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A 6 page paper describing shipping a truckload of goods from the production plant to the customer. The company calling for shipping is the manufacturer of digital telephone switches; its carrier is a national carrier that leases trucks for specific uses, leases fleets, and provides drivers on contract basis to businesses with continuing need for shipping. The first part of the paper describes the process; the last is a description of a trip from North Carolina to San Francisco in mid-winter. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_Truckin.doc
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manufacturing in which they have the inventory they need but no more so no excess capital is tied up in finished but unsold inventory; they frequently work with a JIT
labor force (all temporaries brought in for specific projects or seasonal fluctuations); and now they want JIT shipping as well (Engel, 1998). The Procedure A digital telephone switch manufacturers
factory floor is arranged in logical order and linear from beginning to end both of the production process and the production floor. Both end at the shipping department.
It is not warehousing, it is not a staging area for the switches to be transported to a warehouse. It is shipping, as to the customers place of business.
This company formerly maintained a fleet of trucks but in recent years has outsourced their shipping function to the point that the final shipping responsibility they have is preparing the
paperwork that will accompany the product as it leaves the dock. Ryder supplies both the trucks and drivers, but with a fleet and a contingent of drivers that work
exclusively for this manufacturer. Drivers report to the terminal, receive their orders and drive to the factory loading dock. These switches weigh several hundred pounds in their finished
state and are more than six feet tall, so each is mounted on its own custom-sized wheeled pallet and each has to be loaded and unloaded separately. Dock personnel employed
by the manufacturer normally load the trucks under the supervision of the driver-while it is their job to get the product off the dock and into the truck, it is
the drivers responsibility to ensure that he is traveling with a safe load that is packed well and secured within the trailer. A shifting load within the trailer can
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