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FIG. 4 LOGISTICS SOLUTIONS OFFERED FIG. 5 SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS OFFERED
Optimization 660.7= 67% Supplier/Vendor Management 440.4= 44%
Transportation/TMS 640.6= 65% Modeling/Forecasting/Predictive Analytics 390.6= 40%
Routing & Scheduling 560.9= 57% Supply Chain Control Tower 390.6= 40%
Load Planning 540.2= 54% Customer Relationship Management 230.6= 24%
Wireless/Mobile Technology 490.3= 49% Sales & Operations Planning 230.6= 24%
Inventory Management 470.9= 48% Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 230.6= 24%
Auditing/Claims/Freight Payment 470.2= 47%
Warehousing/WMS 430.8= 44% Demand Management 220.2= 22%
Procurement 420.4= 42% Global Trade Management 200.8= 21%
Reverse Logistics 350.4= 35% Security (risk management, compliance, etc.) 190.4= 19%
Rate Bid Management 330.3= 33% Distribution Resource Planning (DRP) 190.4= 19%
Yard Management 270.1= 27% Product Lifecycle Management 140.6= 15%
Labor Management 180.1= 18% Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) 110.8= 12%
RFID 170.4= 17%

(Figure 4) are often more transactional, The logistics technology sector transactional or even free (Figure 7).
as shippers focus on squeezing every continues to soar into the cloud, with Lower costs and easy implementation
penny out of each shipment and 53 percent of providers exclusively enable even small operations to stand
process. Supply chain solutions offering web/cloud/SaaS/hosted toe-to-toe with the biggest corporate
(Figure 5) cover strategic, enterprise- solutions, just 2 percent offering giants. n
74+53+49+13
level processes, such as global trade or only local solutions, and 45 percent
product lifecycle management. offering both (Figure 6). This is a FIG. 7 COST BASIS: How do users pay for
drastic shift from a time not so long
2+45+53+L cloud’s ability to provide data security. Transactional (subscription) 74% n
technology solutions?
FIG. 6 PLATFORM: How do IT providers deliver
ago when customers demanded locally
their solutions?
hosted solutions and mistrusted the
In the several decades that IL has
conducted this survey, one trend is
clear: Customers continue to demand
Local Only
2%
cost-effective solutions, and the logistics
technology sector continues to deliver.
Both Local & Web
45%
Once upon a time, only huge operations
could afford the cost and interruption
Web/Cloud/SaaS/Hosted
53%
involved with implementing a best-in-
Seat/User
53% n
class logistics technology solution. But
today, providers offer solutions that are
Free
13% n
PERSPECTIVES METHODOLOGY System 49% n
very year, Inbound Logistics conducts an Our Logistics IT Perspectives provides a
extensive survey of the logistics technology robust overview of the trends that are impacting
E market to explore how solutions providers logistics technology, and how service providers
are adapting to change, and pushing the technology are responding.
needle in new directions.
Our outreach effort comprises two parts. First,
IL solicits questionnaires from nearly 300 logistics
IT providers detailing the solutions they offer and
their areas of expertise . We also ask solutions
providers to supplement this empirical data with
contextual insight about business during the past
year, relationships with customers, and emerging
logistics technology trends.

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