White Paper: Survey: Parcel Shipping & Global Trade Management

For the third year Kewill has conducted a benchmarking survey of logistics professionals and compiled the results into a whitepaper. The survey identifies current practices, captures significant trends and establishes operational performance benchmarks for parcel shipping, import compliance and export compliance. By capturing significant trends, it also places the research findings into an overall context and provides recommended best practices for parcel shipping, importing, exporting and global trade management.

For organizations operating a global supply chain the role of parcel shipping and global trade management remains a challenge and requires continuous attention to ensure compliance and desired customer service levels are achieved. The combination of fluctuating fuel costs, slower global economic activity, and continuous changes to compliance regulations all create demands on companies to improve their operational and financial performance.

We asked the survey participants how the current global financial crisis was impacting their business operations, most (36 percent) stated that it was too early to tell and a similar number (34 percent) were already seeing a limited negative effect on their business. 17 percent were experiencing a significant negative impact and only 9 percent had felt no impact. A lucky 4 percent thought the recent economic activity was providing a positive impact to their business.