Criteria for decision-making in transportation logistics function

This paper presents the first phase of a methodology for making transportation decisions in the Supply Chain (SC), in the first part of this article are the importance of transactional costs in transportation and their decision levels. Then interrelationships and dependencies of the criteria in Transportation Logistics Function (TLF). Finally presents design of the Multicriteria Decision Network (MCDN), used to support decision-making by managers of goods and transportation companies for modes or carriers selection in the Supply Chain, together with theirs concepts for to standardize the criteria from the literature review.