Beschrijving

This report recommends best practices and techniques to make best use of available transport capacity. It aims to maximise vehicle fill and productive time whilst minimising empty runnings. Techniques, such as unit loads optimisation (including pallet height standards), multi-modal transport, vehicle technology, EDI, Supply Chain Optimisation Systems, Consolidation or Efficient Network Design, will help to reach these goals. The report concludes that in today’s environment it is no longer possible to ignore the transport implications of ECR supply chain concepts. Any supply chain decision has to take account of its effect on transport.