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Ryder System
Miami, FL
NYSE: R
888-887-9337
Gregory Swienton, Chairman & CEO
3PL Turnover: $2.2b Parent:: $5.7b
Service Area: North America; NA Locations: 95 U.S., 35 Canada, 7 Mexico
3PL Assets: 15,625 employees
180 warehouses
52,992 tractors, 48,012 trailers
Information Systems: Very Good
TMS - i2, proprietary
WMS - OPTUM, V3, PkMS
Services: Supply chain consulting, transportation management, warehousing and distribution, dedicated contract carriage, air and ocean freight forwarding, equipment leasing, returns management, freight payment and auditing.
Industry Focus/Key Customers: Automotive, industrial, computers and electronics, food and beverage, building materials, utilities, consumer products and retail
Key Customers: Applied Materials, Carrier, Coca Cola, CVS, DaimlerChrysler, John Deere, General Motors, Hewlett Packard, Lucent Technologies, Nestle, USPS, Whirlpool, Xerox
Armstrong & Associates' Evaluation: Ryder, one of the most recognizable 3PL brand names, is a big-5 automotive logistics 3PL. It has a new, state-of-the-art logistics optimization center near Lansing, Michigan to serve General Motors' new style plants. Ryder is a lead logistics provider for most GM plants, services DaimlerChrysler, Saturn, Toyota and Honda plus a multitude of tier-one suppliers. Ryder runs top notch inbound supply chain management, sequencing centers, just-in-time and dedicated contract carriage. Non-automotive, outbound operations are through the Dallas-Ft. Worth TMC, which continues to expand. Vicki O'Meara, president of SCS, will push this expansion and margin improvement. O'Meara has a new team of core managers for the challenge.