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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: June 1, 2007
Inbound Logistics - June 2007
While most people watch episodes of The Amazing Race on TV, Georgia Tech students devised their own race - they tasked FedEx, UPS, and DHL with delivering packages to Tikrit, Iraq; Harare, Zimbabwe; Yangon, Myanmar; Floranopolis, Brazil; and Apia, Samoa, as part of the annual Great Package Race. Sixty students from the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute at Georgia Tech, with their professor, Dr. John Bartholdi, sent identical boxes containing Georgia Tech material to these out-of-the-way locations to learn which major express carrier could deliver fastest and cheapest. The carriers had no idea a competition was in progress. To read the full article, visit http://www.inboundlogistics.com/articles/trends/trends0607.shtml
