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Inbound Transportation Management: The Convergence of Planning, Optimization and Dynamic Execution
Aberdeen Group, April 2011, Pages: 14
Aberdeen surveyed 181 transportation professionals for a benchmark report in the July 2010 Aberdeen study, “International Transportation: Optimize Cost and Service in a Global Market”, exploring the pressures they are facing, and what plans they have for the coming months. As highlighted in that study, transportation management is growing in both importance and scale. From that group of executives, and recent interviews with leading companies this document focuses on one specific segment: top Inbound Users or those companies that currently control over 74% of their inbound transportation.
How are these 38 companies (representing 20% of the sample) coping with present conditions? What capabilities do they have? What are the technologies they rely on to ensure efficient operations, and provide value to their customers?
Sector Definition
This document is focused on the top 20% of inbound companies, a total of 38 companies out of 181 firms from the international transportation study conducted in July of 2010.
Both the top 20% of inbound companies and all other companies have virtually equal percentages by organization type:
- 42% Manufacturer/Supplier
- 28% Distributor/Wholesaler, Retailer
- 18% Carrier, freight forwarder, 3PL
- 9% Broker, trading partner
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