Capgemini
With 112,000 people in 40 countries, Capgemini is one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Group reported 2010 global revenues of EUR 8.7 billion.
Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business and technology solutions that fit their needs and drive the results they want. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business Experience™, and draws on Rightshore®, its worldwide delivery model.
Capgemini Consulting is the Global Strategy and Transformation Consulting brand of the Capgemini Group, specializing in advising and supporting organizations in transforming
their business, from the development of innovative strategy through to execution, with a consistent focus on sustainable results. Capgemini Consulting proposes to leading companies and governments a fresh approach which uses innovative methods, technology and the talents of over 3,600 consultants worldwide.
For more information: www.capgemini.com/services/consulting/
Penn State University
Penn State is designated as the sole land grant institution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The University’s main campus is located in State College, Pennsylvania.
Penn State’s Smeal College of Business is one of the largest business schools in the United States and is home to the Supply Chain & Information Systems (SC&IS) academic department and the Center for Supply Chain Research (CSCR). With more than 30 faculty members and over 600 students, SC&IS is one of the largest and most respected academic concentrations of supply chain education and research in the world. SC&IS offers supply chain programs for every educational level, including undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate degrees, in addition to a very popular online, 30-credit professional master’s degree program in supply chain management. The supply chain educational portfolio also includes open enrollment, custom, and certificate programs developed by Smeal’s Penn State Executive Programs and CSCR, which helps to integrate Smeal into the broader business community. Along with executive education, CSCR focuses its efforts in research, benchmarking, and corporate sponsorship. CSCR corporate sponsors direct the Center’s research initiatives by identifying relevant supply chain issues that their organizations are experiencing in today’s business environment. This process also helps to encourage Penn State researchers to advance the state of scholarship in the supply chain management field.
Penn State’s Smeal College of Business has the No. 1 undergraduate and graduate programs in supply chain management, according to the most current report from Gartner.
For more information, please visit www.smeal.psu.edu/scis and www.smeal.psu.edu/cscr.
The Panalpina Group
The Panalpina Group is one of the world’s leading providers of supply chain solutions, combining intercontinental Air and Ocean Freight with comprehensive Value-Added
Logistics Services and Supply Chain Services. Thanks to its in-depth industry know-how and customized IT systems, Panalpina provides globally integrated door-to-door solutions tailored to its customers’ supply chain management needs. The Panalpina Group operates a global network with some 500 branches in more than 80 countries. In a further 80 countries, it cooperates closely with partner companies. Panalpina employs approximately 15,000 people worldwide.
Panalpina has extensive experience with customers in many key industries. With dedicated experts in key global markets, Panalpina has the people, products, skills and capabilities to meet the demanding needs of its global customers.
Panalpina delivers reliable Supply Chain Solutions that provide value to our customers – every time. No matter what the size, exact business and location is – we are always driven by qualitative, safety-related and environmental principles that best serve our customers’ and thus our own long-term interest.
For more information please visit www.panalpina.com.
Heidrick & Struggles
Heidrick & Struggles, the leadership advisory firm providing senior-level executive search and leadership consulting services, has one of the industry’s leading, dedicated Transportation and Logistics practices round the globe. We have a demonstrable track record of delivery in each niche of the segment with truly global coverage. Clients include Integrators, Freight Forwarders, 3PL Providers, Ocean Carriers, NVOCCs, Airlines, Rail Operators, Port Operators, Terminal Operators, and Airport Operators. Our relationships go beyond cargo transportation and logistics companies themselves as further convergence emerges in the industry – we hold key relationships with PE Firms, venture capitalists, infrastructure funds, deal makers (both buy and sell side), investment bankers, management consultants and the academic community. We know the talent and with our team dispersed all over the world, we are uniquely equipped to serve an industry that is being redefined locally, regionally and globally.
For more information, please visit www.heidrick.com.
eyefortransport
Established in 1998, eyefortransport has become one of the leading providers of business intelligence, independent research, news and executive level events for the supply chain & logistics industries. eyefortransport has two primary focuses:
- To provide executive networking opportunities in the supply chain & logistics industries via the more than 15 events we annually organize and host in North America, Europe and Asia and online via the tens of thousands of users of www.eft.com. The events are designed to complement and enhance the business connections available through our online network, and bring together the industry elite. Regularly attended by CEOs and senior management from the transport and logistics industry and Heads of Supply Chain of major companies, the events focus on current developments and latest trends, and are enhanced by high-level, exclusive networking opportunities.
- To deliver industry education through dozens of industry reports, surveys, newsletters, webinars and senior-level presentations at leading events.
For the list of current research, news and conferences we produce please visit www.eft.com.