transportation and distribution management

1. i)  ASSIGNMENT TOPIC:

Select an organization that you’re familiar with and assume that you are the transportation manager of this organization. (NO CARRIER/ 3PL or COMPANY SELLING TRANSPORTATION SERVICE CANNOT USE)

Analyse the effectiveness of these three aspects of the transportation management, namely incoterms selection consideration, carrier selection criteria, and carrier relationship management.

The article must fulfil the following requirements:

• More marks will be awarded for reports which provide more detailed discussion and in-depth analysis with adequate referencing to the transportation theories, concepts and models.

1. ii)  ASSIGNMENT FORMAT:

Report should be presented as follows:

• Introduction – Outline the background and purpose of this essay (about 100 words) and provide the key information about the selected organization (about 200 words), information includes products, markets, competitors, organizational goals and strategies etc.

• Incoterms Selection Consideration – Analyse the effectiveness of transportation capability of the selected organization and its relevant information. Recommend the appropriate Incoterm(s) to be used. Incoterms diagrams are permitted to help explain concepts. (about 500 words). (Lecturer instruction: use version 2010 incoterms, recommend 2-3 incoterms for which incoterms you want to apply for the products**) (Please refer to attachment for more details on recommendation)

• Carrier Selection Criteria – Analyse the transportation goals and needs of the selected organizaaation and the relevant information. Recommend the appropriate criteria to be considered when selecting carrier(s) (about 500 words). (Lecturer instruction: to be given this following week)

• Carrier Relationship Management – Analyse the transportation goals and needs of the selected organization and the relevant information. Recommend the appropriate type(s) of relationship to be built with the carriers and the process of building the relationship (about 500 words). (Lecturer instruction: to be given next week)

• Conclusion – Reinstates all of the significant parts of this report and refers the reader back to the focus that have outlined in the introduction and to the central topic. This give the report a sense of unity. (about 200 words)

Referencing – All sources referred to in your essay, including any diagrams, must be referenced to in-text and be included in a full reference list at the end of the assignment, according to the APA system of referencing.

You are required to consult and fully reference a minimum of 10 references (e.g. books; www; journal article from the full-text database; current affairs magazine; newspaper etc.) The use of WIKIPEDIA is not allowed.

NOTE:

1)    The word range of this essay is about 2,000(+/- 10%) words.

2)    Spacing 1.5 with font size 12 using Arial font style.

3)    You must use APA referencing system to acknowledge your sources of information. (both in-text, and as a reference list at the end).Every paragraph must have at least one in-text/citation (including introduction, recommendation and conclusion.

4)    Please kindly rephrase with your own words as when i submit the essay there will be a percent rate of plagiarism.

Grading Criteria