When you are getting involved in
the supply chain industry which required you to send the commodities to the
other place or provide service at the other place, you are frequently need the
terminal to drop by in the middle of your journey. What is terminal? For the
people involved in this industry, terminal is being very familiar to them but
not for the public. Actually terminal can be considered as the place to drop by
to complete the service or the items. There are the terminal for pickup and
delivery, release terminal, break-bulk terminal and others. Terminal plays an
important role in our industry, so the location of the terminal must be
suitable. What are the factors in choosing the right terminal’s location?
The first one is the terminal
must be situated in the center of the cities or the place that become the point
of view of people. It is because it will be near to the market, supplier and
also the customer. This is quite important as it will make the transaction
becomes easier. The suitable locations will give the benefits for both of the
parties which is the seller and the buyer. It means that the supplier can
deliver the goods on time as the terminal located near to them and it will
increasing the efficiency of the product flow and the customer can receive the
goods easily which at the same time increasing the customer satisfaction. For
example, we are locating the main terminal which focused on the pickup and
delivery activity in the center of Johor Bahru. Both customer and supplier from
district of Johor and Singapore can easily pick and deliver the shipment.
The second factor in choosing the
location for the terminal is locating the terminal at the place which having
complete infrastructure, complete infrastructure here means they are having the
road, highway, customs place, warehouse, petrol station and also distribution
center. It is also the advantage if we are locating the terminal near to the
ports or airports. When there is the infrastructure near to the terminal, it
will become more efficient to manage the transaction activity. Just imaging you
are conducting a transaction at the terminal where there are no infrastructures
at all such as bank, the customs place or even no petrol station. It’s gonna be
hard to manage all the documents causing more additional time requirements to
handle the shipment and at the same time, it will automatically increasing the
cost.
The last factors in choosing the
best location for the terminal is the accessibility. Accessibility means that
you can connect to almost any geographical area. Activity of receiving and
delivery will be hard if the terminal is located at the urban or rural area as
not all the people can access to the place. For example, you are locating the
terminal at one of the islands in Sabah, it’s gonna be weird as people need to
across over the sea to reach to the terminal, increasing the time and cost of
completing the service and the shipment.
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