ICG Commerce Senior Director of Global Logistics Recognized By Industry Publication as Top Thought Leader
Thursday March 23, 8:00 am ET
Paul Svindland Honored as 'Pro to Know' By Supply & Demand Chain Executive, Making it the Fourth Consecutive Year an ICG Commerce Executive Has Been Recognized
PHILADELPHIA, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading procurement services provider ICG Commerce today announced that Paul Svindland, senior director of ICG Commerce's Global Logistics Solutions Group, has been recognized as a "2006 Provider Pro to Know" by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine. As further testament to the procurement services provider's strong and deep team of experts, Svindland represents the fourth different ICG Commerce executive to be included on the prestigious list over the past four years.
After evaluating hundreds of executives, Supply & Demand Chain Executive's senior writers and editors recognized elite individuals from software and service providers who exhibit the deepest domain knowledge, tightest customer focus and most innovative thinking within the supply chain arena. Through a dedication to continued improvement in supply chain process and technology, the "Pros to Know" are leading the way in helping companies gain significant value from their supply chain management initiatives.
As head of ICG Commerce's Global Logistics Solutions Group, Svindland has been instrumental in educating leading companies on how to transform their logistics operations to optimize performance and drive significant reductions in transportation costs. Svindland and his team have helped ICG Commerce customers source more than $3 billion in logistics spent over the last three years. Some of their key sourcing successes to date include helping a leading aluminum manufacturer obtain 20 percent cost savings on truckload transportation spend; reducing a leading pharmaceutical company's overall LTL costs by 22 percent; enabling a specialty retail shop to save 33 percent on its small parcel expenses; and generating eight percent cost savings on ocean freight expenditures for a leading manufacturing company.
Under Svindland's leadership, ICG Commerce has enhanced its logistics offering to provide a complete suite of logistics management services to include not only strategic sourcing but also the implementation of new carriers, transaction automation, and ongoing management of the transportation buying category. Through this unique combination of proven processes and experience, ICG Commerce is able to drive value across an organization's entire logistics network.
"I am very proud to be named a Supply & Demand Chain Executive 'Pro to Know,'" Svindland said. "I view this recognition as a tribute to the breadth and depth of expertise that exists throughout our entire company."
For the complete listing of Supply & Demand Chain Executive's 2006 "Pros to Know" and accompanying editorial, please see the February/March issue of the publication in print or online at sdcexec.com .
About ICG Commerce, Inc.
ICG Commerce ( icgcommerce.com ) is a leading Procurement Services Provider exclusively focused on helping companies buy more effectively and efficiently in order to reduce costs significantly and continuously. The company offers an unmatched combination of process and category expertise, market insights and benchmarks and a world-class operational Buying Center to deliver Sourcing and Procurement Outsourcing Services. ICG Commerce Inc., a privately held company founded in 1992, is a member of Internet Capital Group's (Nasdaq: ICGE - News) network of partner companies. For four consecutive years, ICG Commerce has been as a Forbes Best of the Web: B2B honoree, and the company also has had multiple executives recognized in Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine's annual "Pros to Know" listing. |
