American Shipper’s Global Transportation Management Benchmark Study: Climbing the Visibility Sophistication Ladder, found that successful shippers and their service partners are investing in supply chain visibility to deal with their growing and complex supply chains. In fact, 66% of shippers and 75% of forwarders were able to quantify an ROI from their visibility investment!

The idea of industry segmentation argues that companies need to execute separate strategies for commodities and newer, innovative goods – the demand structures certainly differ. Supply chain segmentation is no different, and SCM World delves into this critical, but underutilized, business process in their brand new report, “Supply Chain Segmentation: The Key to Future Profitability.”

As cross-border trade becomes more and more vital, companies have begun to consider alternate sourcing and trade options and how these will impact their total costing analysis. Many have been drawn to Free Trade Zones and reshoring processes, in order to reap the benefits of duty and tariff reduction opportunities.

American Shipper’s newest report, Global Trade Management Landscape: Strategies Beyond Compliance, provides an in-depth analysis of the trends, challenges and complexities that are reshaping global trade.