Integrating supply chain planning and execution is vital to today's businesses, but 80 percent of the data that most companies need to achieve this integration lies outside their four walls. Mark Cosway, vice president of industry sales at GT Nexus, explains a new approach to solving this problem.

CaroTrans International, a global non-vessel operating common carrier and ocean freight consolidator, has added a direct, weekly less-than-containerload (LCL) export service from San Francisco to Japan.

Laura Dionne, director of worldwide operations, and J.P. Swanson, systems architect, at TriQuint Semiconductor, describe how the installation of RapidResponse from Kinaxis is helping the company transform operations planning and improve inventory control.

Transportation managers are expected to respond to inquiries regardless of where they are or what they are doing when the question is asked. In order to respond to this flow of questions, managers must be able to access detailed shipment information that traditionally have not been available through mobile technology. This, in turn, requires systems developers to design and implement mobile information platforms that can be easily accessed from the road.