Operative Transportation Planning

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Focusing on operational challenges in the consumer goods industry, this book addresses the complexities of outsourced transportation services amid rising freight costs. It explores a network involving suppliers, production facilities, and warehouses, offering a detailed analysis of freight costs tied to contractual agreements. The author identifies efficiency improvement opportunities and formulates an operative transportation planning problem for numerical investigation. Additionally, it provides insights into transportation management processes and the integration of existing Transportation Management Systems (TMS).