Today's companies and modern day efficiencies in transportation have been getting quite a bit of help from supply chain professionals and the latest technologies. Think of the types of product delivery companies and service companies there are and how they operate. Consider the public's everyday needs and emergency services, which must be just in time at the critical time of need. These professionals have to stay efficient to conserve costs and operate on a strategic grid plan to insure proper service to all on a timely basis. This of course is essential to good quality prompt service and for safety of our people. If you think of a Football play or Net-Centric Warfare Event you can see the similarities to modern service strategies in transportation. A disease vector using the blood stream to transport itself and then transfer to another host through the natural flow of species interaction uses a similar strategy; a system of roads and efficiency in distribution. Even something as simple as delivering the mail, milk or newspapers every day to the same addresses, every thing involves transportation. All these transportation systems can be studied and controlled by use of computer programs such as the ones designed by ESRI with hundreds of vendors who design add on systems. Transporting energy, water, fuels, cable TV, etc also work on a grid theory in order to make delivery possible. No matter what macro or micro system of transportation you are describing, the key to survival is in simple redundant systems and efficient logistical processes. And although we now have high tech tools, really this is nothing new to human beings. When looking at our efficiencies in transportation, we must understand it is a system and there is no one who understands that better than an entrepreneurs working in a competitive free enterprise market. Clearly the motivation is there from a profit perspective to a goal-oriented mission to deliver the goods, on time. Think about it. |
