Transportation modes & Types of warehousing
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What are the six most common ways of transportation?
- Road
- Air
- Water
- Rail
- Pipeline
- Multimodal / Intermodal solution
Give some examples of constraints when planning transportation:
- Customer requirements and time available;
- Maximum route time;
- Vehicle capacity;
- Start & Stop points en route;
- Infrastructure constraints & traffic conditions;
- Balancing of the route for the driver, to avoid overtaxing
- modal choice, carrier selection, consolidations, vehicle routing and scheduling, selection of the right vehicle type considering the dimensions and characteristics of the shipment, selection of the right vehicle and driver, vehicle loading.
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What is the implication for warehousing?
What are implications for transportation?
- Using slower and cheaper transportation modes will cause inventory levels within the supply chain to rise.
- Using faster and more expensive transportation modes will enable firms to lower inventory levels.
What are the three outsourcing options? Give an explanation for each one.
- Common carriers; transportation company, working together on a case by case basis, mostly short-term corporation
- Contract carriers; transportation company, working together on a contract basis
- 3PL (Third Party Logistics); not only limited on transportations, from warehousing, all the way through to delivery
What are the four types of warehousing?
- Private warehousing: in-house
- Public warehousing; commercial inventory space owned by a third-party business and rented to other companies
- Contract warehousing; arrangement in which a partner warehouse agrees to receive, store and ship goods for a client.
- Bonded warehousing; managed by the state or by private enterprise
What is cross-docking warehousing?
What is break bulk warehousing?
What are hub-and-spoke systems?
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