The CIO as Supply Chain Manager
There will come a day, soon, when even large companies will have very little technology in-house to manage. CIOs can prepare by adopting a supply-chain mentality and approach to IT.
View ArticleIBM Buys Emptoris for Contract Managment, Supply Software
The move adds to IBM's family of commerce-related applcations
View ArticleIBM Tracks Pork Chops From Pig to Plate
IBM is deploying technology that allows meat suppliers to track a single pig all the way from farm animal to pork chop.
View ArticleSEC Investigating Past JDA's Past Fiscal Years, Stock Falls
The company is pledging to cooperate fully with the SEC
View ArticleHow to Find Weak Links in Your Supply Chain
Big companies like WellPoint have caught on to the importance of evaluating the disaster-recovery plans of even their smallest suppliers. Does your business-continuity plan cover supply-chain risk? It...
View ArticleTechnology for the Greater Good
A mother in Tanzania walks for three days with a sick child on her hip, only to arrive at a rural clinic whose inventory of malaria medicine is depleted.
View ArticleMojix Sees Virtualization As Way to Cut RFID Cost for Inventory Management
Mojix is offering the controller for its wide-area RFID tag reader as a virtual appliance
View ArticleCloud Computing Pushes Vendors to Seek New Roles in IT Value Chain
Cloud adoption means that companies are increasingly signing pay-as-you-go SLAs and renting servers. This means traditional software and hardware vendors must dramatically reconsider their business...
View ArticleIBM, Epicor Could Be Among Potential JDA Acquirers
The supply-chain software vendor is reportedly putting itself up for sale
View ArticleRedprairie Buying JDA Software for $1.9 Billion
The merger will result in a supply-chain vendor with more than $1 billion in revenue
View ArticleShell Rolls Out 'Demand Sensing' Technology
Shell is to deploy new "demand sensing" technology across its worldwide lubricants business.
View ArticleSAP Adds to Supply-chain Tech with Smartops Acquisition
SAP plans to tie SmartOps' technology to HANA
View ArticleFAQ on Global Supply-Chain Security Standard to Prevent IT Tampering,...
Whether you're buying or selling hardware and software, or acting as systems integrator, the new supply-chain security standard put forward by the Open Group in April could end up having a huge impact...
View ArticleKellogg's Improves Supply Chain with Upgraded Scanning System
Breakfast cereal and snack company Kellogg's is improving its U.K. supply chain with a new warehouse scanning system.
View ArticleHow Cloud Technology Can Transform Supply Chain Performance
The international supply chain is here to stay. That means working with multiple partners, many of whom have hundreds of partners themselves and some of whom lack the expertise or funding to connect to...
View ArticleHow Outdated Tech in the Supply Chain Threatens Your Safety
Headlines scream about tainted food, drug shortages and untraceable guns. Part of the problem is that inadequate technologies and data silos make it tough to trace problems back to their source.
View ArticleWhen Customer Service Goes From Bad to Worse
The root causes of the worst customer service and support problems usually stem from bad decisions and sloppy actions in upstream departments. These poor choices make it all too easy for...
View ArticleHow CPQ Systems Boost Sales Automation and CRM
Configure, price and quote systems are designed to speed up and automate the sales cycle--all in the name of improving customer relationship management. CPQ systems can be complex, but the firms who...
View ArticleERP Systems Provide Visibility Into Food Safety
As food production gets increasingly complicated, food manufacturers often struggle to track products from raw materials to packaged goods -- and, in the event of a recall, from packaged goods to raw...
View ArticleOnline Lingerie Seller Claims JDA Software Didn't Provide Even the Bare...
Mergers and acquisitions can have an impact on deals based on product road maps, analyst says
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