ICG Commerce Senior Director Of Global Logistics Recognized By Industry Publication As Top Thought Leader
Paul Svindland Honored As 'Pro to Know' By Supply And Demand Chain Executive Making It The Fourth Consectutive Year An ICG Commerce Executive Is Recognized
PHILADELPHIA - Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 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 spend 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 www.sdcexec.com.
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About ICG Commerce, Inc.
ICG Commerce (www.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) 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.
Contacts:
Kristen Knouft
ICG Commerce
(484) 690-5159
kknouft@icgcommerce.com
Ali Hazlinger
Ruder-Finn
(312) 329-3979
hazlingera@ruderfinn.com
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