Description

Background

Efficient management of the flow of materials throughout an organization’s supply chain is of critical importance. Fleet and transportation management plays a vital role in ensuring sustainable supply availability. Minor inefficiencies in logistics and transport can add significant cost and delay to standard operations and projects.  An important aspect of this operation is the management of vehicle maintenance, drivers’ capacity building, and end-to-end logistics management. Developed performance can reduce costs and increase customer satisfaction.

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Benefits

This course will provide you with:

• Inspect the most effective road transport management practices
• Understand new trends in end-to-end transport management
• Explore new methods and technologies in vehicle and transport management
• Examine the function of a transport manager
• Benefit from greater insight into the sourcing transport service providers
• Study the use of negotiation techniques with service providers, insurance providers, and clients
• Improve a strategy to better management of vehicles including service and maintenance
• Study the right platforms and software for transport management
• Understand the right set of skills, attitudes and knowledge required for drivers

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Who Should Attend

Business professionals who work in administration, transport management, senior drivers, logistics management, warehousing and materials management would find this training workshop extremely beneficial.

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Curriculum

 Day One

• The role of the road transportation system
• Transportation in the Supply Chain
• The connection between other modes of transport (Air Transport, Rail Transport, Sea) with road transport
• End-to-end relationship between transport modes
• Corporate Coordination for fleet and transportation management

 

 Day Two

• Vehicle purchase vs contract
• Road transport cost estimation
• Contract management for fleet hire
• Safety and environmental considerations in fleet and transportation management
• Accident management
• Driver’s training

 

Day Three

• Vehicles inventory management systems
• Vehicle depreciation calculation
• Insurance management
• Traffic management
• Parking lots management
• Fuel management

 

Day Four

• Vehicle preventive maintenance best practices
• Tire maintenance and selection
• Warranty and service management
• Spare parts stocking and supply management
• Workshop management
• In-house vs. outsourced service management