Outsourcing Risks for Huffman Trucking Company Cliff Webb CMGT/442 July 11, 2011 Leroy Hurt Abstract The current analyses of the different types of opportunities at Huffman Trucking Company to be outsourced are great. The major issue is the risks that are involved with each of those tasks that may be outsourced to another company. Just to say we are going to send our work outside the company is not a risk that most companies are willing to take without the proper research that will ensure
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Huffman Trucking Paper Huffman Trucking Tipton L. Jones University of Phoenix Huffman Trucking Huffman trucking is a national logistics organization. The company employs some 1,400 people in various locations throughout the United States. Huffman trucking uses logistical hubs located in California, St. Louis, and New Jersey ("Huffman trucking," 2012). The organization also has central maintenance facility located in Ohio. The company has expected earnings in excess of $600,000,000 during
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this paper is to review a hypothetical organization and outline the options the organization may be faced with when debating the idea of expansion. The organization in question is Huffman Trucking, which is a trucking firm based in Ohio that has established a presence by acquiring five Eastern regional carriers. The company is privately held. The analysis of this organization includes expansion options of an Initial Public Offering, acquiring an organization in the same industry, and merging with another
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consumers. We at Huffman Trucking would like to take time to address the direction that the company is heading in. Our company is continuing to grow from great logistics and acquisitions. Five eastern regional carriers were acquired by Huffman trucking and this has enabled the company to become more diverse and better serve its clients. Moving forward is our goal to become a more profitable, adaptive company in an intensively competitive logistical services business. Huffman Trucking has put in place
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Company Huffman Trucking is a privately owned transportation company that has been in business for 60 years. The company has grown into a multi million-dollar company with over 1,400 employees and hundreds of vehicles. Huffman Trucking needs a better way to track the maintenance on their fleet of tractors, trailer and the roll-on/roll-offs. The fleet has to undergo periodic maintenance. Plan Putting the equipment's maintenance history, the parts used and vendor information into one database
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Huffman Trucking Ratio Analysis Memo ACC/291 June 28, 2012 James Haynes Ratio Analysis Memo Starting in 1936, in Cleveland, Ohio, K. Huffman founded Huffman Trucking. “The growth of the company was the direct result of World War II and the increased demand for carrier services between factories in the Midwest to ports on the East Coast.” As of today, Huffman Trucking has transitioned from a single tractor trailer to 925 drivers and 800 tractors, and continues to provide the same delivery service
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Integrative Problems and Virtual Organization Strategy The Huffman Trucking Company was founded by K. Huffman in Cleveland, Ohio in 1936 with one tractor-trailer. By 1945 the company grew to 16 tractors and 36 trailers. Some of the most important clients are the U.S. Government, automotive, electronic, and plastic industries. The company has four locations: Cleveland, OH, Los Angeles, CA, St. Louis, MO, Bayonne, NJ (Apollo Group, Inc. 2011). The company grew through the increase of internal sales, and the
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FIN/370 Integrative Problems and Virtual Organization Strategy In this paper, Team C will discuss Huffman Trucking Company and recommend a strategy that is best for this company and what will benefit the company the most. It will discuss the strategies such as undertaking IPOs, merging with other companies and ways to get other companies, as a way to help their company to branch out. Some of the other things that will be discussed are the benefits and risks, the advantages and disadvantages
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Running head: Huffman Trucking Company Service Request, SR-HT-001 Huffman Trucking Company Service Request, SR-HT-001 University of Phoenix
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Security Plan Huffman trucking company is a national transportation company. The company’s 1,400 employee’s work in its logical hubs located in Los Angeles, California, St. Louis, Missouri, and Bayonne, New Jersey; its central maintenance facility is in Cleveland, Ohio; and as drivers of its 800 road tractors. (University of Phoenix, 2005) Team A has been consulted to create an enterprise security plan that will identify the information security challenges within Huffman trucking company network and
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