BUSN6110CLASS4-supplychainresearch.pptVIP

Air Rapidly growing segment of transportation industry Lightweight, small items Quick, reliable, expensive (relatively expensive depending on costs of not getting item there) Major airlines and US Postal Service, UPS, FedEx, DHL Package Carriers UPS, US Postal Service, FedEx Ground Significant growth driven by e-businesses and the move to smaller shipments and consumer desire to have it NOW Use several modes of transportation Innovative use of technologies in some cases Online tracking – some better than others Intermodal Combination of several modes of transportation Most common are truck/rail/truck and truck/water/rail/truck Enabled by the use of containers – the development of the 20 and 40 foot containers significantly changed the face of shipping Switching Milk Cans from a Farmer’s Buggy to a Truck on a Rural Road in North Carolina, 1929 Early form of intermodal transport and cross docking Water One of oldest means of transport Low-cost, high-volume, slow (relative) Security - sheer volume - millions of containers annually Bulky, heavy and/or large items Standardized shipping containers improve service The most common form of international shipping Pipelines Primarily for oil refined oil products Slurry lines carry coal or kaolin High initial capital investment Low operating costs Can cross difficult terrain Global Supply Chain Free trade global opportunities Nations form trading groups No tariffs or duties Freely transport goods across borders Security!! * * Because SCOR is does not represent organizations, but rather activities, it is ‘boundaryless’. This is intentional. When you are considering how a supply-chain operates, you don’t want to ‘stop’ describing it when you must look at the activities of some participants. You can, in effect, look all the way from a grain of sand to a finished computer. In looking at various ways to describe this, you can use an anecdote that SCOR looks from “Cow to Cone” for Ice Cream, or if you feel particularly humorous,