Issues and solutions in transportation logistics management

Transportation and Logistics Management

Adding value to the end of the transport and logistics chain

Taking into account the globalization of almost all the services provided, the transport sector will not be left behind. There is a changing perspective and arising needs within the transport sector and the moving of material and solutions will continue facing a myriad of new approaches hence only the easily adaptable and flexible companies will continue expanding their niches. This change in the demand patterns in moving of material and solutions therefore means there will be need for transport and logistics companies to reinvent themselves and add value to the end of the current transport chain.

My thesis statement is; Bearing the continued diversification of the client needs and integration prompted by globalization, there is immediate need to add value to the existing transport and logistics chain particularly on the side of the receiving clients. The basic transport chain is often reflected as starting from the sender or supplier passing over the goods to the transporter and ending when the goods are delivered to the indicated recipient (Eastern Asia Society for Transport Studies, 2005:1659). This needs to have a further expansion and the necessary value added to the delivery point. There have been efforts there before to enrich the transport and logistics by introducing things like reverse logistics, but this does not fully satisfy the changing needs within this industry. The research envisions a number of options that are geared towards presenting further solutions related to the commonly transported goods and services that will be of benefit to the receivers. It is expected that many options that will go further than just doorstep delivery but also the utility, disposition and strategic location of the delivered goods.

The research on the transport value addition will be predominantly on the primary source basis. There will be interviews conducted with the customers who frequently use the transport services. The interviews will be majorly through phone calls since most of the details of the frequent can easily be retrieved from the company's data of clients. There will also one on one interviews conducted with members of the public randomly picked in order to know what their expectations are from the transport industry. These interviews will be carried out by volunteers who will be enlisted by the researcher at an agreed on pay. To get further knowledge on the transport ideals and past trends against which to contextualize and analyze the data, there will be use of secondary sources from books and most importantly transport magazines and transport websites.

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