The air cargo industry cannot afford to be complacent. To address the competitive pressures facing air cargo, the industry challenged itself in 2014 to meet an important objective by 2020: seeking to optimize the air cargo supply chain for every commodity type transported by air to provide shippers with greater transparency, reliability and predictability.
Such industry optimization will help to not just protect the value proposition of air cargo, but will enhance it. One goal of supply chain optimization could be the reduction of the average end-to-end shipping time by 48 hours, where the customer so demands.
To meet this goal, air cargo must modernize its processes, improving quality and reliability, and widen the range of services offered. Key factors of success are data integration, process integration and supply chain partnerships based on common and mutually beneficial scenarios.