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Air transport characteristics |
Dependent on passenger revenue expensive due to speed best suited for high value,low volume goods&urgent goods perishables. |
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What is pricing based on ? |
Air transport pricing adopts the dimensional weight for freight based on weight and cubic dementions . |
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what is belly freight? |
Majority of freight is carried with passengers airplanes. |
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competition depends on ? |
route,timing meals experinece. |
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sea transport characteristics |
relatively inexpensive low value bulk commodities can carry different types of products carries greater volumes truck or rail somewhat reliable and slow. |
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Whats a flag of convenience |
A flag of a country under which a ship is registered in order to avoid financial charges or restrictive regulations in the country of the owner |
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Disadvantages of sea transport |
speed of services lowest weather related disruptions rapid fuel fluctuation Aliening supply with demand |
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characteristics of pipelines |
most reliable slowest accommodation only liquid capable of transporting large product volumes. 24/7 high dependability |
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market structure |
oligopoly high investment cost economies of scale |
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Disadvantages of pipelines |
slow speed limited product limited geographical limited responsiveness |
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QQCT |
from a transport user perspective we think in terms of Quantity,quality,timeliness and cost. |
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Why use multimodal |
because you can combine the advantages of each type of transport. Overall achieving cost efficiency without sacrificing quality. Usually the carrier decides what combination the use. |
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What is land bridge |
movement from one sea port to anther substituting rail for portion of ocean trip. |
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what is mini bridge |
port is the origin or destination ,rail and ocean transport are used for line haul. |
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micro bridge |
same as mini bridge just an inland port |
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Transport management |
refers to buying and controlling of transport service by either a shipper or consignee. |
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Pubic and private transport carries. |
Public- include common carries who serve the general public or contract carries who offer specialized service to customers. Private-are companies whose primary business is other than transport and provide their own transport services. |
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Transport regulations |
influences all modes of transport on a federal ,state and local basis. Covering safety,environment economic regulations |
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Transport managers need to know transport rates which influence the cost of their services |
Commodity rates-one specific rate for every possible combination of product,weight and distance. Ease of handling-refers to challenges to handling that might be presented by a commodity size. |
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How to choose mode of selector |
first determine the appropriate needs,then select carries within the chosen transport. |
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Transport cost analysis |
valuable for shipment consolidation decisions,but this needs to be balanced with other logistics functions. |
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Bill of landing |
functions as a receipt and binding contract. |
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Freight bill |
invoice submitted by the carriers requesting to be paid. |
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for a supply net work the most important thing is |
whether the strategy is focusing on cost consideration or customer service expectations,location to market. |
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five major drivers of supply network |
1,production 2,inventory 3,location 4,transportation 5,information the right combination allows the supply chain to increase through put while simultaneously reducing inventory and operating expenses. |
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why do sensitivity analysis need to be conducted? |
to assess the impact of changes of various variables in the system. |
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Facility considerations |
added when service levels become unacceptable software can help determine the location and number of facility. time it takes to get from facility to major of the target population. |
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factors that influence location |
natural resources population characteristics taxes and incentives labor transport considerations. |
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factors that influences transport |
cost mode inventory required packaging material cost |
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economic transport two basic principles |
quantity-individual shipment should be as larger as involved carriers can legally transport. Tapering principles-large shipments should be transported distances as long as possible. |