Please answer original forum with a minimum of 250 words Respond to both students on separate pages with a minimum of 100 words each  please follow directions or I will dispute!!! page1- Original Forum with References  page2- student Response  page3- student Response  Original Forum This week you will discuss transportation and logistics management and its impact on various economic activities. For example, how does transportation and logistics management impact a retailer getting their product on the shelf? How does their distribution network affect their ability to generate revenue as well as provide sustainability in their local economy? You will have to conduct online research to identify the various economic activities in relation to TLM and within the context of the retail industry. Discuss in detail and provide sources to support your thoughts, insights, ideas, and statements.  Complete this Forum by providing a discussion of the economy and your project topic. How does the economy affect your project topic? Is this affect beneficial or detrimental? Why? If beneficial, is there room for improvement?  If detrimental, what do you foresee as solutions?  Student Responses Jaimie  Hi everyone,  The Transportation Industry is cyclical in nature regarding economy. In one side of the coin, the transportation and logistics industry feed the economy. But in the other side economic progress and swings impact Transportation and Logistics.  It is part of the logistics operations to forecast the demand for transportation services in order to guarantee an on-time delivery to satisfy the customers. The higher the demand for the product, the higher the tempo of the supply chain will be, which, by nature, requires the agility of the transportation industry. As transportation services are profitably provided, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the industry increases, reflecting directly in the overall National GDP which is the main benchmark of the economy. Having a lower demand, would cause a contrary effect to the point explained above.   The economy definitely plays a huge role on the transportation and logistics. The economic swings can make or break an entire transportation company, if certain logistics processes are not in place. For example, the historical data collection, the analysis of that historical to forecast the demands for the products the company transports, in order to be prepared with the right inventory of transportation assets, and personnel, or with a cost-effective outsourcing solution. If the acquisition of assets and the maintenance is not well planned throughout the seasons, the company will fall into a seasonal economic hole, will be short during a sudden demand or during a transportation disruption.   Think about the production of Christmas trees for example. What would a transportation company do, if after the season its trucks remain unused? What if their assets are not enough to supply all Christma ...

1. Please answer original forum with a minimum of 250 words
Respond to both students on separate pages with a minimum of
100 words each
please follow directions or I will dispute!!!
page1- Original Forum with References
page2- student Response
page3- student Response
Original
Forum
This week you will discuss transportation and logistics
management and its impact on various economic activities. For
example, how does transportation and logistics management
impact a retailer getting their product on the shelf? How does
their distribution network affect their ability to generate
revenue as well as provide sustainability in their local
economy? You will have to conduct online research to identify
the various economic activities in relation to TLM and within
the context of the retail industry.
Discuss in detail and provide sources to support your thoughts,
insights, ideas, and statements.

2. Complete this Forum by providing a discussion of the economy
and your project topic. How does the economy affect your
project topic? Is this affect beneficial or detrimental? Why? If
beneficial, is there room for improvement? If detrimental, what
do you foresee as solutions?
Student Responses
Jaimie
Hi everyone,
The Transportation Industry is cyclical in nature regarding
economy. In one side of the coin, the transportation and
logistics industry feed the economy. But in the other side
economic progress and swings impact Transportation and
Logistics.
It is part of the logistics operations to forecast the demand for
transportation services in order to guarantee an on-time delivery
to satisfy the customers. The higher the demand for the product,
the higher the tempo of the supply chain will be, which, by
nature, requires the agility of the transportati on industry. As
transportation services are profitably provided, the Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) of the industry increases, reflecting
directly in the overall National GDP which is the main
benchmark of the economy. Having a lower demand, would
cause a contrary effect to the point explained above.
The economy definitely plays a huge role on the transportation
and logistics. The economic swings can make or break an entire
transportation company, if certain logistics processes are not in
place. For example, the historical data collection, the analysis

3. of that historical to forecast the demands for the products the
company transports, in order to be prepared with the right
inventory of transportation assets, and personnel, or with a cost-
effective outsourcing solution. If the acquisition of assets and
the maintenance is not well planned throughout the seasons, the
company will fall into a seasonal economic hole, will be short
during a sudden demand or during a transportation disruption.
Think about the production of Christmas trees for example.
What would a transportation company do, if after the season its
trucks remain unused? What if their assets are not enough to
supply all Christmas trees before 24 December?
The distribution systems is what the retailer benefit from.
Different products have different priorities of movement, and
specific mode of transportation pre-established to preserve the
physical integrity of the product. The hub-and-spoke system is
one of the most comfortable and reliable way to guarantee on-
time delivery. Products are transported on higher-volume
conveyances, to the hub, then on a smaller conveyance, whether
is a truck load, or less than truck load, or smaller aircraft to
regional airports, or on a barge using inland waterways to the
final destination. It will all depend on the type of product, the
required delivery date and final destination location, amongst
other factors.
The economy is part of my topic, and will be touched heavily to
explain, how a handful of companies with well-established
sustainability program trigger the demand for transportation
services, affecting positively that level of GDP of the
transportation industry and the overall economy.
Reference
Delve, S. (2014). How the Hub-and-Spoke Model Transformed
the

4. Transportation Industry. Retrieved from
http://www.inboundlogistics.com/cms/article/how-the-hub-and-
spoke-mode-transformed-the-transportation-industry/
Daum, M. (2010) Fleet Management; Cyclical nature takes
hold.
Retrieved from https://www.fleetowner.com/management/0501-
cyclical-takes-hold
Ambrose
My examination is on the transportation and logistics chains.
Items are transported between better places in various stages
inside a supply chain. The transportation largy affects both
responsiveness and proficiency. Quicker transportation permits
a supply chain to be more responsive yet diminishes its
proficiency inside a supply chain (Chopra and Meindle, 2007,
p.53). Transportation has a noteworthy effect, since it controls
the speed of reaction and answer as expressed in Newton's third
law of each activity there is constantly contradicted an
equivalent response. A case of Amazon is an organization that
offers items on the web and uses UPS or FedEx, which is a
transportation organization that conveys items to clients. This is
a case of transportation inside a supply chain. In logistic today
composed article for Rosenau transportation increases ongoing
perceivability to clients. This article about Rosenau discovered
answer for help enhance dispatch, steering and client
administration to give ongoing perceivability to its clients, and
lessening working expenses by making more stops in less miles.
They additionally centered around enhancing the data it gives to
its clients on conveyance, pickup status, at same time rectifying
the proficiency and efficiency of dispatchers and costumer

5. benefit reps. Quickly it will execute a propelled course
advancement answer for decrease the miles driven, and fuel
utilized and hence lessen the bearer's ecological effect.
(Rosenau Transport Gains Real-Time, 2009)
As per, Sreenivas and Srinivas, because of the pattern of
nationalization and globalization in late decades, logistics has
progressed enormously since the 1950s and is as yet developing
in different zones. Logistics has enhanced ventures by
streamlining creation and appropriation processes in view of
new administration procedures that upgrade proficiency and
limit intensity of endeavors (Sreenivas and Srinivas).
All organizations trying to expand their organizations to
contribute in propelling the development of offers and
additionally enhance the techniques to incorporate all clients in
different topographical locales, both by the high populace
development or direct. Notwithstanding, globalization has
changed everything so the organizations paid to spend more
cash on transportation to diminish an opportunity to guarantee
the conveyance of items to the consumer obviously, other than
consistence with new government controls. A factor that has
made these organizations to enhance execution is the innovation
data, transportation, and logistics arrangements. They have
added to the activation of the supply of organizations to
empower them to acquire merchandise in a matter of seconds
and in addition the privilege of access to clients; likewise, the
ideal place at the opportune time alongside it is likely that you
will get a deal and conveyance while diminishing expenses and
improve its administrations to maintain a strategic distance
from postponements and fines. All organizations working here
and for worldwide projects with logistics, which incorporates
transport and logistics works just on the execution of requests
from origin to conveyance of this position to pick up

6. perceivability at home and abroad for the supply chain and in
addition bring down expenses and enhance client benefit. That
every one of these segments to guarantee the nature of the
application must inspect the accompanying potential outcomes:
Transportation arranging, transportation obtainment, course
arranging, transportation administration, little bundle delivery,
and worldwide exchange logistics (infor).