Transportation in a Supply Chain - Trade-Offs in transportation Design

4 important questions on Transportation in a Supply Chain - Trade-Offs in transportation Design

Give the two trade-offs which managers should consider when making transport decisions

  1. Transportation and inventory cost trade-off
  2. Transportation cost and customer responsiveness trade-off

Which two decisions belong to the trade-off between transportation and inventory cost?

  1. Choice of transportation mode, planning and operational decision
  2. Inventory aggregation, reduce safety stock when aggregating inventories in one location

For what do managers have to account when selecting a mode of transportation?

unit costs and cycle, safety and in-transit inventory costs that result from each mode.
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In what results temporal aggregation of demand and what is it used for?

Used in the trade-off between transportation costs and customer responsiveness.

Results in a reduction of transportation costs, larger shipments and reduces variation in shipment sizes. But it hurts customer response time.

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