INDUSTRIAL TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT: WHAT'S NEW?

The industrial transportation manager makes arrangements for his or her firm's freight transportation needs. He/she stands between shippers' 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% of GDP. Despite the domestic transportation managers' pivotal role in the supply chain's day-to-day functioning, discussion of this role receives relatively little attention in academic journals. To aid in updating the understanding of transportation managers' current duties and perspectives, a survey was conducted using labels provided by the Council of Logistics Management roster. About 600 names were chosen that had either "traffic" or "transportation" in the their title. This paper reports the results of the survey with the authors' interpretations and conclusions provided.

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  American Society of Transportation and Logistics

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• Authors:
  • Wood, D F
  • Nelson, R S
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 26-30
• Serial:
  • Transportation Journal
  • Volume: 39
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: American Society of Transportation and Logistics
  • ISSN: 0041-1612
  • Serial URL: http://www.jstor.org/page/journal/transportationj/about.html

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Administrative and managerial personnel; Freight traffic; Freight transportation; Managerial personnel; Operations; Surveys; Transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Industrial transportation managers
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00789521
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 28 2000 12:00AM