Transport System for Frankfurt Airport: Operations and Information Management

Running head: OPERATION AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Transport system for Frankfurt Airport
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1OPERATION AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction................................................................................................................................2
2.0 Management of inventories and assets within the production system.......................................2
3.0 Key operations involved in chosen production system.............................................................5
4.0 Failure of organization’s delivery system to align operational performance measures............7
5.0 Lean approach utilized in the production system to reduce failings.........................................8
6.0 Key findings on lean approach assistsselected production system............................................9
7.0 Conclusion...............................................................................................................................11
References......................................................................................................................................12

2OPERATION AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
1.0 Introduction
In this assignment, the selected production system is the transport system for the
Frankfurt Airport. This international airport is located in Frankfurt, one of the largest cities in
Germany. It is being operated by Fraport and serves as the main hub for Lufthansa includes of
Lufthansa CityLine and Lufthansa Cargo. In Germany, this airport is the busiest airport based on
passenger traffic. The airline industry is providingtransportation services to the passengers, and
also cargo therefore; the main production system for the airline industry is a transport system
(Frankfurt-airport.com 2017). The selected system is an enabler to achieve economic growth as
well as development.
The report is based on critically appraise the inventories and assets into the production
system. The key operations of the selected transport system are discussed with presenting a
logical operational flow. There is also an illustration of two points where the organization’s
delivery system may fail to align its operational performance measures.A lean approach is
utilized in the production system to reduce failings. Finally, the findings are analyzed to which
the lean approach would assist the production system with operational measures.
2.0 Management of inventories and assets within the production system
The paper discusses the development of the airline industry as a branch of the transport
system and highlights the system characteristics of the airline sector. The transport system has
grown into a major sector of the global economy. Frankfurt Airport is looking to reduce the
freight spend while maintaining the service levels. Implementation of a transport system means
the integration of dynamic order allocation in transportation planning processes. The order
allocation functionality is incorporated with automatic shipment planning (Bamfordand Forrester
2010). Due to Frankfurt Airport’s success with the transport system, it improves transportation
data to enhance freight management capabilities (Greasley 2013). The company has enhanced
their transportation platform so that they can offer order along with inventory management dealt
withservices. The company is improvingtheir transportation services by optimization across
inventory.

3OPERATION AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
The transport system manages the inventory and assets of the selected organization by an
implementation of a warehouse management system which can track product to lot level and
permits accurate sequencing. The company move to vendor managed inventory model by the
development of warehousing relations with the suppliers. With the transport system, the
company can reduce freight expenses as the system can provide savings by analytics along with
optimization (Johnston and Clark 2008). It also tracks deliveries in real time by viewing the
pilots along with shipments. It provides to create effective route schedule by providing the pilots
with effective routes. The system provides improved passenger service levels with an ability to
monitor on-time performance. An online portal is provided where the customers can see where
the shipments are along with informing the passengers. Therefore, the transport system provides
increased customer services as they have the ability to access shipment and information of
freight when required. With a constant flow of both incoming along with outgoing inventory, the
warehouse is required as part of logistics processes. It creates a record of orders along with track
where it is located in the warehouse and in transit (Mardaniet al. 2016). Finally, the transport
system of Frankfurt Airport increases the efficiency of a supply chain as it has the ability to track
the pilots, inventory and airline processes which allow the company to increase its productivity
and provide savings to the users.
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