The Transportation Manager is a dignitary having power to manage the all activities related to the transport department. There are various roles performed by the transport manager. They are giving the direction to all the transportation activities for the smooth function, development of moving relationship, monitoring the costs of transport, maintaining a good relationship with the brokers and agencies. He has also the calculation skills for the management of all the activities related to mileages, power for the negotiation and bargaining of transport prices. He has all the power and knowledge of managing the logistics industry.

Here, in this article I am going to emphasis on the various points related to the Transport Manager which will definitely help you in the interview regards to it.

1. What is your professional qualification?
Sir, I have a degree in the field of Logistic Management. I have also an experience of few years working in the transport industry.

2. What is the Logistics Management?
It consists of various activities which is helpful in the total management of Inbound and Outbound logistics.

3. What are the main qualities of a Transport Manager?
He must possess the Time management skills, Clerical skills, Writing skills and quality of Critical listening skills and have also the power to take the right decision at right time. He must have good communication.

4. What do you mean by Allocation in inventory management?
It is a demand that is created by a Sales Order or Work Orders next to a specific item.

5. What is Activity Based Costing?
It is a method which helps in the breakdown the costs into particular activities in order to maintenance of accuracy in the distribution of costs in product costing.

6. What are APS, ASN and ASRS?
APS is an Advanced Planning and Scheduling, ASN is Advanced Shipment Notifications and ASRS is Automated Storage a Retrieval Systems.

7. What is Actual Cost?
Actual cost is inventory costing method which is used in the manufacturing environments that consists of the actual machine costs, materials costs, and labor costs .These are accounted along with a particular work order to calculate the cost of the finished item.

8. What is Cantilever Rack?
It is the rack system which is vertically supported by the rear of the rack but not on the front side of the rack. It helps in the storage of various long pieces of materials.

9. What is a Capacity requirement planning?
It is a process for determining the quantity of machine and manual labor resources necessary to assemble production.

10. What do you mean by Carton clamp?
It is a kind of pickup truck accessory that functions like a paper roll clamp having the flat compress surface.

Now, be ready to face the interview of a Transport Manager.