Merry Christmas to all. I, like many of you had read in books about the globalized world, the highly efficient supply chains, vertical and horizontal integration and similar things. Recently, I experienced it myself. I find it amazing and hence this post. Most of my friends working for MNCs would already know this but to me this is still very exciting. I use DHL to courier my documents for my applications to the US. They are extremely efficient and my stuff reaches in exactly 3 days. I was not amazed by this at first. But then I looked at the details that they send us.
It works as follows, so the day I give my courier to the agent it is sorted at New Delhi and put onto a plane to London the very same night. They again sort it, send to another location in the UK from where it is again put onto a different plane to the US. After the final sorting, they send to the state and then to the city. This is a reflection of a highly efficient system that works round the clock. So my guess is that all the couriers to the US from the east are collected at the UK and then put on the right plane depending on the destination region. Don't forget that the senders and the receivers can be infinitely many. These guys therefore are solving a very complex matching problem in real time. The right time of departure both from New Delhi and London so that there is no delay en-route. The right choice of the departing aircraft that will take it via the most efficient route. Doing all this and at the same time minimizing cost and the delivery time. Globalization and competition has taken us to our best.
I don't want to take either a pro or anti-globalization stand but right now but I am just amazed at the situation and the world we live in. Micro institutions work round the clock, where every person just contributes his bit and the macro picture that emerges is simply astonishing.
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