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Monday, February 20, 2012

     Last week, SAP launched its first consumer app, Recalls Plus.       Recalls Plus addresses the often cumbersome process of tracking consumer goods recalls via a new engagement system with share options and social networking. It also allows consumers to track recalls on individual products, product categories, and food allergens on mobiles.    While doing this, SAP brings this information to consumers directly, bypassing all manufacturers a...

Thursday, February 16, 2012

     CargoWise, a technology provider for logistics service companies, has announced a new deal with Lasso Logistics to implement its hosted ediEnterprise service.    Lasso, which operates supply chain and product services across Australia and China, said it chose CargoWise to improve efficiency in its international operations.    Lasso’s move away from legacy systems and to a technology partner that can provide software growth is part of a growing trend...

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

   Leavitt Partners and Park City Group have paired to create a joint solution to improve supply chain visibility for food and drug safety.    The partnership will leverage Park City’s product "synchronization" technology that maintains inventories, tracks product movement, and is used to settle financial transactions among buyers.    Leavitt Partners, a health care and food safety consulting firm, said the firms will start with a database of seller and b...

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

     Kewill, a provider of global trade and logistics services and a Gold-level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced it has achieved Oracle Validated Integration of Kewill Flagship with the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.    Kewill Flagship provides an enterprise parcel shipping service for Oracle’s E-Business Suite users and the validated integration allows for the system to give easier implementations, lower costs, and improved ease of use.    The validated...

Friday, February 10, 2012

     Cloud supply chain platform provider GT Nexus has hired Jason Zintak as executive vice president of global sales.    Zintak is responsible for setting the sales strategy and expanding field operations. He also joins the GT Nexus executive team, which directs overall company strategy, operations, and business development.    Recently he led global sales and marketing for JDA Software, and also headed sales for HCL-Axon Global, the largest standalone SAP consultancy...

Friday, February 10, 2012

     Provista, a Texas-based supply chain improvement company, has launched Provista Pro, an inventory management tool for its medical industry customers.    Provista, which has 70,000 sites in health care, education, hospitality and corporate markets in the United States, said its tool provides data across the entire supply chain, will ensure the best price available for supplies, can coordinate prices among multiple customer locations, will reduce the amount of money invested ...

Friday, February 10, 2012

     Impatex Computer Systems, a U.K.-based provider of customs processing software, is changing its name to Impatex Freight Software.    The company said this reflects its main areas of developing, supplying and supporting customs and freight forwarding software, and it has not provided computer hardware for more than 10 years.    Impatex currently provides two products: ICE and NetFreight.    ICE, Integrated Customs for Europe, is a customs processing solut...

Thursday, February 09, 2012

     SAP has announced two new services to deliver its HANA analytics platform to small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs).    SAP’s HANA has been extended to power its new Business One application and the new Edge edition of HANA, allowing SMEs to see real-time data and analytics based on individual requirements. The platform is a data management software on SAP partner hardware that powers a wide range of analytics based on this data.    For the Business One appli...

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

   Kurt Salmon, a global management consulting firm, has sold its GoalPost software business unit to Knighted, a New York-based developer of supply chain software.    GoalPost is designed to support distribution center, call center, and retail store labor management programs.    Jack Horst, partner at Kurt Salmon, said GoalPost will help Knighted with overall management of supply chain costs, services, and productivity.    Craig Wilensky, Knighted's execu...

Friday, February 03, 2012

     Acsis has released the latest line of its Acsis ProducTrak, a set of data collection and task management software that can be integrated with ERP systems from SAP, Oracle, J.D. Edwards, and others.    Acsis aims the new software at bringing real-time connectivity to every point in the supply chain by supplying the infrastructure to manage data collection points to where they are gathered, namely the shop floor and warehouse.    Acsis said it targeted this area bec...

Thursday, February 02, 2012

     JDA Software reported a record fourth quarter revenue of $174.2 million, a percent increase from its $168.8 million reported in Q4, 2010.    This beat out analyst views of $172.8 million and was above the company’s guidance revised on Jan. 12 with a top revenue of $173 million.    JDA said its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) rose 7 percent to a record $51.8 million, compared to $48.5 million at the end of fourth quarter 201...

Thursday, February 02, 2012

     IBM has completed its acquisition of Emptoris.    IBM said Emptoris’ offerings will bring more intelligence to its supply chain operations through its Smarter Commerce platform by automating vendor selection, negotiation, management and compliance. IBM’s purchase of Emptoris will also expand its cloud-based analytics and supply chain management services. About 725 Emptoris employees will join the IBM software group.

Thursday, February 02, 2012

     RedPrairie, an Atlanta-based supply chain and retail technology provider, announced that its Merchandise Management and Direct Commerce applications are now available as on-demand through the cloud.    RedPrairie is adding cloud versions of these applications as part of an overall cloud platform strategy, touting its ability to save money and provide more efficient systems for small and mid-sized businesses.    The company said these cloud applications will help c...

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

     CargoWise, a logistics information technology provider, entered an agreement with the Bulgarian Unimasters Logistics to implement its ediEnterprise.    Unimasters is expanding its logistics business to Central and Eastern Europe, having established operations in Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary, and the company said this partnership with CargoWise was one means to speed up that growth.    "We are expanding in Eastern Europe, where information inf...

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

   Demand Management, a provider of supply chain management software, has expanded its overseas presence by opening a new office in Istanbul, Turkey.    Demand Management focuses on tools for manufacturers and distributors and offers the Demand Solutions supply chain planning suite for forecast management, demand planning, collaborative forecasting and inventory planning.    With the new office in Turkey, Demand Management now has 47 offices globally.

Monday, January 23, 2012

   One Network Enterprises, a cloud supply chain service company in Texas, has announced plans for a new strategic alliance with Arrow Electronics, a Colorado-based global provider of services and products for users of electronic components and enterprise computing applications.    The pairing will focus on delivering manufacturers with a comprehensive supply chain management tool and will have a focus on improving service levels and lowering costs.    One Network said ...

Thursday, January 19, 2012

     Orium, which operates an e-fulfillment and multilingual contact center, has launched a new Website dedicated to helping U.S. e-commerce and multichannel retailers expand their Internet sales to European markets.     In particular, the new site helps facilitate exchanges with clients by streamlining inventory access, e-fulfillment, and shipping options.    The company said the biggest barriers it has found for U.S. retailers successfully expanding to EU market...

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

     JDA Software has ended the 2011 fiscal year with numbers mostly in line with its original guidance for full-year 2011, which is good news as software sales declined and as the firm wrapped up legal disputes with Oracle over patent infringements.    JDA has not yet finalized its financial results for the fourth quarter but was prompted to put out preliminary financial data because of the drop in its software license sales. Overall, its unaudited revenue for&nb...

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

     CombineNet, an e-sourcing technology provider, has announced it ended 2011 with strong revenue growth, software usage, and customers.    The company said it had a 71 percent growth in customers in 2011 compared to 2010, which is the company’s best growth rate to date. CombineNet said it now has its largest-ever customer base.    CombineNet’s new Chief Executive Officer Rich Wilson said that "Rapid adoption in 2011 of our self-service e-sourcing product s...

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

     Amber Road, formerly Management Dynamics, is building on its global trade management (GTM) offerings with the launch of TradeWizards.com, a free cloud-based portal for global trade operations.    The Website is a combination of nine research tools built around obtaining data related to cost and compliance risks around importing and exporting goods.    The modules available in the suite cover restricted party screening against 40 lists; product classification cover...

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

     Descartes Systems Group has unveiled a series of extensions to its Logistics Flow Control application.    The new modules give retailers better means to coordinate with supplier-managed shipments and commercial and logistics documentation for import duty filings, the company said.    The Logistics Flow Control is a multi-party Microsoft-based cloud service that unifies the interface and interactions of retailers, suppliers, carriers, and brokers, and covers a...

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

     Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) has launched its StellarTrak, a cloud-based service providing cargo security, monitoring and asset tracking to its LoadStar customers.    John Meredith, HPH's group managing director, said “Cargo theft, spoilage, and smuggling continue to be major concerns for our customers and all supply chain participants.”    StellarTrak provides LoadStar (HPH’s cargo security division) customers with real-time information about cargo and...

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

     Phoenix-based Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas has developed a set of apps to manage supply chain activity for use on Apple’s iOS devices.    The new POURS app, whose name comes from Avent’s replenishment system, allows for Web-based inventory management including monitoring and taking action on notifications. Customers can use the app to monitor, approve, and track orders with no need to use the POURS Website.    "Avnet's POURS app gives customers full access...

Friday, January 13, 2012

   Arigo, a Massachusetts-based provider of trade management technology, and Tompkins International, a supply chain consulting and implementation firm, have formed a partnership to provide a unified global trade management (GTM) application.    “True global trade management, today, requires new operation strategies and a full integration of organizations, processes, and technologies throughout the end-to-end supply chain,” said Bill Ren, chief executive officer of Arigo. “We...

Thursday, January 12, 2012

     eBay has launched a new shipping service in collaboration with Singapore Post (SingPost) and the U. S. Postal Service in the hopes to improve both delivery and tracking of lightweight goods moving between the United States and Singapore.    The service, named ePac, is eBay’s first postal service partnership in Southeast Asia and its third partnership globally. The service was introduced to boost cross-border trade which eBay calls its fastest-growing segment.   &n...

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

   Florida’s Global eProcure (GEP) has announced its acquisition of Enporion, a Tampa-based supply chain management firm.    GEP has been a provider of sourcing and procurement services since 1999 and has expanded its business to include a SaaS (software as a service)-based source-to-pay platform. Enporion’s operations cover sourcing and e-procurement applications with many customers in the utilities and manufacturing industries.    GEP said it will brand Enporion as a GEP C...

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

   A new transportation management Website has popped up, promising to help shippers, distribution centers, manufacturers, and other companies get better rates from a list of more than 28,000 available carriers.    The RateMyShipment.com site comes from TranZcenter, a logistics and supply chain management services provider, and its head of operations Milton Collier. The network of multimodal carriers covers North America and includes modes like less-than-truckload (LTL), truckloa...

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

     IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Massachusetts-based Emptoris, a cloud and on-premise analytics software provider with a focus on supply chain management.    Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.    Emptoris has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, India, Brazil and China, and counts more than 350 customers in 75 countries. Its acquisition is the latest in a series of additions to IBM’s “Smarter Com...

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

     Global trade and logistics management services provider TridentGLOBAL has entered an alliance with Bolero International to develop and market a range of integrated export documentation services for shippers.    The two companies will work together globally, incorporating Trident’s export documentation with a Bolero ePresentation and allowing the content to be managed through Bolero’s Presentation Dashboard.    The offering will allow an exporter to process trade d...

Monday, October 03, 2011

   The Paris-based consulting and outsourcing company Capgemini has partnered with Oakland-based supply chain software-as-a-service developer GT Nexus, the companies said last week.    The agreement calls on the companies to jointly market what they call “supply chain orchestration.” Essentially, the two companies will collaboratively sell supply chain applications across North America and Europe, enabled by GT Nexus’ technology platform.    “This is a unique combination of ...

Thursday, September 22, 2011

  AIM, a trade association for automatic identification and mobility industry, this week announced the availability of Han Xin bar code for the Chinese market.   Han Xin code is a two-dimensional matrix symbology made up of an array of square modules arranged in an overall square pattern. Unique finder patterns assist in easy location of its position, size and inclination. There are 84 versions of Han Xin code symbols. Module dimension is user-specified to enable production of two-dim...

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

   CDC Software Corp., a provider of enterprise software applications and services, will make available CDC TradeBeam i-Supply 7.6, the latest version of its cloud collaborative inventory management application.    The company said CDC TradeBeam i-Supply 7.6 is delivered on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that enables manufactures to give their suppliers real-time visibility into forecasts and inventory status, such as what is on hand, has been used, ordered, shipped and recei...

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

   DHL Global Forwarding has bought out Lufthansa Cargo’s half of LifeConEx, the joint venture started in 2005 to provide life sciences companies a cold-chain transportation manager with stringent controls for temperature-sensitive products.    The logistics company’s value proposition is that it integrates the operating standards of the airline, ground handling, packing, technology and freight forwarder service providers to ensure there are no breakdowns in the chain of custody. It ...

Friday, September 16, 2011

  A group of industry associations urged the Senate in a letter Thursday to promptly confirm Eric L. Hirschhorn as the Commerce Department’s undersecretary for export administration. Hirschhorn    Hirschhorn has been serving in this role through a recess appointment since March 2010, even though his nomination has twice been approved unanimously by the Senate Banking Committee.    “In that time, he has established an impressive record of accomplishment, taking a leading role in ...

Friday, September 16, 2011

   Descartes Systems Group had second quarter net profit of $2.6 million, 30 percent more than the $2 million earned in the same period a year earlier.    Revenue was $28.8 million in the quarter ending July 31, up 14 percent from $25.2 million in the second quarter last year.    The Waterloo, Ontario-based logistics platform company acquired Telargo in June, a provider of telematics services that help customers monitor and manage trucks and other mobile assets and help fle...

Thursday, September 15, 2011

   UPS Wednesday said it will launch on Oct. 3 a new product called UPS My Choice, which is designed to make it easier for receivers of parcels to avoid missed deliveries.    The company said out of the 5 million or so homes it visits each day, it leaves 100,000 to 200,000 missed delivery notices.    So the company said the product will not only eliminate a major frustration for people who miss deliveries, but also reduce its costs. There will also be fees charged for the s...

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

   A.P. Moller's freight forwarding and supply chain management subsidiary Damco has begun providing customers with an online calculation of carbon dioxide emissions.    The new information is available online at myDamco, the browser-based customer interface with Damco, and will enable customers to track carbon dioxide emissions for all products shipped by ocean and air.    “Our customers are faced with increasing requirements for more efficient and sustainable supply chain...