First National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy: Part 2 - The supply chain

The Australian Transport and Infrastructure Council recently released the first National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy (Freight Strategy), with goals and targets set out to 2024.

In the second of our four-part series taking a close look at the Freight Strategy's four critical action areas we look at the topic of 'enabling improved supply chain efficiency'.

The desired outcomes for this action are:

• decreased transaction costs and other barriers to moving freight seamlessly along supply chains
• an appropriately-skilled freight workforce-now and in the future
• technologies to improve freight outcomes
• building community acceptance of freight

This action puts the focus on supply chains themselves and recognises that the Freight Strategy must focus on the whole of supply chain approach to planning and not just look at separate aspects in isolation. This is perhaps the greatest challenge of the strategy overall given the somewhat intangible nature of