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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

Required Skills

Required knowledge includes 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 waste muda as used in competitive manufacturinglean manufacturing 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 costbenefit calculation ASNZS ISO Environmental Management Standards Required skills include negotiating with relevant stakeholders calculating manipulating and interpreting numerical data including establishing series means correlations and rates of change analysing and ranking options consulting with technical and operative staff preparing recommendations

Evidence Required

Overview of assessment	A person who demonstrates competency in this unit must be able to conduct a sustainability related transport audit including calculation of transport related emissions and preparation of recommendations for improved resource use
Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit	Assessors must be satisfied that the candidate can competently and consistently apply the skills covered in this unit of competency in new and different situations and contexts Critical aspects of assessment and evidence include mapping of transport use to part of value chain to be analysed applying concept of utility to transport ranking of transport by cost and utility developing transport improvement strategies
Context of and specific resources for assessment	This unit of competency is to be assessed in the workplace or a simulated workplace environment Assessment should emphasise a workplace context and procedures found in the candidates workplace This unit of competency may be assessed with other relevant units addressing sustainability at the enterprise level or other units requiring the exercise of the skills and knowledge covered by this unit The competencies covered by this unit would be demonstrated by an individual working alone or as part of a team
Method of assessment	In all cases practical assessment should be supported by questions to assess underpinning knowledge and those aspects of competency which are difficult to assess directly Where applicable reasonable adjustment must be made to work environments and training situations to accommodate ethnicity age gender demographics and disability The language literacy and numeracy demands of assessment should not be greater than those required to undertake the unit of competency in a worklike environment
Guidance information for assessment

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Range Statement

Transport	Transport includes: transport used in a value chain whether by vehicle, ship/boat, train, aeroplane, conveyor or other means
Financial costs	Financial costs include: purchase, lease, and hire costs and maintenance costs where these are included in a lease or hire agreement
Utility	Utility is: the economic usefulness of the transport from a customer’s perspective i.e. does the transport add value from a customer perspective (e.g. transporting from plant to consumer increases the utility from the customer’s perspective whereas moving between one process and another does not)
Transport arrangements	Transport arrangements include: departure, arrival and waiting times, and choice of equipment, fuel and mode
Inefficient transport	Inefficient transport is: transport which uses more time, fuel or larger capacity of transport than is needed or causes more stock to be held than is necessary, such as: 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
Essential transport	Essential transport is: the minimum transport requirements needed to transport goods as defined by the customer
Muda cost	Muda cost includes: transport that does not meet specification required, or that does not increase utility
Unnecessary transport	Unnecessary transport is: transport which does not increase utility and therefore would be classified as muda or waste in a lean manufacturing analysis

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