MGT 301 , FINAL ASSISSMENT.

Steps Involved in Designing a Physical Distribution System

Articulating transport targets and deciding the base organization level

needed in thing movement.

Finding out what the customers require in thing transport.

Finding out what contenders do.

Keeping the costs of the system as low as could be permitted, without

surrendering the guara
TRANSPORTATION

The importance of transportation in physical flow transmits from an

arrangement of variables. At the begin of this part, we illuminated in detail the
variables that add to the centrality of the physical allotment work with
everything taken into account. This applies to transportation. Transportation
presents 'time utility' and 'spot utility' to the thing; it chooses the association's

Guideline Tasks in Transportation Management

Assessment of the transportation need

Choosing the "mix" of transport modes

Deciding the coordinating

Development of operational plans

Implementation/review

Control of transportation costs

customer organization; it in like manner has a basic bearing on interchange

segments of physical appointment and advancing, for example, warehousing,
stock control and channel organization. Finally, transportation is moreover a
key cost segment in numerous associations.

Basically, transportation organization incorporates decisions on :

How much to move?

When to move?

Where to move?

 By what mode, or blend of modes to move? : ;

The examinations in settling on these decisions are:

(a) the lead time for stock restoration

(b) arrangements expected in the area in the interceding time

(c) the normal cycles of stock create at the stockroom/dealer core interests.