New Research Report
Benchmarking Global
Transportation
Management
Strategies and
Practices 2013

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Answering for
Company or Division

Size of Company/Division
By Employee Count
15.40%

8.30%

8.00%
68.30%

Number of Countries
Sourced From

Number of Countries
Sourced From
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200
150
100
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2.20%
17.60%

38.50%

41.70%

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11.00%

12.00%

23.00%

25.30%

28.60%

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Mostly Globally Mostly Regionally Mostly Locally Mostly Mix
Overall Transportation Strategy
Transportation Procurement
Transportation Planning
Insource/Outsource Decisions

33.30%
22.20%
11.10%
30.00%

46.70%
52.20%
43.30%
42.20%

14.40%
18.90%
35.60%
21.10%

5.70%
6.70%
10.00%
6.70%

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15.70%

33.40%
38.90%

37.10%

47.10%

27.80%

Do you have a formal global operating strategy?

What is your operating trend?

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Key Processes Standardized
In Processes of Standardization
Little Standardization

32.40%

23.80%

48.80%

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Yes, Global LCC
Yes, by More
No and No Real Plans

31.00%

Yes, Regionally Focused
No, but Working Toward

13.50%

23.60%

15.70%
10.10%

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Can you plan/optimize full multi-leg, multi-mode move simultaneously?

What is the biggest weakness
In your current TMS?

8.80%
27.50%

36.20%
27.50%

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Global Transportation Process Capabilities

Global Transportation Technology Capabilities

Excellent
Above
Average
Average

13.6%
0.0%
30.5%

44.4%

30.7%
Below
Average
Poor

35.4%

7.3%
9.8%
17.0%

11.1%

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What Percent of Global Freight is Managed by Different Alternatives?
Average
Median
Highest
We Manage Directly
35.30%
20.00%
100.00%
Freight Forwarders/3PLs
49.10%
50.00%
100.00%
Suppliers Manage
14.20%
3.50%
80.00%
Other
1.30%
NA
100.00%

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How Are Shippers Thinking
About Cloud WMS?

28.80%

10.00%

Global Transportation Technology Capabilities

23.80%
38.70%

25.00%
36.20%

37.50%

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16.00%

16.00%

28.00%

40.00%

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4.00%
24.00%
24.00%

48.00%

12.00%
16.00%

40.00%
32.00%

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Excellent
Above
Average
Average
Below
Average
Poor

4.0%

0.0%
8.0%

44.0%
44.0%

12.0%
20.0%

4.0%

52.0%
12.0%

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What Percent of Inbound Freight Do You Control?
We Manage Directly
Suppliers Manage
Not Applicable

Average

Median

Highest

39.30%
36.90%
23.80%

20.00%
50.00%
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100.00%
100.00%
NA

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Mode Comprehensive Functionality
• Flexible Multi-lingual Capabilities

• Currency and Contract Rate Flexibility
• Current and Dynamic Mileage Calculation Capabilities
• Plan and Execute Multi-mode Routes with Event and Exception Consideration
• Connectivity to All Logistics Trading Partners
• Near “Real Time” Visibility of All Freight Movements
• Augment Existing ERP Platforms....Like Sap, Oracle
• Exchange Mission Critical Data with Other Systems And Services (Chb’s, 3PLs,

Freight