Exam 11: Transportation Managing the Flows of the Supply Chain

Some organizations may choose to outsource their transportation needs to third-party logistics (3PL) firms, which may include international freight forwarders, non vessel-owning common carriers, and customs brokers.

Product value is an important factor in modal selection.

Pipeline costs are predominantly fixed.

Which of these is not a freight document?

The rail industry is divided into linehaul freight carriers and shortline carriers, and rail equipment can be organized into loads and transported as manifest, unit, or intermodal trains.

The three general types of for-hire carriers include truckload carriers, intermediate vehicle carriers, and small package carriers.

Intermodal growth has been flat.

What is modal selection? What are the key determinants in choosing a mode?

Software tools related to the movement of goods across the supply chain are lumped together in a general category called transportation management systems (TMS).

Challenges for the trucking industry include:

What are the three types of freight documentation? Discuss how each is used.

The responsibility for transportation management is typically not assigned to any one management discipline in an organization.

Generally speaking, truck, pipeline, and air modes are used for high-value products, while water and rail modes are used for low-value products.

The main strategy behind routing guides is to maintain very tight control of transportation costs.

Transportation plays a key role in supply chain design, strategy development, and total cost management.

Define and discuss Transportation Management Systems (TMS).

"Tendering" refers to the process of receiving a shipment from a carrier.

The distances in today's global supply chains produce:

A carrier is never excused from a claim.

Regardless of mode-truck, train, plane, ship, pipeline, or fiber optic wire-transportation facilitates time and place utility.