Does Your Company Have an Intelligent Supply Chain?
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Third-Party Logistics 2006
This study provides insights into customers’ use of 3PL services across several key industries and regions worldwide. Considering that total global 3PL revenues in 2005 were approximately US$370 billion, outsourced logistics services continue to represent a significant portion of overall logistics and supply chain expenditures.
Download (876 KB)Companies have spent a lot of time understanding how they move goods through the supply chain, but now they need to understand how to optimally organize the integrated supply chain by using the information sitting within it.
Capgemini Consulting is moving towards an intelligent supply chain — an all encompassing view that provides a very high level of visibility, enabling you to make proactive rather than reactive decisions. The need to reduce costs remains, but there is a growing realization that unlocking value within the supply chain is crucial to delivering strategy — be that buying goods more intelligently, producing goods more efficiently or collaborating with suppliers more effectively. Companies need to take a total cost view of the supply chain and develop mutually rewarding relationships with their suppliers, customers and the ecosystem partners that enable to create an agile and intelligent supply chain.
Who We Are
- Blending consulting and industry experience, our 4.900 global professionals don’t just advise our clients on optimal supply chain strategies, we realize the required transformation together.
- We have developed industry tailored solutions to help clients achieve an intelligent supply chain:
- Our global network of innovation teams and centers of excellence produce on-going thought leadership materials such as the annual 3PL Study, the annual Report on Trends and Issues in Logistics and Transportation, points of view, and white papers.
- Our track record of delivering supply chain success speaks for itself.