While there has been much talk over the past 10 years or so about "collaboration," much of it has been focused on external supply chain collaboration. It seems that many companies neglected to get their own houses in order before looking outside their own supply chains, according to a University of Tennessee report entitled Bending the Chain: The Surprising Challenge of Integrating Purchasing and Logistics.

Kenandy Inc., provider of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) application on the Salesforce1 Platform, has released Kenandy Quote-to-Cash.

Aspen Technology Inc. has released enhancements to version 8.8 of its aspenONE Engineering software.

Exostar has released Partner Information Manager (PIM), a modular application that measures risk across a business’s extended supply chain.