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CHAPTER 8 Transportation

Factors Influencing Transportation Costs • Product-related factors – density – stowability – ease or difficulty of handling – liability

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• Market-related factors – Degree of competition – Location of markets – Government regulation – Balance or imbalance of freight traffic – Seasonality – Domestic versus international movement

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Terms of Sale and Corresponding Buyer and Seller Responsibilities 1.Terms of Sale FOB Shipping Point, FREIGHT COLLECT Title passes to buyer Freight charges paid by buyer Seller

Buyer

Buyer pays freight charges. Buyer bears freight charges. Buyer owns goods in transit.

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3.Terms of Sale FOB Shipping Point, FREIGHT PREPAID AND CHARGED BACK Title passes to buyer Seller

Buyer

Seller pays freight charges. Buyer bears freight charges. Buyer owns goods in transit. Buyer files claims (if any).

Buyer files claims (if any). Freight charges paid by seller, then collected from buyer by adding amount to invoice.

2.Terms of Sale FOB Shipping Point, FREIGHT ALLOWED Title passes to buyer Freight charges paid by seller Seller

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Buyer

Seller pays freight charges. Seller bears freight charges. Buyer owns goods in transit. Buyer files claims (if any).

Source: Harold Fearon, Donald Dobler, and Ken Killen, The Purchasing Handbook, National Copyright © 2001 byManagement, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Association of Purchasing 1993, McGraw-Hill.

Terms of Sale and Corresponding Buyer and Seller Responsibilities (cont.)

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4.Terms of Sale FOB Destination, FREIGHT COLLECT Title passes to buyer

Buyer pays freight charges.

6.Terms of Sale FOB Destination, FREIGHT COLLECT AND ALLOWED Title passes to buyer

Buyer bears freight charges. Seller

Buyer

Seller owns goods in transit. Seller files claims (if any).

Freight charges paid by buyer

Seller

Buyer

Buyer pays freight charges. Seller bears freight charges. Seller owns goods in transit. Seller files claims (if any).

Freight charges paid by buyer, then charged to seller by deducting amount from invoice.

5.Terms of Sale FOB Destination, FREIGHT PREPAID Freight charges paid by seller

Title passes to buyer

Seller

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Buyer

Seller pays freight charges. Seller bears freight charges. Seller owns goods in transit. Seller files claims (if any).

Source: Harold Fearon, Donald Dobler, and Ken Killen, The Purchasing Handbook, National

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Five Basic Transportation Modes • • • • •

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Motor Rail Air Water Pipeline

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Comparison of US Domestic Transportation Modes Economic Characteristics

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Motor

Rail

Air

Water

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Pipeline

Cost

Moderate

Low

High

Low

Low

Market coverage

Point-topoint

Terminal-toterminal

Terminal-toterminal

Terminal-toterminal

Terminalto-terminal

Number of competitors

Many

Moderate

Moderate

Few

Few

Predominant traffic

All types

Low-moderate value, moderatehigh- density

High value, low moderate density

Low value, high density

Low value, high density

Average length of haul

Short to long Medium to long

Medium to long

Medium to long

Medium to long

Equipment capacity (tons)

10-25

5-125

1,000-60,000 30,0002,500,000

50-12,000

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Comparison of US Domestic Transportation Modes (cont.) Service Characteristics

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Motor

Rail

Air

Water

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Pipeline

Speed Availability

Moderate High

Slow Moderate

Fast Moderate

Slow Low

Slow Low

Consistency (delivery time variability)

High

Moderate

High

Lowmoderate

High

Loss and damage

Low

Moderatehigh

Low

Lowmoderate

Low

Flexibility (adjustment to shipper’s needs)

High

Moderate

Low

Low

Lowmoderate

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Nonoperating Third Parties

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Freight forwarders Shippers’ associations or cooperatives Transportation brokers Intermodal marketing companies or shippers’ agents • Third-party logistics service providers

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Major U.S. Agencies Regulating Transportation • • • •

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Surface Transportation Board Department of Transportation Federal Maritime Commission Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

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International Distribution Shipping Options

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Landbridge Rail

Landbridge

Minilandbridge Microbridge Rail

Truck/rail All-water All-water

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Source: Adapted from David L. Anderson, “International Logistics Strategies for the Eighties,” Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of Copyright1984, © 2001 The Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. the National Council of Phyisical Distribution Management, p. 363.by Used by McGraw-Hill permission of the Council of Logistics Management.

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