International Trade

• Identify the country of the raw material/s supply; manufacturing and marketplace.
• Research for any free trade agreements among these countries
• Discuss how the logistics service provider supports the manufacturer at the upstream of the supply chain; what should the HS Code be;
• Discuss the benefits and type of logistics services the manufacturer can engage to supply to the marketplace and what HS code will be used.
• Discuss how the government can help the manufacturer trade with ease in a foreign land.

Specific to your selected product

• Discuss the criteria that affect the choice of transport mode and carriers at the up and downstream.
• What are the drivers that decide the cost and how to improve the cost?
• Discuss how to protect and preserve the quality of the product in the warehouse e.g. facilities design.
• Discuss the packaging and the changes in packaging design to achieve efficiency and effectiveness along the supply chain
• What are the transport and warehouse performance measurements? Why are they being measured?- Identify the technology used in warehouse, transport, manufacturing, and distribution to store data and transfer information along the supply chain.
• Discuss the knowledge gained from this information and how is the knowledge being deployed to help business. Identify the software that enables data to be transformed into information.