PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS ON FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION IN FURNITURE INDUSTRY, A CASE STUDY IN BANTUL, YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA
Abstract: The Supply Chain
Management is a new philosophy encouraging internal and external integration
which encompass all the aspects, from the supplier until down to the customers.
Transportation plays a major role in achieving efficiency and effectiveness
because the role of transportation in the Supply Chain is as the intermediary
help to distribute the physical goods from one entity to another entity. For this reason, the objective of this
research is to analyse and measure the effectiveness and efficiency of inbound
and outbound logistics in the furniture industry in Bantul, Yogyakarta.
Firstly, the author will try to draw the supply chain mapping in order to gain
more understanding about the entities in the supply chain. Secondly, performance of the transportation
modes that will be used to move the furniture will be assessed through
questionnaire. Thirdly, the author will try to analyse the response if rail
transportation is proposed as an alternative transportation mode to move the
goods. Lastly, conclusion and recommendation regarding the issue will be
derived as implied in the result from data analysis.
Author: C. H. Soekamto, S.
Priyanto
Journal Code: jptsipilgg120057
