Analizing Transportation in Supply Chain

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Information background: Developing a new transportation-system requires legal advice for evaluating regulations imposed by countries. For example EU establishes TIR-rules for movement of goods within the EU-region (UK-TaxTIR, 2013), CO2 emissions requirements (UK-CO2, 2013) and special licensees (UK, 2013) for truck-transportation. The labor-law cost and tax-reductions benefits for new investments should be determine before develop at self or joint transport solution Table one resume the general aspects for ABC transport system evaluation: Aspects to evaluate Maintain actual outsource transport activity Developed a joint venture with Suppliers and Customers Developed ABC wholly-own-transport system Short-run cost analysis and equilibrium point (Parkin, 2011) 1)Evaluate if increase demand is supported with actual structure fix-cost 2)Evaluate Costumers demand in long run versus project investment with mix-capital investment 3)Evaluate full investment project versus company cash flow Type of transportation options Actual: train, truck, boat and aircraft (not change) Route evaluation analysis (RE) for optimal transport system decision RE Delivery perform Actual system performs at same speed for customers (not change) Evaluate positive customers impact for increase speed Speed on delivery versus additional cost ( trade-off analysis) It is important to determine the road-map considering countries preferences such as: air-facilities (i.e. HK-facilities), road-rail facilities (i.e. Europe) and road-truck-facilities (i.e. USA). For deciding the optimal road-map-transportation it is important to determine: • Distributor-storages, , for example ABC should evaluate the benefits of changing actual warehouse for a duck-point warehou... ... middle of paper ... ... Hall. NZ. (2013) NZ transport analysis [Online]. Available from: http://ipond.nzta.govt.nz/reporting/performance/workspace/ihtml/OpenDoc?DocInstanceID=1&DocUUID=0000013eca4bba33-0000-0dd5-0a120385&DocVersion=1&isSmartcut=true (Accessed: 13 December, 2013). Parkin, M. (2011). Output and Cost. London: Person. UK. (2013) UK transport and distribution [Online]. Available from: https://www.gov.uk/transport-and-distribution-for-international-trade (Accessed 13 December 2013). UK-CO2. (2013) Planning CO2 [Online]. Available from: http://www.transportdirect.info/web2/journeyplanning/journeyemissionscompare.aspx?&repeatingloop=Y (Accessed 13 December 2013). UK-TaxTIR. (2013) EU Tansport Tax System [Online]. Available from: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/resources/documents/customs/procedural_aspects/transit/tir/transit_manuel_tir_en.pdf (Accessed 13 December 2013).

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