Opportunities
FedEx can expand significantly more into the highest-growth economies of the world by pursuing more acquisitions in specific logistics and transportation management companies. As one of their core strengths is growth through acquisition, the company needs to consider how to more fully support their growth potential in China and India especially. Their growing base of operations in Russia could further be supported by moving into ancillary businesses there. The continual refinement of Boeing aircraft and their supporting technologies shows significant potential as well, in addition to the strategy of consolidating jet aircraft models in their fleets. This is a critical success factor for driving down costs, as Southwest Airlines readily learned from their standardization on the Boeing 737. Another opportunity is to create a more integrated global supply chain and logistics operation, unifying their businesses electronically to an even greater extent than they already have. As it integration is one of their core strengths, FedEx needs to consider how best to leverage this expertise with greater performance across divisions (Alghalith, 2007).
Threats
The most significant threat is the escalating fuel costs the company has to continually contend with to stay profitable. Like Southwest, FedEx needs to consider using fuel hedging to trim costs of fuel and get in control of this major liability to their cost structure. Another threat is the continued consolidation of the logistics and freight forwarding industry, including the development of more automated means of translating supply chain complexity into greater performance gains for their corporate accounts.
Problem Statement
FedEx is at a transition point in their business model, moving from freight forwarding to world-class logistics and supply chain management services through a series of intelligent,...
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