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

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…

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Professor Gaffney needs to ship 800 pounds of laboratory equipment to a colleague across country. Due to limited departmental​ funds, Dr. Gaffney would like to minimize total shipment costs.​ Currently, the freight classification is 77.5. ​However, a local equipment manufacturing company is willing to specially package the equipment in order to drop the freight classification to 55. Use the table below to calculate the​ break-even cost of using this service. Class <500 (lbs) 500 (lbs) 1,000 (lbs) 2,000 (lbs) 5,000 (lbs) 10,000 (lbs) ≥20,000 (lbs) 50 34.31 28.56 24.61 23.24 17.24 15.48 10.68 55 36.97 30.55 26.57 24.16 18.46 17.39 11.66 60 39.74 32.33 27.57 26.51 20.79 19.37 12.03 65 41.06 34.18 29.27 28.15 21.77 20.29 13.46 70 44.33 36.93 31.29 29.84 22.87 21.13 14.46 77.5 48.53 39.82 34.83 32.75 24.46 23.58 15.75 85 51.89 42.44 36.17 34.08 26.97 26.14   17.32 92.5 55.94 46.12 39.75   37.35   28.76 28.08 18.77 100 60.07 49.31 42.43 40.15 30.86 30.54   20.39 In…

42) The General Agreement on trade in Services (GATS) defines trade in service as the supply of a service through which of the following? a) Consumption abroad b) Cross border supply C) Both A and B d) Neither A and B