Industrial Transport Management: What's New?

by DONALD F. WOOD, RICHARD S. NELSON

The industrial transportation manager makes arrangements for his or her firm's fright transportation needs. He or she stands between shipper's needs and available carriers. In a system analyst's chart of nodes and links in the supply chain, the firm's transportation manager is responsible for the links. Within the U.S. economy, purchases of freight transportation are approximately 6 percent of GDP. Despite the domestic transportation manager's pivotal role in the supply chain's day-to-day functioning, discussion of this role receives relatively little attention in academic journals.

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