Economical profitability of a company production, in
general, depends on the availability of resources and the delivery and
production costs. To attain this satisfactory profitability, the developed
countries companies conceived an organization called Supply Chain; which
facilitates the various kinds of relations between all the structures which
take part in a given product's production. One finds there many activities, in
particular the transport management, the number of cars on roads management,
the storing, the material handling, the stock control, the provisioning, the
distribution... etc. All these activities are factors of cost which should be
minimized. Among these costs, transport and the activities which depend on
it (storing, handling, stock control, supplying, delivery...) have an
important place.
Thus, support was taken on transport to develop the '' zero
stock '' policy through the ''Just-in-Time'' concept which consists to deliver
the products at the time when the need is really expressed. That supposes not
only a favorable institutional atmosphere, real trust, permanent communication
between supply chain members, but also the existence of infrastructures of
transport in good condition and the non-existence of road harassments.
In fact, by reducing the time of capital turnover for a given
volume of production, an effective system of transport reduces the immobilized
capital volume, and at volume of constant profit, increases the profit rate.
The effectiveness of system of transport is determined by the time of transport
of each dispatch on the one hand, but also by the ensured connections
frequency, their regularity and their reliability which allow reduce stocks
buffers and the immobilized capital which ensure that the production cycle will
not be stopped because of a stock outage.
As regards Ivory Coast, this policy application requires
the involvement of all the authorities because of the many constraints.
Indeed, although the ivorian road network (81 996 km including 7,90 %
surfaced and 92,10 % unsurfaced) seems to be one of bests of Africa, it will
not rest less than its state (63 % of the surfaced network are old of more
than 15 years old and more than 40 % of the ground network is degraded)
presents a state of service too not adapted to the new logistic tendencies in
vogue in developed countries. This situation worsens by the harassments on the
various roads of the country which involve wastes of time and financial
over-costs. However, these tendencies count on much the time. Moreover, the
transport companies sensible being companies that provide services, are still
for majority in informal and have a traditional functioning. One finds
structured companies, artisanal companies and tradespeoples-carriers. Any
situation which can bring a company in competition to get a number of cars on
roads in order to facilitate the carriage of its goods, or else in the
contrary case to leave transport to the hands of the customers. It is the
most obvious report on the transport market in Ivory Coast.
This dark table of the goods carriage landscape in Ivory Coast
could not facilitate the perfect application of logistic technology in vogue in
the developed countries. It deserves a good cleaning having to lead to the
acquisition of the substantial profits generated by the practice of this
technology through the following actions:
?????Development of the areas of raw materials production
through the repairing of surfaced and unsurfaced roads, degraded or destroyed
tracks and works;
????Reduction of the number of the roadblocks;
?? Institution of a certified control (delivery of a control
certificate and truck leading) will have to be considered at the outset of the
freight vehicles, to reduce the reasons being able to be put forward by the
armed forces on the roads;
?? Sensitizing of the armed forces on the commercial and
industrial companies functioning and the dangers to which they expose these
companies and the State (stock outage, waste of time, delivery period not
respected, notoriety in decline, loss of customers, financing problems,
impossibility to pay the employees, the taxes and charges, impossibility for
the State to enter in possession of its due, to pay the civil servants, to
build new roads...);
????Creation of centers to collect the complaints of road
harassments victims contactable by an emergency number (free call);
???? Presence of a distinctive mark on the armed forces
clothes allowing to identify them individually (number, name or first
name...) to dissuade them to practise the abuses of authority, the corrupt
practices and the racket;
?? Installation of special units of control of the road
controllers agents;
?? Taking drastic measures to discourage the armed forces
from worrying the goods carriers (from suspension to striking off);
?? Carriers training to the transport trade with a view to a
modern functioning and the knowledge of their rights and duties;
??? Authorization of transport on own account between various
companies concerned with the same industrial conglomerate, which is not the
case at the present time. To support transport within a conglomerate will
allow effectiveness profits (less trips empty);
?? Implication of the industrialists in the maintenance of
raw materials production areas through the supply chain;
??? Logistic structures popularization (platforms,
warehouses, road stations, etc.) in the road transport of goods in Ivory Coast;
????Externalization of the transport function.
