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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Identify all transport used
   • Define boundaries of value chain or part of value chain to be analysed.
   • Identify all transport to a site.
   • Identify all transport within a site.
   • Identify all transport from a site.
2. Analyse transport requirements
   • Identify current specifications for required transport.
   • Identify transport that is not essential to product or process as defined from the perspective of a customer.
   • Identify transport arrangements used which are inefficient.
   • Determine transport required to increase utility.
3. Determine total cost of transport
   • Calculate direct financial cost of transport.
   • Determine emissions from transport.
   • Calculate working capital costs of transport.
   • Calculate cost impost of transport which does not meet requirements.
   • Calculate costs of transport which does not increase utility.
4. Develop strategies for reducing the use of the resource/material
   • Rank transport by total costs.
   • Rank unnecessary transport by total costs.
   • Develop strategies to reduce total transport costs.
5. Prepare a recommendation for a resource use reduction strategy
   • Consult with key stakeholders.
   • Identify strategies required to meet regulatory or similar requirements.
   • Rank strategies by benefit/cost ratio.
   • Short-list preferred transport improvement strategies.
   • Prepare recommendations for improving transport.

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.
Transport used in a value chain includes one or more of	vehicle ship/boat train aeroplane conveyor or other means.
Financial costs include one or more of	purchase lease hire costs maintenance costs.
Inefficient transport includes one or more of	transport which uses more time, fuel or larger capacity of transport than is needed or causes more stock to be held than is necessary not travelling by the most direct route taking more time than necessary not correctly matching load to capacity of transport vehicle not correctly matching delivery and pick up times to production requirements.

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include the ability, across one or more organisations/value chains, to:

map transport use to part of value chain to be analysed

apply concept of utility to transport

rank transport by cost and utility

develop transport improvement strategies

prepare recommendations in line with stakeholder requirements.

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Knowledge Evidence

Must provide evidence that demonstrates sufficient knowledge to interact with relevant personnel and be able to conduct a transport audit including knowledge of:

value chain and transport within the value chain

modes of transport used within and external to site

alternative modes of transport which could achieve same outcomes

requirements of transport to meet required outcomes (transport specifications)

muda (waste) as used in competitive systems and practices

utility as a concept and as applied to transport

transport costs and emissions

working capital, including inventory costs of transport

methods of calculation of costs

strategies for reducing transport and transport costs

cost-benefit calculation.

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