Potentials for Efficiency Increase in Modern Freight Forwarding
Dissertation Universität Bremen, 2007
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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
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
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Potentials for Efficiency Increase in Modern Freight Forwarding “
- Integrated operational transportation planning in practice and theory and in a profit centre- Solving the operational planning problem of a profit centre
- Long-term issues for operational planning in a profit centre
- Collaboration in theory and practice
- Modelling collaboration in profit centres
- Verification of collaboration profitability
- Potentials for efficiency increase on a local and on a global stage
Autoren-Porträt von Marta A. Krajewska
Dr. Marta Anna Krajewska promovierte am Lehrstuhl für Logistik der Universität Bremen.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Marta A. Krajewska
- 2008, 2008, 145 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 14,8 x 21 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Deutscher Universitätsverlag
- ISBN-10: 3834908320
- ISBN-13: 9783834908322
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.01.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
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