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Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Take Aim at E-commerce Marketplaces

July 17, 2015

Nilam Ganenthiran, vice president of business development and strategy with Instacart, explains how traditional retailers can work with e-commerce marketplaces -- and compete against them.

JDA Adds Enhancements to Order Promiser for Retail Supply Chains

July 16, 2015

JDA Software Group Inc.

JDA Software Group Inc. has added functionality to JDA Order Promiser, software in support of retail supply chains.

Late to the Party: Healthcare Giants Embrace RFID, With Immediate Results

June 19, 2015

SupplyChainBrain

BJC HealthCare joins with Cardinal Health and Cook Medical in a three-way pilot to apply RFID tags to items at the supplier stage. Will their success goad a technologically backward industry to follow suit, and eliminate billions of dollars of waste from the supply chain?

Synchrono Issues Update of Manufacturing Intelligence Software

June 17, 2015

Synchrono LLC

Synchrono LLC, a provider of manufacturing software, has released version 6.0 of SyncOperations, its manufacturing intelligence system built on Savigent.

HighJump Acquires Nexternal; Teams With Grizella on Carrier Monitoring

June 8, 2015

HighJump Software Inc.

HighJump Software Inc., a vendor of supply-chain management applications, has acquired Nexternal, a cloud-based electronic commerce platform provider.

MercuryGate Launches Multimodal Global Freight Rate Index

June 3, 2015

MercuryGate International Inc.

MercuryGate International Inc., a provider of cloud-based transportation-management system (TMS) software, has launched RateFriend, a freight index providing global rate data for road, air, ocean, rail and intermodal transportation.

Insight Enhances Supply-Chain Design Module

June 3, 2015

Insight Inc.

Insight Inc., a vendor of software for supply-chain design, has added a data-analysis and visualization module to its SAILS software.

Accenture Debuts Analytics Apps Platform

May 28, 2015

Accenture

Accenture has launched the Accenture Analytics Applications Platform.

How Starbucks Meets the Challenges of a 'Same Day' World

May 22, 2015

SupplyChainBrain

Steve Lovejoy, senior vice president for the Starbucks global supply chain, discusses initiatives that the company has under way to meet the "whenever, wherever" demands of today's consumers as well as projects aimed at understanding the consumer of tomorrow.