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Shipping is basic process of
transporting goods and cargo. Virtually every product
ever made, bought, or sold has been affected by shipping.
Despite the many variables in shipped products and locations,
there are only three basic types of shipments: land, air,
and sea.
Shipping can more generally refer to the transport of
freight ("shipments"), independent of the mode of transport.
Shipping visits multiple sub section industries such as
transportation & logistics, supply chain management and
warehouse management.
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Land or "ground" shipping
is easily the most popular form of shipping. Even in Air
and Sea shipments, ground transportation is still required
to take the product from its origin to the airport or
seaport and then to its destination. Ground transportation
is typically more affordable than air or sea shipments,
so whenever possible shippers attempt to keep their freight
in trucks. Many trucks will take freight directly from
the shipper to its destination in what is known as a door
to door shipment. Vans and trucks of all sizes make deliveries
to sea ports and air ports where freight is moved in bulk
also. Many nations have built specialized naval ships
to ensure the free movement of legitimate cargo; these
"merchant navies" are essential to the world economy,
carrying the bulk of international trade. The ships are
also extremely expensive constructions themselves, being
some of the largest man-made vehicles ever. The term originates
with the shipping trade of wind power ships, and has come
to refer to the delivery of cargo and parcels of any size
above the common mail of letters and postcards.
What Heurion Consulting can
offer to the Shipping Industry?
Heurion Consulting identifies the shipping industry into
the following segments.
Heurion consulting can provide solutions
in each of these industries.
- Transportation & Logistics
- Supply chain Management
- Warehouse Management
Transportation & Logistics industry requires enormous
support from the software industry.
This industry identifies various
software and Information Technology requirements such
as
- Freight management
- Fleet management
- Operations Management
- CRM
- Parts Management
- Dock Management
Supply Chain Management is a system of multiple
operations which will transform raw materials and components
into finished products. It is a coordinated system of
organizations, people, activities, information and resources
in moving a product or a service in physical or virtual
manner from supplier/vendor to customer.
Heurion
Consulting provides services in the following segments
of Supply chain Management
- CRM development
- Order Management
- Product Management
-
Allocation, Forecasting and Inventory Management and much more...
Warehouse management is a system that looks
into stock rotation, inventory, consolidation, docking
etc., Warehouse management systems include Enterprise
Resource planning or accounting packages. This provides
a method of automatically receiving inventory, processing
orders and handling returns. Heurion Consulting possess
expertise in not only developing Warehouse management
systems, but also has the capability to integrate the
systems with other ERP systems and the web.
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