Take a close look at any supply chain - even a single entity within it - and you're likely to uncover a hodgepodge of disciplines, each with its own method for forecasting demand, and each convinced of its superiority over everyone else's. So it only makes sense that companies would dream of coming up with a single forecast upon which all departments could agree.

Webgistix Corp., a vendor of software and services for electronic-commerce order fulfillment, has introduced Webgistix SmartShip.