Ocean Freight & Maritime
2008 Tech Trends: Freight & Logistics
The transportation industry is in the midst of a major transformation due to the rapidly changing demands of the global marketplace. Consolidation, globalization and ever increasing service level requirements are demanding that companies become more agile and work smarter in order to be competitive in the New Year. As companies begin to create 2008 plans, EDS highlights its top technology trends affecting the freight and logistics industry.
Steering a Course For Success
The Challenge
Your clients rely on you to get their cargo there on time. To accomplish this, you must tackle a variety of challenges. High fuel costs. Insufficient port infrastructure. A maze of government regulations. Increased security measures. Coordination with customers and suppliers. The need to reduce costs.
Information technology can be used to address these issues. Unfortunately, many ocean shipping companies are running aging legacy IT systems that are expensive to operate, do not meet the standards of reliability required in today's competitive environment, and do not provide the flexibility needed by the industry.
The Answer
HP services are designed ensure that your IT systems provide you with the flexibility you need, while ensuring that your systems are reliable, secure and cost-effective. We help you apply information technology to generate bottom-line results. Among the services provided by HP:
- Business Process Outsourcing Services (BPO)
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Services
- Finance and Administration Services
- HR Services
- Document Processing Services
- Procurement Services
- Application Support Services
- Applications Development Services
- Applications Modernization Services For Airlines
- Enterprise Applications
- Application Management Services
- Integration and SOA
- Infrastructure Outsourcing Services
- Workplace (Desktop) Services
- Data Center Modernization Services
- Networking Services
- Security and Privacy Services
The Results
With 9,000 experienced professionals serving the transportation industry, HP is unmatched when it comes to understanding and addressing your critical business and technology issues. You get solid solutions that make a tangible impact on your business.
- See our complete list of services
- Download the Freight & Logistics Supply Chain Business Issue Overview PDF, 1.2M
Ocean Freight & Maritime Industry Contact Information
Freight & Logistics Expert Greg Mathy
Greg Mathy has more than 17 years professional experience in the transportation, technology, and consulting industries. His area of expertise includes strategic consulting and enterprise wide IT solutions for the global mass transit, rail, trucking, ocean and logistics markets. Mathy is ready to assist freight, logistics and rail clients meet their business objectives.
Managing Director Americas for Freight & Logistics and Transportation Industry Delivery Operations Mike Higgins
Mike Higgins is Managing Director of Freight & Logistics for HP. In this role, Higgins is responsible for leading the freight & logistics group by developing market leading products and solutions through HP sales, product, and operations experts that deliver differentiation for our customer's to distinguish themselves and dominate their markets. In addition, Mike leads the Transportation Delivery Operations team, which focuses on Executive Operations, Communications, EPO/BO, Product Development and Delivery.
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