Watch this video
Write a summary of what Don Norwood, the President of HDL tells about the company
Case 1
Find answers for the following
1. What does cross-dock mean?
2. What does this cross-dock mean in practice in the Atlanta facility?
3. What was Mark Stewart from Rayloc hired to do?
4. What problem did Mark Stewart start to study?
5. What did he find out?
6. Which two things turned out to be the key problems?
7. What's the trailer load backlog problem?
8. What solutions were there?
9. How much time/money was saved?
Case 2 (10 cases)
Printing/Publishing
Are the following statements True or False
1. Haulage is the main means of delivering the goods by this client.
2. The problem is irregular demand for their goods.
3. Pickup times have a remarkable role in the solution offered to this client.
4. The solution includes service operators
5. The client now uses this freight forwarding company (SBA) for deliveries up to 100 lbs.
6. The customers of this publishing company are happy with the new freight forwarding solution.
7. The after-hour pickups with next day delivery are problematic.
Military/Government/Defence
What do the following expressions mean
- in conjunction with
- domestic
- time-critical
- availability
- door-to-door delivery
- vital
- to facilitate
- audiovisual
- to ensure
- committed
- margin for error
- to this end
- pre-briefing press documents
- rigid
- security protocol
- unauthorized access
- critical
- to meet deadlines
- civilian transportation
- mobility
- time restraint
- prior to
- entourage
Watch this video.
A Career in Freight Forwarding. Fill in the missing words.
1. Getting highly____________ produce to its _______________ in tiptop condition is the job of a
_______________ freight forwarder.
2. Cameron......based in the office, is in charge of ________________ salmon from M. to destinations
_________________
3. I'm responsible for __________________that the product __________________, is the right _______, and is here ________________, ...and also making sure that any _______________ that we have to send with it are _________________ and _________________
4. ...the facility has large ____________________ and ____________________
5. It goes around the meat and around the ___________________ to keep it ________________ cold when it is __________________________
6. The journey of the salmon starts in the M.S. where the New Zeeland ______________________ and farma are located and it is sent _______________________ down to C. here and then on __________ usually within 48 hours...
7. The salmon is been booked to leave on __________________ Quantas ______________ to Sydney and on to _______________. An ____________________ has to be created so the ____________ and _______________ neede, customs _____________________ and allocation of codes is entered into the system.
8. This is the airline ____________________ we're gonna be _________________. The whole thing is on rolls.
9. This can hold over __________________
10. For example, we may have an aircraft __________________....if this happens it may miss a ________ or it may not go at all.
11. ...one of our flower shipments that are coming in is slightly ___________________ booked so we've got to __________________ and get them to ___________________
12. Hi, it's Britney here from HPL. I've got a ______________________ here but I need to __________ to _______________kg
13. One of the biggest challenges is actually __________________and_________________ on to the airlines. I always try to _________________________ for the entire month...
14. Hitting out on the same plane as the bunch of salmon is _______________________ frozen beef. Britney gets to find out how to turn an _________________ into a _______________
15. So, safely _____________and with ___________________ transmitted...
