Operations management focuses on carefully managing the processes to produce and distribute products and services. Major, overall activities often include product creation, development, production and distribution. (These activities are also associated with Product and Service Management.)...
Transportation Sector
While truck and air transportation industries are affected directly by the
demand for computer and video games by virtue of their role in delivering
packaged game software and complementary hardware to wholesalers and
retailers, available data are inadequate to allow...
GOVERNMENT POLICY
The Government has announced a road policy and a set of guidelines for development of highways, including a series of measures to attract private investment in the sector, both foreign and domestic. Key initiatives in this sector include:
The government has permitted 100...
MODE
RAILWAYS Indian Railways (overseen by Railway Board) manages track building, maintenance, operation.
Operates stations, owns and maintains most rolling stock.
Process of unbundling some functions ongoing. Leases some wagons, executes projects through BOLT/BOT contracts...
TRANSPORTATION
The key concepts in today’s world-economy derive their very existence because of the physical and electronic linkages developed by the technology. There would be neither a world market nor globalization nor liberalization without the existence of reliable and robust means of...
TRANSPORTATION
Transportation plays an important role in economic success by allowing for the safe and efficient distribution of goods and services throughout the supply chain. Transportation links the various integrated logistics activities. Without transportation the integrated logistics...
MULTIMODAL/INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION:
Multimodal transport means using more than one modes of transport during the delivery of a particular consignment. It is a combination of more than one mode of transport.
For e.g.: if a consignment is been transported from one country to another like from...
air- truck
birdy back
container on flat car
elements of logistics
estination terminal
federal express
fishy back
intermodal transportation
land bridge
logistics management
mode of transport
mode of transportation
multimodal
multimodal or intermodal
multimodal transportation
piggy back
premium package services
relative costs
single modal transport
trailer on flat car
train ship
transportation
types of transportation
water transport
FACTORS DETERMINING TRANSPORTATION COST:
There are various factors or things which is affecting or determining the cost of transportation and it’s pricing in the transportation system. They can be categories in two types:
A] Product Related Factors.
B] Market Related Factors.
A] Product...
costs
elements of logistics
lane balance
logistics management
market related factor
product density
product movement
transportationtransportation costs
GOVERNMENT ROLE IN TRANSPORTATION
1] Government plays a very important and crucial role in the transportation business or system.
2] They provide basic infrastructure to the nation like roads, railway tracks, ports, container yards, cranes at ports, public warehouses etc.
3] Government is...
build-operate-transfer
elements of logistics
government
logistics management
role
role of government
role of transportationtransportationtransportation business
transportation system
ECONOMY IN TRANSPORTATION
Economy means minimization of cost per unit. There are two kinds of economies which can be achieved in transportation system:
1] Economy of Scale:
Economy of scale refers to reduction in the unit cost as the volume of shipment increases. For e.g. a transportation...
E-commerce can have a major effect on organization’s logistics. But remember that it is essentially part of the information system. When you look at a company’s website you can see description of its product, send an order and arrange payment- but you still need transport to deliver it...
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Case Study on Federal Express
Introduction
Federal Express is an express transportation company, founded in 1973 by Frederick W. Smith. During his college years, he recognized that the United States was becoming a service-oriented economy...
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