Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Transportation As A Process

It is no doubt that transportation cost is a major part of any supply chains. To improve transportation operations, one can view it as just like any other process, like any other manufacturing or logistics process. With this approach, you can review the flow rates, setup/changeover times, utilization, and cost to balance between transportation leadtime, inventory and transportation capacity according to each supply chain needs.

To help one reduce cost, and probably speed up flow, you can use my web apps:
http://routeanalytics.appspot.com/ and http://nearmyroute.appspot.com/