This document discusses material handling and transportation. It covers the importance of material handling in scheduling production and reducing costs. The objectives of material handling are to reduce costs, increase speed, improve control and flow of materials, enhance safety, and increase productivity. Principles of material handling include reducing backtracking, mechanization, and shortening movement times. The document also outlines different types of material handling equipment and introduces transportation, describing its functions in product movement and storage and modes such as airways, waterways, pipelines, roadways, and railways.