Transportation challenges..?

Question

Can anyone name me some transportation challenges, and how Wal-Mart manages to solve them? Thx in advance.. ^^

Answer 1

Transportation challenges....wow, you're I'm going to run out of characters to use. Shipper doesn't have the order ready when the truck arrives or doesn't have any trailers pooled so they can have a loaded trailer for the truck to take right away. Once it's in the truckers hands, the truck could break down in the middle of nowhere, driver could run out of hours to legally drive and not make the designated time, the price of fuel or insurance goes up forcing rate increases. Then it gets to the consingnee...they may not have a dock ready to accept the truck or way to unload.

Wal-mart is heavily invested in technology. Their supply chain really is amazing and a model for other companies to use. They know how much of a product is in the store and when they need to reorder. They deal with the supplier and say I need x amount of this product this day. They only deal with big trucking companies that can spot trailers at the shipper or have a lot of trucks so pickups and deliveries can be managed, trucks are satellite tracked so they know where the product is, another truck can relay the trailer if the truck goes down, etc.

Wal-Mart has distribution centers spaced out around the country, so freight goes there and is broken down and loaded on a Wal-Mart truck real fast. Once the Wal-mart truck gets to the store, the product literally goes right out onto the store floor...there's hardly any room in the back. So in a way, they use the trailers pooled at the shipper, en route to the distribution center, then the trailer pooled at the DC till it's unloaded...like a day..as their warehouse. Also, when the Wal-mart truck is done with store deliveries, they'll send that truck to a nearby shipper to get loaded going back to the DC.

Answer 2

current transporation system are un efficiency and devilishly depend upon scarce resources.