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<
“The knowledge I gained I can apply immediately to my job.”
Jeremie Birch, Traffic Coordinator, Banta Healthcare, Neenah, Wisconsin
“Performance metrics relate how a transportation person can show value/savings to a company.”
Robert Boll, GTS Transportation Coordinator, Donaldson Company, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota
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