Federal Express shares improved 8% after it reported its second-quarter earnings on December 15, saying that home delivery demand increased with online commerce orders.
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It could also tailor its delivery frequency to the demand for home delivery in a particular region.
WunWun is a new startup based in New York City providing same-day on-demand delivery service.
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In comparison, WunWun is an on-demand delivery service that anyone can use without fear.
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Once the IT infrastructure is virtualized, firms have the foundation of a shared IT infrastructure of pooled computer, network, and storage resources to delivery capacity on demand and meet fluctuations in resource requirements.
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Demand for resilient and reliable delivery is rising far faster than the absolute demand for power.
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Now, when inventories fall below a certain level, the checkout scanners instantly order a new batch based on historical demand and delivery time.
For example, a customer consuming 50 MW who also generates 50 MW behind the retail delivery point places no demand on the grid .
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Government suppliers, owed millions of dollars in arrears, have begun to demand cash on delivery, which the government cannot produce.
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High demand and aging delivery grids have forced some utility companies to restrict the amount of power delivered to a data center.
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Secondly, the absence of video currently from the service ignores one of the largest catalysts for Akamai, which is driving demand for content delivery vendors like Akamai.
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All four firms are adapting to diminished traffic in letters and important documents because of e-mail, and the growing demand for parcel delivery to end-consumers generated by e-commerce sites such as Amazon.
The home entertainment market will be revolutionized by DSL's delivery of movies-on-demand, long-distance telephony, interactive gaming and other enhanced services.
The big job for turbo designers is combatting turbo lag the delay between the demand for power and the delivery.
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Now the big chains are getting kicked around, thanks to video-on-demand technology, online-delivery services like Netflix and "sell-through" pricing straight to consumers.
And to me that means seasonal bumps in demand for the shipping and delivery services from United Parcel Service (UPS) and FedEx (FDX).
This puts Ann in a good position to meet client demand in terms of variety and delivery, which will lead to better sales through the e-commerce channel.
Manufacturers, the authors suggest, could deal with the ebbs and flows of demand by offering lower prices for later delivery, in the same way that airlines offer discounts on early bookings.
Pitney Bowes, which makes products related to post, such as sorters and franking machines, could see demand for its services rise if the delivery week is cut short, says its chief financial officer, Michael Monahan.
Package-delivery companies and logistics firms have been pressured by softened demand in Asian exports.
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Bolick also cited the example of specialty-gas supplier Air Products, which has been able to save large amounts of energy by using analytics tools to monitor and predict consumer demand and thereby optimize timing and efficiency of delivery routes.
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For the delivery of books, the question is more one of uncertain demand.
These companies are exploring new business models, the benefits of printing books on demand and the various forms of e-book delivery.
Global health commodities obey the same laws of economics as any other commodities: shaping markets to bring supply and demand into alignment will yield significant improvements in the delivery and availability of key products such as oxytocin and magnesium sulfate.
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Innovative solutions like demand-driven forecasting, in which real-time customer demand information is translated into super-lean production and delivery, have allowed companies to dramatically reduce inventory levels and the costs associated with them.
To keep videos streaming on demand without annoying delays, most video sites use expensive content delivery networks like Akamai and Limelight, and sites like YouTube--as well as clones launched by practically every television network--have struggled to find an advertising model that produces enough revenue to offset those ballooning bandwidth costs.
We start from a market in oil for current delivery that is in balance, where the price is such that supply and demand are roughly equal.
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And AirAsia founder Tony Fernandes has noted that the orders have delivery dates that stretch for more than a decade and can be delayed if demand slows unexpectedly.
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