Supply chain-based organizations face intense pressure to improve customer service, lower costs of products and increase business process efficiencies. This Aberdeen Group paper explores the supply chain priorities of more than 200 companies and their top motivations for improving supply chain processes.

Read this paper to learn about the supply chain budgets of your peers and best practices for improving your organization's supply chain processes, including:

• How innovators' technology investment priorities differ from those of their peers
• Why cost cutting is not the primary motivation for supply chain improvement
• How to develop innovation
• Five key technologies to consider adopting based your organization's needs
• Supply chain technology budget plans for 2006