Improve your competitive performance using practical management tools including revenue management and pricing
Identify your customers’ changing needs to adjust your business for immediate results
Maintain optimum levels of customer service without increasing your costs
Analyze changes within the cargo industry and its stakeholders
Stay current with the latest business and technological trends
Describe and use pricing strategies
Determine an advertising budget and plan, selecting advertising media channels
Target Audience
This course will mainly benefit to purchasing managers, senior buyers, project managers, civil engineers, construction managers, contractors, sub-contractors, site engineers, senior management, and government agencies, architects, construction professionals, and anyone responsible for purchasing at a senior level who seeks to enhance their skills further.
Course Outline
Day 1 – The Cargo Industry: An Overview
The cargo industry and its stakeholders
Marketing and sales for cargo
Pricing and revenue management
Day 2 – The Cargo Industry & Marketing Perspective
Cargo marketing analysts and managers
Sales managers
Cargo network analysts and managers
Revenue Management analysts and managers
Day 3 – Pricing Strategies of Cargo Industry
Basic cargo rating principles and currency regulations: conversion rates, rounding off procedures and construction rates
Combining rates and charges, mixed consignments, declaration of the goods and Air Waybill completion
Identifying the needs of the shipper and the consignee for developing a reliable and affordable transportation system
Applying traditional and digital advertising techniques with an airfreight industry focus
Day 4 – Marketing Landscape of Cargo Value Chain
Conducting marketing audits of your own organization, the competition and your customers
Trade patterns & the macroeconomic environment, modal split, the air cargo value chain
Day 5 – Brand Value in Cargo Industry
Efficient market segmentation and SWOT analysis
Understanding brand value
Advantages and disadvantages of different distribution channels – understanding the role of intermediaries