Potentials for Efficiency Increase in Modern Freight Forwarding

✍ Scribed by Marta Anna Krajewska (auth.)

Publisher: Gabler Verlag
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 153
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The freight forwarding market has become extremely demanding for the professional carriers in a road transport. Apart from decreasing prices and increasing competition, freight forwarders have to cope with the fact that demands fluctuate on a short-term basis and that fast adjustments to the constantly changing customer’s needs are essential. From this perspective, searching for unexploited possibilities to optimize performance has proved to be an effective means to realize cost-saving targets and can make the difference between ‘to be or not to be’ for many freight forwarders.

On the basis of an analysis conducted in a freight forwarding company, Marta Anna Krajewska identifies two levels of improving logistics performance. First, she demonstrates that on the local level the automated operational transportation planning increases the planning quality and influences mid- and long-term planning issues. Secondly, the results show that on the global level the proposed horizontal collaboration

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Integrated operational transportation planning in practice....Pages 13-25
Integrated operational transportation planning in theory....Pages 27-42
Integrated operational transportation planning in a profit centre....Pages 43-53
Solving the integrated operational transportation planning problem....Pages 55-68
Long-term issues for integrated operational transportation planning....Pages 69-85
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Collaboration in practice....Pages 89-100
Collaboration in theory....Pages 101-111
Modeling collaboration of profit centers....Pages 113-124
Verification of collaboration profitability....Pages 125-133
Conclusions....Pages 135-138
Back Matter....Pages 139-145

✦ Subjects

Management/Business for Professionals; Management/Business for Professionals

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