Drive Synergy Savings by Introducing Collaborative Transportation Synchronization.
As organizations evolve their business models in the coming decade, a new breed of business and technology leaders will emerge to meet the challenges. These leaders will navigate a myriad of converging and disruptive technologies, align new initiatives for both business value and technology feasibility, and identify strategies to leverage existing investments to fund innovation. Consequently, traditional transportation operations also need to evolve.
This Constellation Research, Inc. report focuses on transport synergy, summarizing a significant body of work. This report will help you answer questions about the types of hidden transport synergy present in supply chains as well as the supply chain synergy indicators that identify these synergies.
We first explain three tests you can perform to indicate the possibility of supply chain synergy. Next, we illustrate eight steps through which supply chains can be synchronized to harvest these synergies. These steps are key to implementation of these end-to-end synergy driven supply chain networks in a way that is both scalable and sustainable.
In order to support the assertions made in this best practices research report, two case studies have been provided. Included within these case studies is the application of the transport synergy indicators as well as the eight steps of supply chain synchronization used to effectively capture these synergies.
Wrapping up this transport synergy report is a specific next steps action plan to get your organization started on the road to transport synergy savings.
As cost and carbon reduction pressures continue to mount on transportation management, new sources of synergy and savings must be examined and implemented by forward looking CSCOs. This research report answers two questions: 1.) What types of transport synergy savings opportunities are present in most supply chains? 2.) What methods, technologies and collaborative approaches will be required to tap into these and further enhance the role of the supply chain leader?