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A Framework For Analysing Long-Range Direct Shipping Logistics

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Purpose – To present a decision support system (DSS) enabling the analysis of the cost-effectiveness
of direct-shipping long-haul road transport policies, including full truck load (FTL) and less than truck
load (LTL) modes, and to select the optimal carrier.
Design/methodology/approach – Analytical estimation of transportation costs is provided in a
framework including an interactive computer procedure and a dedicated database structure capable of
characterizing the logistics system.
Findings – Main criticalities of manual logistic planning are: sub-optimal selection of carrier and
excessive use of LTL transport, while the optimal FTL vs LTL trade-off is not fully explored in practice.
Research limitations/implications – This is an analysis tool of user-defined scenarios and does
not provide the automatic synthesis of shipments planning. Admittedly, this model does not attempt to
optimize the shipping strategy, but to quantitatively assess the effects of the adopted decisions.
Practical implications – Alternative shipping policies can be compared to perform what-if
analyses and explore the outcome of alternative decisions (FTL vs LTL shipping modes) even in terms
of transportation expenditures. Allows rapid selection of the optimal motor carrier and assesses the
extra cost due to a sub-optimal choice. Gives the experienced manager a framework for critical
assessment of shipping decisions, suggesting improvement areas for cost reduction.

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Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

Industrial Management & Data Systems

No. Panggil

ATC LO FRA a

Penerbit

Italy : Emerald Insight., 2005

Deskripsi Fisik

26 p

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

0263-5577

Klasifikasi

LO

Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

Vol. 105 Iss 7 pp

Subjek

Distribution Management
Transport management

Info Detail Spesifik

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

Fratocchi, A.C. Caputo, L.

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