Definitive Guide to Transportation, The: Principles, Strategies, and Decisions for the Effective Flow of Goods and Services

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The complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing world-class supply chain transportation and delivery processes 

• Covers planning, designing, controlling, and coordinating all facets of supply chain transportation – including the special challenges of global environments
• Introduces crucial concepts including transportation links, efficiency, modes, execution, control, TMS technology, metrics, and more
• For all supply and operations management practitioners and students concerned with transportation and related processes
• Co-authored with the world-renowned Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP)

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This is the most authoritative and complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing world-class supply chain transportation processes. Straight from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), it brings together up-to-the-minute principles, strategies, and decisions for cost-efficiently and effectively moving goods between sellers and buyers. CSCMP and Thomas Goldsby introduce crucial concepts including transportation modes, execution, and control; outsourcing, modal and carrier selection, and 3PLs; TMS technologies; ocean shipping, international air, customs, and regulation; and much more. Step by step, The Definitive Guide to Transportation helps you optimize all facets of transportation, one of the highest-cost, highest-impact areas of supply chain management. Coverage includes:

• Basic transportation management concepts and their essential roles in demand fulfillment
• Key elements, processes, and interactions of transportation operations management
• Design principles and strategies for establishing efficient, effective, and sustainable transportation operations
• The critical role of technology in managing transportation operations and product flows
• Requirements and challenges of planning and moving goods between countries
• Best practices for assessing performance using standard metrics and frameworks

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Table of Contents

SECTION 1  TRANSPORTATION:  THE BASICS     1
Chapter 1  Transportation in Business and the Economy     3
Transportation and Logistics     4
Transportation and the Supply Chain    6
Transportation and the Economy     7
Transportation, Society, and the Environment    10
Summary     12
Endnotes     12
Chapter 2  A Survey of Transportation Modes     15
An Overview of the Modes     15
The Five Modes of Transportation     17
   Road Transportation    17
   Rail Transportation     25
   Water Transportation     31
   Air Transportation     36
   Pipeline Transportation     37
Intermodal Transportation     38
Summary    44
Endnotes     45
Chapter 3  The Economics of Transportation     47
Accounting Costs and Economic Costs     47
Fixed Costs and Variable Costs     48
Carrier Cost Metrics    50
Carrier Pricing and Costs for Shippers     54
Expressions of Transportation Rates     56
Additional Services and Fees     59
Summary     61
Endnotes     62
Chapter 4  The Transportation Services Market     63
Private Transportation     63
   Private Road Fleets    63
   Advantages of Private Road Fleets     65
   Other (Nonroad) Private Fleets     66
Outsourcing Transportation     67
   Contract Carriage (2PLs)     67
   Third-Party Logistics Providers (3PLs) 67
   Lead Logistics Providers/Integrators (4PLs)     70
   Freight Forwarders     71
   Difference Between 3PLs and Freight Forwarders     72
   Brokers     73
Summary    74
Endnotes     74

SECTION 2  TRANSPORTATION FOR MANAGERS     77
Chapter 5  An Overview of Transportation Management     79
Transportation Management Decision Making    79
Network Design     80
   Typology of Transport Networks     81
   Optimization    83
   Heuristics and Simulations    84
Lane Analysis    85
Mode and Carrier Selection    90
Service Negotiations    94
   Shipper—Receiver Negotiations     94
   Shipper—Carrier Negotiations    96
   Contract Versus Spot Rates     96
   Contractual Provisions     97
Service Evaluation     99
Dock- and Movement-Level Decisions     102
Transportation Documentation     103
   Documents Common to Domestic and International Transportation    104
   Documents Exclusive to International Transportation     106
Summary     108
Endnotes     109
Chapter 6  Transportation Technologies     111
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