Cost Reduction And Lead Time Management In Ocean Freight

Sea-freight is one of the most common ways for multinational enterprises to procure and deliver large quantities of goods,and the cost and transportation lead time of shipping service are the most important factors that can affect the selling price and the overall supply chain lead time.In multi-source supply markets,it is one of the important operations of the enterprise from the perspective of the integrated supply chain that how to allocate the expected demand to achieve the optimal use of sea freight services with different ocean carriers and smooth lead time management by considering the factors of shipping cost and transportation time together.This study takes the multinational furniture and home furnishing company "IKEA" as an example to discuss and analyze its supply chain system in the Asian region.This is done particularly in some areas and routes,where the new shopping mall business supply emergency and external market conditions cannot effectively under the condition of a service contract.Through data analysis and regression fitting,I attempted to establish shipping costs,the demand quantity distribution,the supply of delay,and the lead time management model.In addition,I applied to the calculation of the model,set up the annual procurement plan of the shipping service multi-source distribution plan for the number of carriers.These measures could be employed in negotiations and regular contract management for shipping service suppliers in the future.