Industrial Transportation Management: Improving Business and Personal Performance

How do you manage the transportation process?

The emphasis in industrial transportation management (ITM) is shifting to managing and running a “quality, cost-effective operation” while making a sound contribution to the organization's bottom-line profits. There is an increasing need to do a better job of budgeting and controlling freight expenses, focusing on past efficiencies using fewer resources. This is a hard-hitting, practical course that helps you:

Scope management responsibilities for freight transportation
Set your department’s targeted performance and contribution to the company
Understand key transportation processes, metrics and Transportation Management Systems (TMSs©) to achieve a high performance operation
Integrate quality process improvement approaches into corporate and industrial transportation management

During this course, you will…

Learn how to process-map industrial transportation management (ITM)
Learn job responsibilities and how to configure your ITM organization
Discuss how to sell top management on the role of transportation — get out of the commodity game focusing on transportation costs and learn how ITM makes a difference with customers
Review environmental forces and essential transportation statistics
Identify key result areas and metrics of transportation performance
Identify alternative TMSs and tools to enable process improvement
Develop programs to reduce or eliminate recurring service problems
Discuss the role of outsourcing in planning and managing transportation services
Get solid answers to your specific problems and concerns in ITM

Who benefits the most?

This course is specifically designed to benefit:

Supply chain leaders with ITM responsibilities
Industrial transportation directors and vice presidents
Traffic managers and analysts; distribution, logistics and planning analysts
Specialists and staff involved in transportation planning, budgeting and control aspiring to become managers and directors

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Extended Training Description

Day 1

Identification of your needs and challenges

Transportation as a business planning process — a business plan framework

Defining the vision, mission and accountabilities of the transportation team
Impact of corporate values, assumptions and forecasts on transportation performance — dealing with “where is the ‘ship’ going?”
Assessing the impact of external forces on ITM, such as dealing with carrier cost drivers — labor, insurance, workers’ compensation expense increases, fuel price adjustments, carrier increases and indices, and changes in the business environment
Why the impact of transportation and logistics in supply chain management can’t be ignored!

Workshop to process-map two critical ITM processes for improved performance and accountability

Taking a holistic approach to improved transportation performance for total cost reduction and improved fulfillment
- Process-mapping the freight shipment allocation process from modal selection to carrier delivery
- Process-mapping the freight bill charges determination, billing, payment and auditing processes
Critical decision points in setting transportation policies for compliance — involved parties and procedures for allocating costs

Industrial transportation metrics to report and recognize performance

How do you segment customer needs and requirements for transportation performance?
Transportation performance measures of work and productivity — top management and operational
Where and how to source base data — alternative EDI and data capture and collection systems
Educating and reporting to top management and your internal and external customers
Use of GIS mapping and business intelligence software to report traffic movements and variances from expectations

Day 2

Detailed budgeting and transportation performance control — case studies and approaches

Forecasting the total budget — freight, capital equipment, personnel, supplies and expenses
Identifying sources of budgeting variation to avoid “dying in averages”
Dealing with “variability” in transportation activities

Transportation management processes and enabling systems

Strategic systems
- Network and carrier analysis/rationalization
Tactical systems components and day-in-the-life of an order
- Shipment planning
- Freight payment
- Visibility and business intelligence
- Sourcing, selecting and managing TMS applications

Role of logistics outsourcing in gaining the resources to get the job done

Trends in logistics outsourcing — the blurring in services between third-party LSPs and Information Technology Providers (ITPs)
Key reasons behind the outsourcing trend
Major third-party logistics providers: capabilities, asset versus non-asset 3PL models, IT support
Third-party logistics provider pricing and operational benchmarking
Cap session — tips on being a business person first and a technician second
CEOs, CFOs, COOs — how executives view transportation and logistics management
How the “-ings of business management” are impacting your business and career future
Prioritizing your needs to determine take-home action items