Aberdeen Group

DHL’s Global Forwarding business unit prepares for significant growth of its two key value added services, while importers and exporters increasingly seek partners with end-to-end technology solutions to reduce customs compliance risks.

Individuals who can offer solid experience in business consulting, analysis, and operations have abundant employment options - as will those who can effectively manage these unique teams.

This report is about a different approach to transportation management by Best-In-Class companies, their views of the world, how they make decisions and prioritize them and the processes and technologies that they see as vital to success.

As supply chains become more complex and the number of overseas suppliers expand, Global Trade Management has assumed critical importance. How are the leaders managing supplier relationships, data integration, and compliance challenges in this increasingly tough global arena? A new Chief Supply Chain Officer study from the Aberdeen Group provides some answers.

The latest Aberdeen research survey on the Big Data dilemma conducted in May 2012 indicates that only 16% of companies are confident in their ability to manage the size, speed and complexity of their active business data.

Many companies have switched operations to low cost suppliers—only to find that higher than expected transportation expenses outweighed the benefits. In fact, the logistics costs associated with operating a global supply chain can be 6 to 11 percent of revenue, roughly three to five times more than a domestic supply network.

As a transaction-oriented system, it seems only natural that ERP would have a major impact on the day-to-day activities of finance executives. This Analyst Insight examines the challenges facing finance executives today, and the ways in which ERP is helping them to overcome these challenges.

Todd Snelgrove, Global Manager, Value SKF Group, presentation at Aberdeen's The Chief Procurement Officer Summit (2010)

Aberdeen benchmarked the supply chain software investment and roadmap strategies of over 130 Consumer Industry companies to identify the abilities of supply chain applications in managing risk and ability to change and adapt business processes over time.

This report focuses on gaining visibility into critical elements across the end-to-end logistics network for improving cost and service. But before a company can reduce inventory or landed cost, it needs visibility into them. Only then can it apply tools to agilely adapt to the information it collects.