<P style="MARGIN: 0px">This is the most authoritative and complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing world-class supply chain transportation processes. Straight from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), it brings together up-to-the-minute principles, strategies, and decisions for cost-efficiently and effectively moving goods between sellers and buyers. CSCMP and Thomas Goldsby introduce crucial concepts including transportation modes, execution, and control; outsourcing, modal and carrier selection, and 3PLs; TMS technologies; ocean shipping, international air, customs, and regulation; and much more. Step by step, <I>The Definitive Guide to Transportation </I>helps you optimize all facets of transportation, one of the highest-cost, highest-impact areas of supply chain management. Coverage includes:</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Basic transportation management concepts and their essential roles in demand fulfillment</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Key elements, processes, and interactions of transportation operations management</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Design principles and strategies for establishing efficient, effective, and sustainable transportation operations</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">The critical role of technology in managing transportation operations and product flows</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Requirements and challenges of planning and moving goods between countries</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Best practices for assessing performance using standard metrics and frameworks</DIV> </LI> </UL>