CPM Advisory for Samskip

Cpmview helped Samskip in its journey for a new CPM solution.

About Samskip

Samskip is a global logistics company offering transport and related services by land, sea, rail and air with a particular focus on cost efficient, reliable and environmentally friendly transport.

With an annual turnover of over EUR 800 million, Samskip is now one of the larger European transport companies, with offices in more than 24 countries in Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australia, employing approximately 1450 people around the world.

Samskip is headquartered in the Netherlands but was originally founded in Iceland in 1990. Since then, Samskip has produced consistent organic growth complemented by strategic acquisitions.

Samskip’s transportation and logistics activities focus mainly on the following sectors: European multimodal transport, North Atlantic integrated logistics, worldwide temperature controlled & ambient cargo forwarding and logistics, and finally European breakbulk and project cargo movements.

Samskip is modernizing key financial systems, processes and definitions to realize a modern and futureproof reporting landscape. As part of this modernization process, Samskip searched for a new CPM solution to have the required insight into the Financial and Operational performance.

CPM Advisory

Cpmview advised Samskip in their search for a new CPM solution using the cpmview project methodology for vendor selection and acted as their internal and external business advisor.

Key steps in the selection process were in which cpmview advised Samskip:

• Gather requirements from Samskips’ key stakeholders
• Product demonstrations from CPM vendors
• Define Samskip specific use cases
• Setup of Request for Proposal and contact vendors
• Evaluation of RFP responses

Samskip has chosen for OneStream Software as their unified CPM platform for the future.