Transport Management : Foreign Trade and Transport Law
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Transport Management : Foreign Trade and Transport Law Course
Introduction:
In today's challenging times, foreign trade offers opportunities to expand your market. This course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to ensure timely and hassle-free transportation of your products to and from customers and suppliers. You will learn how to safeguard your company's investment and effectively navigate interactions with banks, freight forwarders, customs brokers, and foreign customers. Additionally, you will gain insights into utilizing the necessary documents to optimize transportation costs and ensure the timely execution of orders. Moreover, the course highlights the significance of efficient control and administration of operations and transport equipment, which can yield substantial benefits despite being frequently overlooked.
Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Discover the latest foreign trade guidelines and regulations
- Get freight forwarders and bankers to work together to solve your logistics problems
- Identify and understand key performance indicators
- Best in class practices
- Maximize the services of general and bonded warehouses
- Avoid excessive duties by using foreign trade zones wherever and whenever possible
- Avoid the pitfalls of improper documentation
Who Should Attend?
Foreign trade managers, traffic managers, shipping department personnel, international marketing managers, customer service staff, controllers, purchasing managers, and directors of procurement or logistics.
Course Outlines:
- The Role of the Transport in logistics and supply chain
- Objectives, roles, and responsibilities
- Definitions and uses of transport
- Checklist to undertake an initial analysis of operations
- Transport modes and methods speed, cost and reliability variables choosing transport modes
- Checklists on advantages/disadvantages of alternative modes
- Understand the Fundamental Knowledge Areas of International
- Trade
- Give an overview of the risks inherent to the foreign trade field
- Explain the importance of being detail-oriented and of complying with foreign trade regulations
- Evaluate how trends in third-party logistics impact your decisions with regard to how you run your import/export operations
- List & explain the Primary Documents Required to Export and Import Goods
- List & explain the factors used to determine duties and taxes on your goods
- Explain the importance of understanding and controlling the terms of sale Incoterms
- Set Performance Standards for Your Forwarder(s)
- Control import & export costs by using consolidators
- Use technology to gain a competitive advantage in global trade
- Road freight transport: legislation
- Identifying the typical costs involved
- Checklists on vehicle productivity, vehicle costs, and fuel economy
- Service level analysis
- Operator licensing
- Getting costs under control by targeting and measurement
- Checklist on customer service sampling
Case Studies: Practical case studies to cover the whole topics and strengthen the meanings.