Freight

A company is considering four modes of transportationfor its shipments. It plans to ship 32 pallets weighing500 pounds each from Salt Lake City, Utah to Reno,Nevada at a distance of 518 miles. What is the best way tomake these shipments given the following information?

A supplier ships goods from Richmond, VA to three market places in 3 cities (Chicago, IL; Athens, GA; St. Luis, MO). The supplier can ship every day, every other day, or every third day. There is a penalty of $0.30/cwt for each day delayed. Consolidating shipments allows for lower transportation costs from larger loads, but incurs penalty costs due to the delay. Transportation Rate (S/cwt) Shipment City Weight/day LTL 50,000 lb 50000 lb Chicago, IL 18,000 lb (180 cwt) 1.50 1.25 Athens, GA 15,000 lb (150 cwt) 1.35 1.00 St. Luis, MO 12,000 lb (120 cwt) 2.00 1.50 Total 45,000 Ib = 450 cwt Find what is the cost for the following: Shipping Every Day Shipping on the alternate Day (every two days) Shipping every three Day

4.Compare the transportation costs for an online business such as Amazon and a retailer such as Home Depot when selling home-improvement materials.

Sealy Ltd. is a newly established mattress factory that has calibrated its operations towards supplying high quality mattresses to the hotel trade as well as to the general public.  The company intends to maximize it supply chains operations by ensuring that the three macro processes that manage the flow of information, product and funds required to generate, receive and fulfill a customer order is optimized in its operations.  The company’s transportation network is also being designed but is being analyzed in terms of possible trade-offs that may have to be made in order to optimize the operation. Additionally, another far reaching decision that the company has to make is regarding the sourcing of raw material for their operations in particular whether to source in house or to outsource the supply chain function. As a new company in the 21st Century it is expected that information technology will play a pivotal role in the operations of the company   Describe the functioning of the…

Which of the following is a software used by Nestle to Fast Logistics? a. Honeywell b. SAP c. Aquila d. All of the above

Dr. Vicki Belya is traveling from Yangoon to Los Angeles. She needs to change planes in Bangkok and board another airline’s flight in Tokyo. However, the ariline she is flying does not have interline agreements. Provide a basic explanation of what she can expect at every  point of her journey.

Which of the following functions is done by Transport Management System (TMS): Select one: a. Inventory tracking b. Labour management c. Freight management d. Shipping and receiving

Mount Isa Mines is one of the world’s great metal mines. Its main operations are at Mount Isa, in Queensland, Australia, where it mines adjacent deposits of copper and silver-lead-zinc ores. Production levels changes with world demand and prices, but in atypical year 7 million tonnes of ore are mined to give 150,000 tonnes of copper and lead (containing silver) and 200,000 tonnes of zinc. Mount Isa has serious transport problems. It produces huge quantities of ore in a remote area of Australia, while the main demand for finished metals is in the industrialised areas of the world, particularly Europe. The problem is to process the ores and move them to final markets as cheaply as possible. You can see the scope of the problem from an outline of the journey for copper, this starts with underground explosions to break up the ore body. The broken ore is collected by front-end loaders and put onto ore trains that carry it to underground crushers. The crushed ore is then hoisted to the…

Mount Isa Mines is one of the world’s great metal mines. Its main operations are at Mount Isa, in Queensland, Australia, where it mines adjacent deposits of copper and silver-lead-zinc ores. Production levels changes with world demand and prices, but in atypical year 7 million tonnes of ore are mined to give 150,000 tonnes of copper and lead (containing silver) and 200,000 tonnes of zinc. Mount Isa has serious transport problems. It produces huge quantities of ore in a remote area of Australia, while the main demand for finished metals is in the industrialised areas of the world, particularly Europe. The problem is to process the ores and move them to final markets as cheaply as possible. You can see the scope of the problem from an outline of the journey for copper, this starts with underground explosions to break up the ore body. The broken ore is collected by front-end loaders and put onto ore trains that carry it to underground crushers. The crushed ore is then hoisted to the…

What is the impact of the Suez Canal incident on logistics management in Saudi Arabia?

Which of the following is not an external player connected to the Logistics Information System? Lütfen birini seçin: O a. Transporters O b. Purchasing department O c. Sellers O d. Customers O e. Supply chain partners

This page is related to Transportation and freight forwarding Project one Rene’s Royal Fabrics, a manufacturer of fashion garments and fabric, uses three primary carriers to move fabrics from its Toronto factory to retailers and fashion designers in Canada and the United States. He wants to evaluate the performance of the three carriers. He collected data for the following metrics over a four-month period. Performance Criteria Allied Transport Bestway Freight Certaint Carriers On-time delivery 99% 98.5% 98% Loads with damage claims 0.8% 1.8% 0.5% Customer satisfaction ratings 4.5 4 3.8 Billing accuracy 99.2% 99.5% 98.1% Loads rejected 1.4% 2.2% 0.8% Rene asked Abimbola, his transportation manager, to develop a scorecard to help compare the carriers on these five metrics. Abimbola came up with the following chart: Performance Criteria Weight Factor(how importantthe criteria isto your company) Performance Evaluation Maximum Score Possible Actual Score(weight…

Brian and Dom have pooled their resources and have started a major logistics company that transports produce such as potatoes, maize meal and carrots. Their depot is based in Midrand, Gauteng. The pair wants to grow the business and has therefore sought your assistance as a supply chain scholar to assist with the following questions that they have for you. Dom and Brian have just secured a major contract with a client and the client has mentioned that they will use the push-pull-based supply chain system. Discuss this system so that Dom can understand how this system works and provide at least 2 relevant examples.Note: you are required to provide at least three paraphrased theoretical points before practical application is provided.

Talk about the challenges faced by Aramex Transport Company or Al-Hikma Pharmaceutical Company

Select the true items related to performance indicators and targets. Select only the four correct answers     Performance indicators and targets should cover attributes that are important to transport users.     Performance indicators and targets must be expressed in quantitative terms.     Performance target is used to denote any level of performance for a specific, defined performance indicator.     Performance indicators and targets should be biased towards a particular transport mode or towards infrastructure.     Performance indicator is used to monitor performance in terms of progress towards a specific defined objective.     Performance indicators and targets should reflect a broader stakeholder perspective.     Performance target is used to denote the desired level of performance for a specific, defined performance indicator.     Performance indicator is used to show performance when a specific objective cannot be defined.

What is the importance of proper management of transportation, storage in handling of raw materials?

eBook Problem 10-31 A long-distance telephone company uses a fiber-optic network to transmit phone calls and other information between locations. Calls are carried through cable lines and switching nodes. A portion of the company's transmission network is shown here. The numbers above each arc show the capacity in thousands of messages that can be transmitted over that branch of the network. To keep up with the volume of information transmitted between origin and destination points, use the network to determine the maximum number of messages that may be sent from a city located at node 1 to a oty located at node 7. 3 Maximum number of messages -

Use the appropriate strategy to assign joint costs of an LTL route to each of the following shipments. Show your calculations and the assigned cost below. [1] A PUD truck driver works ten hours serving local customers for an LTL carrier. On the route, the driver makes 12 stops at area industries. The driver averaged 25 miles per hour while driving and drove 150 miles. During the trip, the driver handled 80 separate shipments, filling 70% of his truck by weight and 65% by the cube. The route cost a total of $2450. Using the time strategy for PUD cost assignment, determine the costs to be assigned to Shipper A and each shipment if the driver handled 4 shipments (3 delivered, 1 picked up) at the stop, and took 40 minutes to serve the Shipper. Total Assigned Cost for Shipper A Assigned Cost for Each Shipment [2] An LTL linehaul truck route takes 15 hours to complete. During the move, the truck moved an average of 36,500 pounds of freight, which filled 3200 cubic feet of the trailer. The…