Transportation logistics is essential for the efficient movement of goods, ensuring that products reach their destinations on time and in good condition. It involves various modes of transport, including road, rail, air, and sea, each offering distinct benefits and challenges. Supply chain management requires the commitment of supply chain partners to work closely to coordinate order generation, order taking, and order fulfillment. They thereby create an extended enterprise spreading far beyond the producer's location. Effective supply chain management benefits the industry and all supply chain members.
The activities in supply chain are not limited to Logistics activities but also order processing, payment process, marketing, product development and others. A typical supply chain may involve a variety of stages. These supply chain stages include Customers, Retailers, Wholesalers/Distributors, Manufacturers and Component/Raw material suppliers.
1. Mode of Transportation Analysis
2. Intermodal Strategies
3. Carrier Strategies Evaluation
Single carrier shipping is the practice of a business selecting one carrier for all of its shipments. Prior to COVID-19, single carrier shipping methods were more common, and businesses had exclusive arrangements with large carriers for all of their parcel shipments to customer, partners, and distributors. For example FedEx
Multi-carrier shipping is combines several carriers into one cohesive system. Choosing shipping providers based on price, speed, reach, and dependability is made flexible using this strategy. It's a strategic move that improves customer happiness, service variety, and bargaining leverage rather than only being a logistical one. For example company service of transport which is JNT, DHL and Pos laju
