{"57468":{"#nid":"57468","#data":{"type":"news","title":"UPS Delivers Efficiency Lesson to Relief Agencies","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGlobal Atlanta\u003C\/em\u003E - March 5, 2010\u003Cbr \/\u003ECARE, the Atlanta-based international relief organization, wanted more than money from United Parcel Service Inc., the world\u0027s largest package delivery company. In 2007, CARE asked UPS, a long-time cash donor also headquartered in Atlanta, to lend its knowledge and experience in logistics to help develop a more efficient delivery system for disaster relief supplies. Last year, UPS launched an assessment of CARE\u0027s distribution network and found some \u0022disturbing\u0022 practices that are common to humanitarian organizations, Dale Herzog, a UPS solutions manager, said at a Georgia Institute of Technology conference Thursday.  \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.globalatlanta.com\/article\/23788\/\u0022\u003ERead more\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2010-03-05 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:22","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-03-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}