-- 52% of participants are most focused on improving their supply chain's transparency/visibility in 2007. -- Multi-tier inventory management is earmarked as the area with the most opportunity for improvement and business impact. -- 53% of participants are actively using or investigating Supply Chain Finance techniques to lower end-to-end costs. -- 41% of participants are currently using or evaluating Software as a Service (on-demand applications) for supply chain management.Participants walked away with actionable supply chain recommendations from executive best-in-class presenters from: IBM Integrated Supply Chain, Target Corporation, Boeing, Nike, Under Armour, Agilent Technologies, Wrigley, Anritsu, Williams-Sonoma, Boston Scientific, Raytheon, Supply Chain Executive Advisors, MIT, and Nypro Inc. During the proceedings, Aberdeen presented five companies with Supply Chain Management Achievement Awards. The award winners were as follows:
-- Renault received the Executive Stewardship Award for achieving performance heights due to the direct involvement and leadership of executive management. -- Panasonic received the Process Excellence Award for demonstrating process ingenuity, agility, flexibility, and scalability in addressing changing business requirements. -- Boeing received the Business Evolution Award for managing information flow across internal functional practices to achieve measurable business growth. -- Proctor & Gamble received the Innovation in Technology Award for maximizing technology solutions to solve pressing supply chain issues in order to positively impact company performance. -- Agilent Technologies accepted the Performance Excellence Award for harnessing the performance impact of supply chain activities and mastering methodologies for financial, operational, and customer-centric performance excellence.The Summit's overall focus was on how companies are transforming their physical and financial supply chains in the face of globalization, with discussion on topics such as: transitioning to a centralized supply chain organization; improving supply chain visibility; new inventory management approaches; breakthroughs in supply chain finance; and supply chain compliance and risk management strategies. "We were pleased to be the catalyst bringing together the leading supply chain, financial, and other key executives to share experiences of successful supply chain transformation," said Beth Enslow, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Research at Aberdeen. Summit sponsors included: HSBC, TradeBeam, Infor, PowerTrack, Archstone Consulting, GT Nexus, Red Prairie, Loftware, Voxware, and Harte-Hanks. For additional information on the summit, visit: http://www.aberdeen.com/events/live/GSC07/ About Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company Aberdeen is a leading provider of fact-based research and market intelligence that delivers demonstrable results. Having benchmarked more than 30,000 companies in the past two years, Aberdeen is uniquely positioned to educate users to action: driving market awareness, creating demand, enabling sales, and delivering meaningful return-on-investment analysis. As the trusted advisor to the global technology markets, corporations turn to AberdeenTM for insights that drive decisions. For additional information, visit Aberdeen http://www.aberdeen.com or call (617) 723-7890, or to learn more about Harte-Hanks, call (800) 456-9748 or go to http://www.harte-hanks.com.
Contact Information: Media Contact: Beth Enslow Aberdeen Harte-Hanks 519-883-1430 Beth.enslow@aberdeen.com