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Critical Review of Courier Service Management System with Empasis to Its Relevance If Adopted in Nigeria Journal of Multidisciplinary Engineering Science and Technology (JMEST) ISSN: 2458-9403 Vol. 4 Issue 8, August - 2017 Critical Review Of Courier Service Management System With Empasis To Its Relevance If Adopted In Nigeria Okemiri Henry A. Nweso Emmanuel Nwogbaga Francis N. Nwebonyi Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Science Department Computer Science Department Statistics and Informatics Department Ebonyi State University, Ebonyi State University, Federal University Ndufu Alike Ikwo Abakaliki, Abakaliki, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Ebonyi State, Nigeria. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Abstract—Courier Service Delivery Management related to actual historical messenger routes. In the System is useful for small and large scale courier Middle Ages, royal courts maintained their own services for improving their services and messengers who were paid little more than common increasing sales and services by using web based laborers. In cities, there are often bicycle couriers or portal. Users can book courier, know about arrival motorcycle couriers but for consignments requiring of packages, closing and opening timings, delivery over greater distance networks, this may often customer support and feedback system for include lorries, railways and aircraft. Many companies completing work in less time. At present most of who operate under a Just-In-Time or "JIT" inventory the large scale courier services in developed method often utilize on-board couriers. On-board countries use this technology. Existing Courier couriers are individuals who can travel at a moment's Service Companies in developing nations like notice anywhere in the world, usually via commercial Nigeria work on the manual management method airlines. While this type of service is the second which is a time consuming process. Hence, the aim costliest—general aviation charters are far more of this work is to design and implement a National expensive—companies analyze the cost of service to Courier Management System capable of enhancing engage an on-board courier versus the "cost" the customer deliveries by features such as speed, company will realize should the product not arrive by a security, tracking etc. from specific towns or cities, specified time (i.e. an assembly line stopping, untimely to regional and national services. The Courier court filing, lost sales from product or components Service Delivery Management System will be missing a delivery deadline, organ transplants) (Small, divided into two users that are the ‘Administrators’ 1990). and ‘Customers’. This work will be built and Package delivery or parcel delivery is the delivery of implemented using a three tier application design shipping containers, parcels, or high value mail as approach. The design of the graphical user single shipments. The service is provided by most interface will be designed with Hypertext Mark-UP postal systems, express mail, private package delivery Language (HTML); MySql is the database of choice services, and less than truckload shipping carriers. while PHP language will be used to connect the Continued growth of business-to-consumer (b2c) e- user to the information on the database. The commerce has increased demand for low-cost package Methodology will be based on SDLC (Systems shipping services. Demand for inexpensive parcel Development Life Cycle) Waterfall model. The shipping is especially intense for online and catalog phases are Planning, Analysis, Design and retailers. These merchants, many of whom primarily Implementation. The expected output is to be ship low-cost goods, face consumers resistant to interactive web-based, that will solve the problems paying exorbitant shipping costs (often driven up by of the manual system of record management. fuel surcharges, residential delivery fees, etc.) for Keywords—courier management package delivery to their homes. As a result, package shipping consolidators step in to combine low-cost Introduction "last-mile delivery" strengths of the US Postal Service Courier is a special messenger, especially one with the technological and operational capabilities carrying diplomatic correspondence. A courier is a generally associated with private carriers. Large parcel person who makes arrangements for or accompanies carriers, such as United Parcel Service (UPS) and a group of travelers on a journey or tour (William, 2009). FedEx, often include an array of accessorial charges In ancient history runners and homing pigeons and (like fuel and residential delivery surcharges) in riders on horseback were used to deliver timely addition to their standard fees. The US Postal Service messages. Before there were mechanized courier (USPS) offers low-cost options for small package services foot messengers physically ran miles to their delivery to the home, such as Parcel Select and Parcel destinations. To this day there are marathons directly Post. However, many merchants prefer low-cost www.jmest.org JMESTN42351688 7738 Journal of Multidisciplinary Engineering Science and Technology (JMEST) ISSN: 2458-9403 Vol. 4 Issue 8, August - 2017 shipping options without sacrificing visibility of their harsh price competitiveness, the number of bicycle parcels while in transit ("track and trace"). The US couriers in most cities has decreased significantly, but Postal Service does offer a limited "Delivery the market remains strong for those who continue to Confirmation" for even their lowest-cost package work (Foster, 2013) delivery services, but more robust tracking is currently Managing information of a Courier Delivery only available for Express Mail service and some Services faces a number of problems which are international services (Smithsonian Institution highlighted below: Libraries, 2004). Delivery system is any means or process for conveying a product or service to a Customers expecting their deliveries cannot recipient (Dictionary, 2013). track their progress in real time Home Delivery Management is an eService for Maintaining the manual system of records home delivery businesses. Many of the boring, but management is expensive as a lot of stationary and mandatory, administrative tasks that are part of the other equipments are involved business are automatically performed by the management side of the eService. When your Searching through the records for any customers come on-line to modify their orders, it feeds particular delivery information is a time consuming automatically to the management functions. Your process product requirements will reflect the very latest of each Over time, the availability of storage space for order change (Homedeliverymanagement, 2014). A keeping the delivery records for reference purposes courier delivers messages, packages, and mail. becomes a limited Couriers are distinguished from ordinary mail services by features such as speed, security, tracking, A lot of time and effort is spent on the manual signature, specialization and individualization of tracking of and recording of deliveries. express services, and swift delivery times, which are This review will enhance customers’ deliveries by optional for most everyday mail services. As a premium tracking their progress in real time. To make it easier service, couriers are usually more expensive than for the administrators of the system easily add, update, standard mail services, and their use is typically view and manage information on the online courier restricted to packages where one or more of these management system. This study will adequately features are considered important enough to warrant reduce the stress encountered by customers in tracking the cost (Carola, 2012) the progress of the deliveries in real time and to Courier services operate on all scales, from within enhance the flexibility, accountability, efficiency and specific towns or cities, to regional, national and global reliability of the online courier service and delivery services. Large courier companies include DHL, management system. FedEx, EMS International, TNT, UPS, and Aramex. Courier Services are companies that transport and These offer services worldwide, typically via a hub and deliver documents, packages, and larger shipments of spoke model. A courier service is a company that offers products, although traditionally they specialized in the special deliveries of packages, money, documents or rapid delivery of such items as legal documents that information. These services usually boast faster required signatures. They Provide services to delivery times than any alternative method of companies and individuals who need rapid service, transporting documents, and many businesses rely on accountability, and tracking that regular mail does not them. The idea of couriers has been around almost as accommodate. Major courier services that performed long as civilization, with rulers in antiquity using them these functions in the early 2000s included commercial as a means to make new laws and edicts known delivery services, the U.S. Postal Service, and bicycle throughout their lands. In the modern age of messenger services. Courier services began during the international business, this type of service has become late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with small a keystone of enterprise, even as emerging companies in a handful of cities across the United technologies such as the fax machine and Internet States. When few homes had telephones, personal have rendered them less useful in some areas messages had
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