Scheduling In Woolworths Transport Department
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Running Head: SCHEDULING IN TRANSPOT DEPARMENTScheduling In Woolworths Transport DepartmentStudent’s Name:Institution Affiliation:
SCHEDULING 2AbstractOrganizations are made up of different departments that work jointly to ensure the smooth running of the business activities. The transport department oversees the movement of products from the company to the market, the raw material from the source to the company and movement of any other staff within the duty. Proper coordination of all the activities within the transport department is essential to the business operations, and only if all the activities are well scheduled and implemented. The schedule is subject to change, depending on the certain both internal and external constraints.IntroductionEvery business organization thrives well with proper planning and coordination of all departments that oversee separate tasks and responsibilities. The departments include human resource, transportation department, marketing and sales department and production and service departments. Within the departments, various projects are supposed to be properly managed to conform to other departmental projects. The harmonious coordination of all the departments ensures successful management of the organization as a whole. The purpose of this article is to examine scheduling in the transport department, how it affects the operation of the company. It discusses the critical issues that arise within the department and how to resolve the issues and what should be done to improve on the transportation department about the scheduling of the activities. The article further examines the gaps, analyses them and come up with a proper revised operation management in relation Smart. It ends with an evaluation of the developed management process against the common best practices.
SCHEDULING 3Woolworths is an Australian largest supermarket chain that poses an extensive retail of about 995 throughout Australia and some in New Zealand (Arli et al., 2013). The company forms the second company by revenue in Australia and mainly deals with take away liquor, freshfood products such as fruits and vegetables, petrol, hotel and general merchandizes. Transport department at Woolworths oversees the movement of goods from the supermarkets, warehouses to various retail stores for easy distribution to customers, and the transportation of raw materials such as farm produce to various supermarkets and retail stores. The department uses a variety of means such as trucks ships and parcel services. For proper delivery of all these products, the departmental heads must do proper scheduling. Scheduling is definable as the process of arranging, controlling and optimizing the workload thereby allocating proper mechanism (Nurul,2017).Scheduling in transport department , therefore refers to the process of making a planned procedure in a written form for a particular objective concerning time for completion (Gestrelius et al., 2017). In the transport department, a schedule is drafted by the manager and it always indicates the period, the vehicle number and the personnel responsible for ensuring that a particular products or raw materials are taken to the required destination (Karuno & Yuda, 2011).For such proper movement, proper scheduling to get accomplished and the process requires logistical approach. Efficient scheduling of the transportation department needs deep concern in allocating the vehicles and determination of the routes within the given due dates (Michaelis & Schobel, 2009). Just like any other departments such as production, the transport department faces different issues that affect their scheduled programs on the delivery of the products to the determined by customers requirements and needs. Woolworths Company engagesitself with various types of transport modes, which are the road, rail air, and water. The transport
SCHEDULING 4department uses different criteria to determine e the form of transportation (Tian & Demeulemeester, 2013). In case of urgencies, the department, the department will deploy a more reliable, a quick mode such use as air transport while the bulk and heavy will require the use of trucks. The scheduling also depends on the stipulated delivery date, the possibility of product damage.The most common problems are the vehicle routing problem, bad weather, and poor status of vehicles. The Woolworths’ transport department scheduling program depends on numbers of issues such as the number of routes and destinations, the number of available drivers,the distance that is covered to make the distributions, the road systems and conditions, the nature of the goods to be distributed and the nature of circumstance. The schedules are into two different categories, which are local and international deliveries (Wang, 2013). The local transport schedule ensures distribution of the products within the locality of the company. Such moving the bulk loads of the products from the company to the airports, local warehouses ports using roads, while the international scheduling involves the movement of the products and the raw materials to and from the foreign countries (Sama et al., 2015). The process will include the use of contracted companies since Woolworths is not able to sustain the transportation of fruits and fresh vegetables from foreign countries such as United States, China, and Netherlands (Hanus & McClarre, 2016). The international movement involves different logistics such as freight forwarders, clearing agents and the service inspections that are responsible of ensuring that all the border-crossing goods conform to the policies.
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