Description
Description:
The proper management of transportation processes and issues is critical to fulfilling customer demand, and to the ultimate success of a supply chain. This course focuses on the key principles, strategies, and decisions required for the cost-efficient, effective flow of goods between sellers and buyers.
Outcomes:
†Explain basic transportation management concepts and their essential roles in demand fulfillment, including transportation links, efficiency, and aligning capabilities with customer requirements
†Describe key elements, processes, and interactions of transportation operations management, including transportation modes, execution, and control
†Explain design principles and strategies for establishing efficient, effective, and sustainable transportation operations, including functional control, terms of sale, outsourcing, modal and carrier selection, rate negotiation, contracting, consolidation, 3PLs, sustainability, and overcoming barriers to success
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