Operation Management

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Transport planning...........................................................................................................................4
Current operations and issues faced by transporting company.......................................................6
Vehicle fleet maintenance................................................................................................................8
Task scheduling.............................................................................................................................10
Vehicle programming....................................................................................................................12
Manual planning with using manufactures maintenance schedule................................................15
Cost analysis and human resource evaluation...............................................................................16
In- house audit practice and vehicle accident investigation process.............................................16
Recommendations..........................................................................................................................17
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................18
References......................................................................................................................................19

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Introduction
The aim of this report is to carry out analysis of operation management of a fleet and transport
business. This report basically covers the knowledge and application of transport planning along
with the vehicle fleet maintenance of company. In addition, the report also discuses task
scheduling for the business to carry out smooth functioning of business with including the
vehicle programming using software and manual planning with the usage of manufactures
maintenance schedule and in –house audit practice. The report determines cost analysis of fleet
management company with the concern to having loss of $1/2 million dollar within the time
duration of 3 years. Furthermore, the report analyzes the internal analysis of company its
complex challenges and issues that are affecting company’s fleet management operations.
Additionally, Transport Company is facing the issue with vehicle accident so that the report
presents accident investigation process to resolve the issues in satisfactory manner.

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Transport planning
The transport management system is basically an important sector which deals in transportation
and fleet management through carrying out the operations. The transport management system is
anticipated as subset of supply chain management which is focused on managing the operational
activities through vehicle. As per the case scenario, a transport company possesses the wide
range of vehicles such as dump trucks, delivery trucks, excavator plants, caterpillar bulldozers,
road rollers, mobile service and fuel truck and transit trucks. Therefore, the transport business is
also engaged into the management of commercial vehicles.
The transport management has evolved dramatically as it has made the operational activities
easy, efficient and cheap for different businesses and industries to perform their supply chain,
transportation and operations in effective manner. The transport concept is a valuable aspect that
can be defined as the movement or transfer of goods and human being from one place to another.
There are several methods through which the transportation is carried out such as land, water and
air (Black, 2018). The transportation is linked to the economic development of organization and
nation as well. Therefore, transport planning is very important process which includes the
initiation of policies and strategies to add value in the transportation process and accomplish the
goals in context of transport.
For the given case, the transportation planning is essential to implement the policies and
practices so that the transportation can be done in significant manner. The given transport
business is facing the challenges with respect to its maintenance, operating and controlling the
fleet in an effective manner.
The transpiration planning for the given business is as follows

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For the transport planning, it is aimed to improve the maintenance within 1 year of time duration.
In order to meet the objective, Transport Company needs to develop an investigation on
performance of the company and make effective decisions to improve the performance of
transport business. The transport planning will use land for parking the vehicles of company.
Along with this, the transport company will also develop the policies regarding demand of traffic
demand along with encapsulating social needs. On the other hand, the safety policies are also
implemented with respect to the public and employees health. The company has planned to
expand and enhance the quality of its maintenance so that the vehicles can work for long term in
efficient manner (Johansson, Tornberg and Fernström, 2018). Additionally, the company will put
efforts on employing the budget as $25 million. With this, the perspective public will also be
involved to improve the fleet services. With this, the environment perspective will also be
considered as a key aspect of transport planning so that environmental issues such as pollution in
air, water and land can be minimized with the better utilization of resources. In order to reduce
the cost of unnecessary activities in transportation operations, an effective cost planning with be
developed as a business strategy (Hamurcu and Eren, 2018).

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Figure: Process of Transportation planning and decision – making
(Source: Shoup, 2018)
In order to improve the performance of the company, above transportation planning process will
be implemented in resilient manner. As per the review of current business situation, first of all
short–term plans will be developed so that the challenging issues can be minimized in the
business operations. Further, the long–term planning will be carried out in order to strengthen the
position of Transport Company in the market.
Current operations and issues faced by transporting company
As per the given scenario, a transport leading business is operating its operations in fleeting of
dump truck, company vehicle, delivery truck, transit vehicle and earth moving plants. On the
other hand, the transport business also possess the fleet maintenance department in which all of