Welcome back to Business English Pod for the second lesson in our series on English for logistics. In this lesson, we’re going to focus on routing and capacity.

Look at the labels of the items on your desk or in your home and you’ll appreciate just how critical international trade is. It’s easy to take it all for granted and forget that the entire system depends on a very complex supply chain. Until, of course, politics gets in the way, and suddenly the whole world is thinking about logistics!

Getting products and materials from point A to point B involves a lot of moving parts and a lot of important decisions. Manufacturers and retailers’ business models depend on optimizing logistics. And central to that work is figuring out routing, or the particular pathway of shipments, as well as storage and capacity.

Talking about routing requires special vocabulary related to transportation. You will also need to talk about how cargo is handled and how it is stored, or warehoused. And in discussing these matters, you’ll find it useful to keep a broad perspective and be able to reject options that aren’t quite right.

In today’s dialog, we’ll rejoin a conversation between a production manager named Cam and a logistics manager named Anna. Cam’s company, Boston Vintage, manufactures clothing in Eastern Europe for distribution in several parts of the world. Boston Vintage is working with Anna’s company, Global Freight Express, to support their complex logistics needs.

Listening Questions

1. Why does Cam reject the regular “carrier loop” as an option for transporting their goods?
2. What are some of the terms used to discuss shipping containers and capacity?
3. What possible problems does Anna mention related to “warehousing?”

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Welcome back to Business English Pod for today’s lesson on analyzing trends during a presentation in English.

Business is a game of numbers. And whether you’re in marketing, finance, sales, or operations, you have different metrics that tell you whether you’re successful. Read any business report, and you’ll see these metrics presented in charts and graphs.

But charts and graphs aren’t enough on their own. Sure, you can use them to present a snapshot of the current state. And you can show how different numbers have gone up or down relative to other numbers. But so what? The numbers are only useful if we can analyze them, learn from them, and make better decisions with them.

When you analyze trends in a presentation, it’s a good idea to clearly state your approach from the beginning. Then you can do things like describe the rate of change and speculate about future developments. You might also make specific predictions about what will happen and raise people’s awareness of possible future trends.

In today’s dialog, we’ll rejoin a presentation at a mobile company called Ambient. A director named Pat has been presenting results for sales and market share. Now Pat is digging deeper and analyzing the company’s performance on one key metric: revenue per unit, or RPU.

Listening Questions

1. What is Pat going to compare in his approach to analyzing trends?
2. What does Pat predict about his company’s “RPU” in the future?
3. What possible future trend does Pat warn about at the end of the dialog?

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