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Transportation Management

Study the words in your active vocabulary and try to memorize them, ex.1 p.117.

1. Counting the hours.
    To get everything done for the show, the team will have to budget their time well. Do you know these general terms about time? Fill in the vowels to complete the words.
a) The show is an  _ nn _ _ l  event. (годовой)
b) We estimate costs _n   _ dv_nc_. (заранее)
c) The sch_d_l_ is pretty tight, because you need to consider tomorrow’s meeting. (программа)
d) We have established a t_m_t_bl_  for the project stages. (график работы)
e) One year, our display was not finished  _n  t_me. (своевременно)
f) We’d missed the d_ _dl_n_  for ordering palm tress, so they arrived a week later. (срок)
g) The show was pr_v_ _ _sly held in the football stadium. (раньше)
h) S_bs_qu_ntly, the show was moved to the conference-centre grounds. (в дальнейшем)
i) In the l_ng t_rm, the planners hope to establish a permanent display in the city hall. (в отдаленном будущем)

2.    Match the general and business English meanings of the following words.

Word                                                   General English                                              Business English
a) chair _ _ _ _ _                                1. a command                                                A. work accomplishments
b) minutes _ _ _ _                              2. a piece of furniture                                     B. the record of a meeting
c) performance __                              3. units of time                                               C. the general feelings 
     among colleagues
d) order _ _ _ _ __                             4. the atmosphere & weather                        D. the local office of a large company
e) environment __                              5. a part of a tree                                           E. work place surroundings
f) climate _ _ _ __                              6. nature                                                        F. a formal request for products
g) branch _ _ _ __                             7. a show or concert                                      G. the person running a meeting

3.    Some things go well for the team and others don’t. Business language contains a mix of positive and negative terms. For each positive word, choose the correct prefix and write the negative form.

-im          mis-    ir-          il-        dis-            un-

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Translate into Russian.

To learn the words go to: 
https://quizlet.com/ru/753213939/english-for-logistics-unit-4-flash-cards/

5.    Try to make as many word combinations as possible joining the words from both columns.
1. transportation                         a) savings
2. substantial                              b) schedule
3. production                               c) company
4. distribution                              d) channel
5. materials                                 e) costs
6. logistics                                   f) shipments
7. total                                         g) services
8. key                                          h) rate

6. Find the antonyms in columns B and C to the words in column A. Translate into Russian.

A                                                     B                                                 C
1. to purchase                            1. irrelevant                                1. unique object
2. to trace                                    2. simplicity                               2. to take away
3. substantial                              3. to sell                                     3. to enliven
4. complexity                              4. to stay unchanged                  4. evidence
5. to vary                                     5. to excite                                 5. to be stable  
6. multitude                                 6. to lose                                    6. unimportant
7. to provide                                 7. to deprive                               7. fail to find
8. to exhaust                                 8. singleton                               8. to vend

7 a) Write down the Russian equivalents.
1 purchased goods
2 to account for
3 low value 
4 bulky
5 purchase expenditures
6 target savings
7 freight bill

b) Translate into English. Find these words in the text “Organization for  Transportation Decisions”  
1 добывать
2 производить
3 строительные материалы
4 транспортные расходы/ издержки

Read and translate part 1 of the text “Organization for Transportation Decisions”  
 
Organization for transportation decisions

Purchased goods must be transported from the point they are grown, mined, or manufactured to the place needed. The purchase of transportation services demands a high degree of skill and knowledge, if the costs of movement are to be minimized while at the same time meeting service needs. Due to the complexity of the transportation industry, the multitude of rules and regulations, and the significantly larger number of alternatives available as a result of deregulation, getting the best 
value for an organization’s transportation money involves much more than simply getting the best transportation rate.

Depending on the type of goods being moved, transportation may account for as much as 40 percent of the total cost of the item, particularly if it is relatively low value and bulky, such as construction materials. But in the case of very high value, low weight and bulk electronics goods, transport costs may be less than 1 percent of total purchase costs. It is not unusual in many firms to find that an average of 10 percent of their purchase expenditures go for incoming transportation costs. While target savings vary from firm to firm, many have found that only a modest effort to manage incoming transportation services more efficiently will result in substantial saving, often from 10 to 15 percent of the freight bill.

8.    Answer the following questions.
1 Where must purchased goods be transported?
2 What does the purchase of transportation services demand? 
3 How can transportation costs vary depending on the type of goods being moved?
4 In what cases are transport costs less than 1 percent of total purchase costs?