06国际物流系统.ppt

Transportation Management Transportation management is probably the single most costly element of international logistics. The transportation manager is concerned with freight consolidation, carrier rates and charges, carrier selection, certain documentation, tracing and expediting, loss and damage claims, demurrage and detention, movements of hazardous materials, employee moving services, and use of private carriage. Transportation Management Freight consolidation means the assembling of many smaller shipments into a smaller number of large shipments. The reason for this is that the carriers charge less per pound for handling larger shipments since less paperwork and individual handling are involved. A transportation manager would like to see a customer’s daily orders consolidated into a single weekly order, or have orders for seven customers in a foreign country handled as a single shipment to that country, and then broken down inside that country for delivery to each of the seven. Transportation Management Carrier selection is a two-step phase. First the company must decide which mode—water, rail, pipeline, truck, or air—to use for each segment of traffic it handles. The transportation manager must choose which carrier firm or firms should get the company’s business. After the selection is made, the carriers’ performance is monitored to make certain that its quality does not deteriorate. Increasingly, transportation managers are purchasing transportation services from intermodal carriers who creatively combine modes under single ownership for point-to-point transportation solutions. Several of these intermodal carriers offer Web-based real-time access to global shipment information by their customers. APL has its HomePort website (), and Orient Overseas Container Line has its CargoSmart website (). Transportation Management MSAS Global Logistics is a British global logistics services provider that manages the selection of both air and ocean freight carri