Question

A) The assignment of shipments to lanes B) The turn-by-turn vehicle routing decisions C) The consolidation of parcel shipments (smal D) The selection of carriers and rates for shipping the weight) into less-than-truckload [LTL) shipments loads E) The sequence of pickup and delivery WHAT DECISIONS CAN BE OPTIMIZED BY THE OPTIMIZATION TOOL IN THE DEMO?

The Demo does not answer question, and is quite vague. Seeing if someone will know outright.

Answer 1

Various decisions can be optimized mentioned below:

Just by negotiation of reduced rates with carriers is not adequate for complete transportation management optimization program. Thus transporters are resorting to:

Managing Shipments: The Demo is related to decision of selecting modes for reducing cost.

• less-than-truckload (LTL)
• full truckload (TL)
• small package or parcel modes

They also pursue suitable strategies to optimize freight:

Straight Pooling: orders are shipped via LTL to end customers.

Others are Shipment Aggregation, Consolidation, Continuous Moves and cross-dock/Pooling

Fleet optimization: It includes decisions of route designing, maintenance of vehicles and exchange of real time information.

Source: https://cerasis.com/transportation-management-optimization/