Transportation logistics: national distribution

Even though the transportation logistics has long been organizing the process of distribution of products, after the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing, the means that connect producers and consumers have become essential, falling on them all the responsibility of designing and implementing new and better ways to operate the supply chain. In other words, the transportation of products, being raw materials or finished products, had to optimize the way in which they are transported, ensuring the integrity and complying with the deadlines.

Purposes of the transportation logistics

Optimizing transit and distribution of products aims to achieve the following objectives:

• Constantly improving customer service, avoiding circumstances that could prevent meeting deadlines, solving unexpected events quickly and efficiently and always assessing the way that routes are established to mend mistakes or maximize good decisions.
• Transportation represents an important item of the budget of a client, so the logistics must design the routes trying to save as much resources as possible, for the client and the transportation company.
• Even if we know that logistics allow to meet deadlines, we can always think of ways to reduce the set times. It’s essential to study the route network maps to choose the best option in a dynamic context (traffic jams, accidents, construction works).

Benefits of having external transportation and distribution logistics.

Today, it’s essential to have a professional management or a logistics and transportation management for the meaningful impact it has on the strengthening, development, growth and consolidation of a business. Different factors affect either the price of the product or the image that a consumer has of it, and especially the latter will depend on how fast and the conditions the transported goods arrive to their destination. Without the benefits of having a good logistics, transportation and distribution management could negatively impact different aspects of the business, preventing an optimal development.

Some benefits of having transportation and distribution logistics are:

• The client can count on the product arriving on a set period of time and in the specific conditions at the moment of making the purchase, but in the case of there being a delay on the delivery or that the goods are damaged, the image of the company could be negatively impacted due to an aspect unconnected to the product, but to the transportation. Having a good transportation logistics management ensures both, time and way, to be fulfilled, adding value to the product.
• Having a good transportation and distribution logistics management will let clients focus exclusively on what they must do, having the chance to enhance their product or line without getting distracted with other tasks.
• Outsourcing product transportation and distribution to a logistics company implies not wasting time studying current regulations that constantly change in the cargo transportation industry.
• The transportation and distribution of a product are aspects that impact on its final cost, so establishing a route that saves fuel, time and space could imply that the cost of a product could decrease, affecting positively the finance of consumers, the quality of the service and/or the profitability of the business.
• Last, a business that aspires to grow will need to be in the right place to deal with new markets, so it’s fundamental to have an external transportation and distribution logistics company that can solve, given its knowledge and experience in the industry, problems related to storage and delivery in the new destinations.