How does the Wilson approach contribute to the reduction of carrying costs in business logistics?

Describe emerging role of ICT in logistics management ?

Discuss the use of event-driven architectures in enhancing fleet management and logistics in the transportation industry.

What type of impact can a winter storms have on logistics?

This page is related to Transportation and freight forwarding Project one Rene’s Royal Fabrics, a manufacturer of fashion garments and fabric, uses three primary carriers to move fabrics from its Toronto factory to retailers and fashion designers in Canada and the United States. He wants to evaluate the performance of the three carriers. He collected data for the following metrics over a four-month period. Performance Criteria Allied Transport Bestway Freight Certaint Carriers On-time delivery 99% 98.5% 98% Loads with damage claims 0.8% 1.8% 0.5% Customer satisfaction ratings 4.5 4 3.8 Billing accuracy 99.2% 99.5% 98.1% Loads rejected 1.4% 2.2% 0.8% Rene asked Abimbola, his transportation manager, to develop a scorecard to help compare the carriers on these five metrics. Abimbola came up with the following chart: Performance Criteria Weight Factor(how importantthe criteria isto your company) Performance Evaluation Maximum Score Possible Actual Score(weight…

Logistics Management Information Systems are usually complex. Making changes to a system without reference to its effects on other subsystems or current working practices could result in a worsening rather than improvement. Lets discuss the implications of this statement.