Ryder

Miami, FL
NYSE: R (Ryder System, Inc.)
Gregory Swienton, Chairman & CEO
888-887-9337
www.ryder.com

3PL Turnover:

$2.2b
Parent: $6.2b

Service Area:

Tier 1 – Global Supply Chain Manager – Major Markets

3PL Assets:

18,522 employees
200 warehouses
51,872 tractors, 49,642 trailers

Information Systems:

Very Good
TMS – i2 Technologies, Proprietary
WMS – V3 Systems, Manhattan PkMS, Proprietary

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, insurance

Industry Focus/Key Customers:

Aerospace, automotive, construction, consumer goods, industrial manufacturing, retail, technology
Key Customers: Alcatel-Lucent, Carrier Corp., CVS, General Motors, LG, Nortel, Philip Morris, Royal Philips Electronics, Toyota, Xerox

Armstrong & Associates’ Evaluation:

Ryder, one of the most recognizable 3PL brand names, is a big-5 logistics 3PL. Ryder is a lead logistics provider for most GM plants and services including Chrysler/Fiat, Toyota and Honda plus a multitude of Tier 1 suppliers. Ryder runs top-notch inbound supply chain management, sequencing centers, justin-time and dedicated contract carriage operations. John Williford, the new chief executive officer of Ryder, and Tom Jones, executive vice president and chief of the automotive logistics operations, are redesigning Ryder’s SCS emphasis. Their redesign is based on an expansion of Asia-U.S. retail business leveraging off of the purchase of Transpacific Container Terminals and CRSA. Operations in South America have been eliminated so that Ryder’s resources can be applied more strategically. Ryder’s SCS business was about 60% automotive through 2008. Williford and Jones are working hard on the further expansion of retail, consumer goods, and hi-tech business. Jones had been moving Ryder to these new verticals with some successes in 2007 and 2008.