Transportation is a vital activity in moving both freight and
passengers around the world. Transportation is an integral activity in a firm’s
implementation of logistics and supply chain concepts. The management of transportation
is concerned with the overall purchase and control of this movement service
used by a firm in achieving its logistics objectives. Logistic management
defined that logistics is part of the supply chain process that plans,
implements, and controls the efficient, effective forward and reverse flow and
storage of goods, service and related information between the point of origin
and the point of consumption in order to meet customer requirements. There are
five modes of transportation is supply chain activities by air, water, rail,
road, and pipeline. Rail transportation is from the one of the type of
transportation. There are many advantage of using rail transportation.
Next is cheap. Compare from other modes of transportation for example air transportation. Rail transportation is the cheaper. As a matter of fact, rail transportation is even cheaper then road transportation because of the reason that goods in bulk quantities are carried from a desired destination to other. In case of road transport for instance, less goods as compared to road transport can be carried.
More advantage of rail transportation is increase employment. Rail transportation helps people to carry cheap products from a place to another and sell them at high prices. Moreover, for another example, using truck or road transportation to carry the goods from point A to point B, the landed cost is higher than using train or rail transportation. So, those people can use this advantage to gain more profit. As a result of this, a number of people who are unemployed can find a source of their daily income.
Lastly is bulk quantity. Because of the rail transportation is the most cheaper as compare to to air transportation and road transportation, the goods can be carried in a bulk quantity. At the same time, carried the goods in a bulk quantity can safe lot of time or can reduce time of transportation.
Logistics is all about managing the shipping and distribution of goods to customers.
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Transportation Tracking Software track vehicles & loads with the help of TMS by tracing for planning, theft prevention, mileage administration and to inform your customer about the consignment. Transportation management software is a technology platform which helps an enterprise plan, manage, execute, track and improve all their logistics operations.
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