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Is Your Supply Chain Prepared for Its Digital Future?

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Do you know where your company’s supply chain readiness is heading in it’s AI Ecosystem?
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Welcome To Your AI Ecosystems Readiness Assessment

Digitalization provides a fast-track to create more value, from less resources. And delivering higher value is itself a fast-track to greater revenues.

When your business processes are fully optimized, you’ll be able to maximize your profitability, in virtually any market conditions.

For the purposes of this study, we are observing 28 critical success factors which can directly influence your company’s current state of readiness to plan and complete your global supply chain transportation & logistics digital transformation.

These factors have been observed over the course of 30 years, involving digital transformations of a diverse set of global supply chain participants, including manufacturers/shippers (1pls), carriers (2pls), freight forwarders (3pls), wholesale traders and sourcing specialists (4pls & 5pls).

You should expect to receive your personalized AI Ecosystems Readiness Assessment Report within 1-2 business days of completing this assessment.

1. Which technology generation are your business software appilcations living in?

1960s-70s (mainframes / terminal emulators) 1980-90s (client server / vpns) 2000-10's (web access / on-prem software) 2020's + (mobile, tablet, laptop, fully responsive all devices)

2. Our primary line of business is

Retail Service Wholesale & Distribution Consumer Products Group LTL Transport FTL Transport Ocean Transport Rail Transport Air Transport Finished Goods Manufacturing Components and Parts Manufacturing Raw Materials Manufacturing

3. We primarily interact with customers, suppliers and / or partners:

Internationally, across continents Domestically Internationally, within our continent

4. We primarily operate in or serve the following markets:

AMER + APAC AMER EMEA + APAC APAC AMER + EMEA EMEA AMER + EMEA + APAC

5. How do you price shipment transportation

Self serve quoting portal Search rate sheets manually Pricing is fully automated Search internal rating system Other (please write your response)

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6. How fast is your typical supply/transport request processed

3 days or less, but not real time Real time 3 days or more Within an hour, but not real time

7. How many quotes do you lose due to delays in response time?

> 25% We win most of the quotes we want to win Up to 10% 10-25%

8. A majority of our customers and partners are most likely to participate in an AI Ecosystems data sharing agreement

> 1 year A majority of our customers and partners already share data with us for AI purposes This quarter It’s highly unlikely that our customers and partners will collaborate with us via AI This year

9. Thinking about all the different types of shipments you participate in, which method best describes how you track shipments

We log into one external carrier / forwarder website to obtain status We log into internal system(s) to obtain status Our system automatically alerts me of changing shipment status We log into multiple external carrier / forwarder websites to obtain status

10. Customer Service and claims processing

Is owned by the customer service department, which has automated access to the information they need in real time Is owned by the sales department, which has automated access to the information they need in real time Is completely self service, our customers can answer their own account and shipment status questions through our portal Is owned by the customer service department, which must manually research status across multiple systems and web sites Is owned by the sales department, which must manually research status across multiple systems and web sites

11. An unanticipated variance between Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivables is reconciled

Within 3 days or less Real Time Not Sure 3 days or more

12. Multi-leg shipment routing is determined

Manually without the aid of route or load planning optimization tools Not Sure Manually with the aid of route or load planning optimization tools Automatically

13. My shipments are mostly

Managed by our team through load boards & market places Based on contracts established through a bid process Offered to me through networks Based on spot quotes

14. My organization would most likely support data sharing with customers / partners that

is prepared ad-hoc is a transactional record of the business we've explored / conducted together is an anonymized record of the total business we've explored / conducted together is a summarized record of the business we've explored / conducted together

15. We monitor the profitability of each shipment

Within 3 days or more In real time Not sure Within 3 days or less, but not real time

16. A majority of our customers and partners are most likely to implement policies to govern AI Ecosystems involvement

It’s highly unlikely that our customers and partners will collaborate with us via AI This year A majority of our customers and partners have already implemented AI policies >1 year This quarter

17. Our AI Ecosystem evaluation would be led by

Not yet sure Our sales, marketing, operations or finance champion Our Innovation champion Others (please list)

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18. Our last major software implementation

Was so long ago I don't remember, did not impact our sales operations, or pre-dates my employment Is happening right now Happened 1-5 years ago Happened > 5 years ago

19. With respect to change, our team

Handles it differently based upon circumstances Embraces change Prefers status quo (resists) Seeks change

20. Our procurement process

Can vary depending on the nature of the transaction Is typically managed internally Is fully automated Is typically managed by a neutral third party Not sure

21. With respect to strategic goals

We plan regularly, primarily driven by internal factors We plan regularly, primarily driven by market conditions We react to market conditions Not sure

22. We plan to bring AI Ecosystems to our customers

This quarter >1 year Our customers and partners already collaborate with us via AI This year

23. We participate in more than 1,000 shipments

Every quarter Every day Every year Every month

24. Our cyber security policies are

Documented but not actively enforced Enforced by a dedicated compliance department Not Sure Enforced by a third party

25. We are permitted to share data with customers / partners via

File attachments We are not permitted to share any data externally Verbally, but not written API integrations

26. Our growth strategy is primarily

Organic Marketing driven Through acquisitions Aimed at a merger

27. Over the next year our highest priority among these choices is

Stability Growth

28. A majority of our customers and partners are most likely to implement a primary AI platform

This quarter It’s highly unlikely that our customers and partners will collaborate with us via AI This year > 1 year A majority of our customers and partners have already implemented a primary AI platform

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Is Your Supply Chain Prepared for Its Digital Future?

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