Overview
Strategic: l Strategic decisions concern the whole organization, such as the size and location of manufacturing sites, partnerships with suppliers, products to be manufactured and sales markets.
Tactical: Tactical decisions focus on adopting measures that will produce cost benefits such as using industry best practices, developing a purchasing strategy with favored suppliers, working with logistics companies to develop cost effect transportation and developing warehouse strategies to reduce the cost of storing inventory.
Operational: Operational decisions involve making schedule changes to production, purchasing agreements with suppliers, taking orders from customers and moving products in the warehouse.
Our experience with Tactical and Operational issues of transportation and constant vigilance of markets for transportation and related services can ensure the proper mix and cost of essential services that include:
• Consolidator and Non Vessel Owning Ocean Carrier (NVOOC),
• Customs brokering,
• Favorable purchase order terms like FOB origin, XWorks, CIF, FOB destination, etc.
• Freight forwarding,
• Inspection
• Local cartage,
• Ocean carriage – best for product weighed with costs,
• Origin portage planning and terminal choice,
• Small package and express consolidation and carriage,
• State-side portage,
• Trucking and local cartage – State-side
At MWI we can help implement an efficient and accurate freight procurement methodology. MWI will collaborate on streamlining and optimizing your transportation and supply chain strategies based on your tactical and operational needs.
To ensure that the transportation and supply chain logistics are operating as efficiently as possible and generating the highest level of customer satisfaction at the lowest cost, MWI has adopted abroad view of transportation and supply chain management processes and associated technology. From our perspective, there are three levels of activities that the customer should focus on: strategic, tactical, and operational.
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