This statistic gives the leading transformations in the supply chain that third-party service providers had to consider in the past two to three years, according to respondents of a global logistics survey conducted between spring and summer of 2016. Some 41 percent of 3PL providers identified global expansion as one of the transformation they considered in the last two to three years.
Transformations in the supply chain in the past two to three years, according to 3PLs
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Logistics and supply chain executives and 3PLs executives
Method of interview
Online survey
Supplementary notes
Data is based on the answers from logistics and supply chain executives in North America (65 percent), Europe (16 percent), Asia Pacific (11 percent), Africa (three percent), Australia (two percent), South America (two percent) and the Caribbean (one percent).
The survey was sent to shippers, as well as 3PL and 4PL providers.
About 21 percent of respondents were from the food and beverages industry, 17 percent from the automotive industry, 16 percent of respondents were from manufacturing, 15 percent were retailers and consumer product companies, eight percent were from the telecommunications, technology, internet and electronics industry, five percent from the utilities, energy and extraction industry, four percent were health care and pharmaceutical companies and 14 percent from other industries.
The source did not specify the age of the respondents.
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Capgemini, & PennState Smeal, & Penske Logistics. (October 6, 2016). Transformations in the supply chain in the past two to three years, according to 3PLs [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 04, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/674688/trnsformation-in-the-supply-chain-3pl/
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