 3 service providers. There are six second tier players who serve the remaining 15%. FedEx and UPS lead the industry in services and innovation. The following trends have been observed in this Industry. Services: A host of services are provided to suit the needs to different businesses.
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Airborne Express Case Study Evaluation of Business Leading to Sustained Superior Performance September 24‚ 2010 J401 Airborne Express’ Strategy: Value Mix Airborne considers itself as “the flexible‚ solution-oriented express carrier” with an ability to tailor its services to the needs of particularly large business customers - providing low cost‚ next day‚ and second day deliveries. In this way‚ Airborne has asserted itself using a Cost-Leader strategy (please see appendix 1). Continually
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Airborne Express‚ an air express transportation company has succeeded to compete with a few big competitors such as Federal Express and United Parcel Service (UPS) even it does not have funding as much as its competitors. In 1996‚ it held third position in the industry with 9 percent of the market. Even Airborne is smaller size company compared to its main competitors‚ it still can survive with the competitive advantage through its resources and capabilities. With some unique resources and core competences
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1. From the point of view of the industry incumbents‚ is the express mail industry attractive? How has Airborne survived‚ and recently prospered‚ in its industry? Is its success attributable to its capabilities‚ its position‚ or industry attractiveness? The express mail industry can easily be considered an inherently tough industry to operate within given the myriad of factors that come into play‚ such as unions‚ government regulations‚ cost of technological advancement‚ and international borders
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Case 8 Airborne Express: The Underdog 1. What generic strategy is Airborne Express pursuing? Justify. Is this a sound strategy in the context of the air express industry? Why or why not? Entrance barriers (high): it is hard to entry this industry‚ the top three carriers already dominate 86% of the industry. And it need a large scale of capital to entry this industry. For instance‚ with the development of business‚ global express demand increases. Airborne Express international strategy can
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Discussion Questions:1. Using the Value Chain Analysis‚ identify the primary & support activities of AirborneExpress. First I ’m going to tell something about the primary activities of Airborne Express. The primary activities exist of inbound logistics‚ operations‚ outbound logistics‚ marketing and sales‚ and as last after-sales service. Inbound logistics: They use road and air. After the pick up‚ it goes to the major hub in Wilmington. Operations: The operations are the delivery of approximately
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Airborne Express Written Case Analysis Express Mail Industry Structure The environment of the express mail industry has experienced drastic changes over the past decade‚ let alone since its inception in the 1900’s. As a result of changing tastes amongst consumers‚ the industry has adopted practices that have allowed it to perform more efficiently in terms of geographic scaling‚ product assortment of goods being transported‚ meeting customers varying needs‚ as well as enhancing the range of
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1) How and why has the structure of the express mail industry evolved in recent years? How have the changes affected the small competitors? How has the rivalry between FedEx and UPS impacted them and the rest of the industry? - The face of shipment industry changed drastically with the proliferation of many services wherein companies offered next afternoon delivery‚ second day services‚ third day deliveries and pricing these options on the basis of delivery time. - Shipping volumes had increased
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