The company you work for is located at 100 Adelaide Street. Part of your suppliers are in Europe and part of them are in Asia. Most of your clients are in South California and North of Mexico. The purchases you make are usually full container load and the shipments to your clients vary from few boxes to 50 MT. There is a study showing the average weight of your shipment is around 5 MT.

You are the newly hired Logistics Manager. You want to convince your superior to make changes in the structure of the company. In order to do that you need to assess various possibilities. You will suggest how the company should structure itself in terms of logistics (your department).You are going to present your version of how thedepartment/company should work from now on. So you will build a plan how to explain to your boss (structure the plan in a report to be submitted with the presentation). You will explain the various aspects that led you to this conclusion/suggestion and then present the new structure.

1)How you are going to manage the global transportation aspects. What aspects should be considered and how you plan to address them.

2)Are you involving freight forwarder or 3^rd party logistics? Why? How would you choose them?

3)What are the challenges and issues you foresee for the company and your department.

4) Recommendations and quick overview on situation