Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Transportation Problem
Transportation problem is one very important thing and always present in the delivery of goods, while the cause is a change from time to time because of the many variables surrounding. Among the weather is not predictable, the quality of roads that do not meet the standard, the density of vehicles per day is always increasing, but not offset by the addition of road capacity or omissions in the delivery driver.

The first thing that the weather has an important influence, especially in countries that have a base such as the Indonesia archipelago, where the state of the high sea waves and weather must be considered in the transportation problem.

So the good weather forecast can solve the problem, but it is different with the selection of routes to be taken by a firm in delivering the goods up to the consumer. Distance companies must pay attention to the warehouse and storage capacity that will be addressed.

Determination of Route Fleet

In the transportation problem has been mentioned that the route to be taken must consider the distance to the warehouse and warehouse storage capacity. Distance is a major component in this case should be noted that the shortest route is not the main thing that must be considered but must consider also the capacity of the warehouse because people are always wrong by giving priority to those factors as a basis for delivery of goods.
Facilitate the selection of routes must consider many things such as distance, travel time, a lot of fuel used or the security of travel routes. All these things should be noted that the risk of selection errors can be minimized so as not to cause too much damage.
Understanding of the characteristics of the route can be understood and used so as not to cause the swollen storage costs due to the goods stored in warehouse storage for too long resulting in high costs of production costs.


Selection of Mode of Transport

A shipment of goods from one area to another area does require a careful and precise calculations in order to avoid the risks so as to reduce the cost of their transportation costs. Previously described transport problems, and determine the route the fleet, so it continues on the selection mode of transport.

Transport vehicle in question here is who can make delivery of goods to the destination that consumers who need the goods. The primary use of transport is delivered quickly and on time. As for other factors that influence the choice of transport when associated with cost minimization, which is looking for a cheap transport but can be unreliable or has a maximum speed and not on time or late.

Professionalism in every routine delivery job, then a delay to a matter that should be avoided because it involves the timeliness of a preferred customer or user of goods.

Facilities Siting

The last stages in logistics and supply chain systems is how to determine the location of storage facilities for products to be sold to consumers, because not every time, consumers always buy the same product. If we as a provider of goods or a distributor or manufacturer it will always be provided for the needs of consumers, although consumers do not need these products, because consumers' needs are always changing with time.

Delivery of goods easily and quickly is a matter that must be met to ensure satisfaction to the consumer because of course if we do not want our customers to move to a manufacturer or product provider.