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Orchestro Develops Retail Tracking App for the iPad

November 8, 2013

Orchestro

Orchestro has made its retail product-monitoring application available on the iPad.

Consumer Goods Supply Chains: The Next Five Years

November 7, 2013

SupplyChainBrain

Brenda Hambleton, chief marketing and strategy officer with ES3, details the biggest challenges that consumer-goods producers will be facing in their supply chains over the next five years.

Supply Chain Service Int'l Takes VMI Classes on the Road

November 6, 2013

Supply Chain Service International

Supply Chain Service International (SCSI) is taking its new course in vendor-management inventory (VMI) on the road.

Too Many SKUs? How Clorox Avoids Supply-Chain Chaos

November 4, 2013

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Life in the laundry room used to be so simple.

Most Businesses' Sales, Operations Planning Processes Still Spreadsheet-based or Rely on ERP, Survey Finds

November 1, 2013

Logility

Recent research shows 80 percent of the consumer goods companies surveyed have a formal sales and operations planning (S&OP) process in place, yet more than half rely on spreadsheets while another 26 percent stated they either utilize a homegrown solution or their ERP system.

POOL4TOOL Forms EDI Unit for Supplier Connections

October 31, 2013

POOL4TOOL

POOL4TOOL has created a subsidiary to connect customers with their suppliers through electronic data interchange (EDI). The unit is known as POOL4TOOL EDI powered by GDP (Global Digit Post).

SKU Proliferation: Is There a Cure for the Disease?

October 28, 2013

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Retail marketers love complexity. The more variations of a product they can sell, the happier they are. How else can they command all that shelf real estate in big-box stores? How else can they promote innovation? And how else can they drive their supply-chain managers crazy?

Global Supply-Chain Planning: It's Getting Tougher

October 24, 2013

SupplyChainBrain

Glen Margolis, chief executive officer of Steelwedge, describes the planning challenges that companies are facing as they cope with increasingly complex demand and supply networks.

Software AG Launches webMethods 9.5; Tool for Portfolio Management

October 23, 2013

Software AG

Software AG has launched a new version of its webMethods platform. Version 9.5 combines cloud, mobile and social technologies with automated business processes.