Logistics & Transportation
How goods actually reach a site: choosing between road, sea, air and rail, understanding who bears cost and risk under common delivery terms, getting the documents and packing right, and handling the delays, damage and remote-site realities that follow. For anyone who orders, ships, expedites or receives materials.
55m
Total time
4
Competency levels
12
Lessons
What you'll learn
- Compare road, sea, air and rail transport on cost, speed, capacity and reliability, and choose a mode for a given consignment
- Explain when air freight is a justified decision and when it is the symptom of a planning failure
- Describe at a conceptual level how common delivery terms split cost and risk between buyer and seller
- Identify the core shipping documents and explain what each one is for
- Specify packing and marking suitable for long sea legs and harsh-climate remote sites
- Carry out an incoming inspection, protect a damage claim, and recognise the dangerous goods duty to declare
Curriculum
Progress through each competency level in order.
1
Awareness
- 3mTransport Modes and the Cost, Speed and Reliability Trade-OffKnowledge
- 3mLead Time: What It Is Made Of and Why Variability HurtsKnowledge
- 7mAwareness Check: Modes and Lead TimeAssessment
2
Knowledge
- 3mWho Pays and Who Carries the Risk: Incoterms in ConceptKnowledge
- 3mShipping Documents and the Duty to Declare Dangerous GoodsKnowledge
- 8mKnowledge Check: Terms, Documents and Dangerous GoodsAssessment
3
Skill
- 3mPacking, Marking, Receipt and Damage ClaimsKnowledge
- 3mAssignment: Plan One Consignment End to EndAssignment
- 8mSkill Check: Packing, Receipt and ClaimsAssessment
4
Mastery
- 3mRemote-Site Logistics RealitiesKnowledge
- 3mAssignment: Analyse and Improve Inbound Logistics PerformanceAssignment
- 8mMastery Assessment: Logistics Judgement Under PressureAssessment
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