Aberdeen Group Report

CSCO View on Optimization: A Prescriptive Model for Global Trade

Published October 2015

  • Instituting a Periodic Strategic Prescriptive Sourcing Planning Process

  • Using knowledge and analytics to re-engineer company-wide sourcing, purchasing, trade/transport and fulfillment, as well as supply chain networks

  • Improving core processes and leverage landed cost tracking across trade and transport events

  • Leveraging dynamic optimization tools to synchronize collaborative execution 

  • Establishing or renewing the corporate focus

Research indicates that a typical international shipment is more than twice as costly as a domestic one. Out of the 88% of companies that handle international shipments, only about 35% of top performers can segment their trade/transport rates and costs.

This Aberdeen Group report examines how top performing companies are relying heavily on automation to deliver savings in global trade and provides a 5-step prescriptive global trade roadmap that is key to automating and fostering the move from big data collection to supply chain intelligence, including:

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