Transportation Jobs for Job Seekers
Transportation is a critical link in the supply chain and transportation management offers great opportunity for a career path. Within supply chain management, as the table below indicates, transportation represents the single largest cost element of most distribution systems.
| Cost of Distribution | |
| Cost element | Weighted average |
| Transportation | 44.3 |
| Warehousing | 19.9 |
| Inventory carrying costs | 19.2 |
| Order processing | 6.5 |
| Other | 6.0 |
| Administrative | 4.1 |
Today leading companies are using transportation as a differentiator to reduce costs, improve service, and increase shareholder value. Yet much more improvement is needed. Some areas of opportunities job seekers should pay attention and be prepared to discuss are the following:
• Current contracts, bid procedures and negotiations
• Inbound freight management freight terms, vendor allowance bracket pricing
• Product movement by traffic lane, rates and efficiencies
• Freight optimization
• Assessment of alternative transportation modes
• Benchmarks against other company performance standards and measurements
• Master partner ship /strategic alliances
• Freight payment
• Analysis of current policies, procedures and controls
• Outbound, inbound, inter-company freight movement coordination
• Use of decision support tools in logistics planning
• Shipment consolidation
• Load planning
• Inbound freight consolidation
• Cross docking
• Routing and scheduling
• Continuous moves
• Carrier selection
• Freight pricing, tariff and billing management
• Supply chain integration and planning
Transportation job seekers who wish to differentiate themselves should propose realistic market differentiators for their prospective employers that lead to achieving measurable savings with concurrent service improvement.
Transportation candidates should prepare to discuss how to evaluate the benefits of Internet transportation technology providers that bring functionality consistent with the prospective employer’s vision and that can accommodate upgrades and enhancements consistent with the prospective employer’s environment.
To begin your search for transportation jobs, all you need to do is input the locations of where you want to apply, indicate the job type (full time, contract, or both), and add any keywords that may be helpful when locating the ideal job for you. Your search will provide you with a number of different options and a variety of information, including the name of the company that is looking to hire, the title of the available position, the location of the position or company, the salary range, and the date that the job was first listed on the site. This will allow you to easily sort through the many available transportation jobs and find the ones that are best for you to apply for. Although you may not get them all, the more you apply, the more possibilities for employment will be presented to you.
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admin @ November 17, 2008
