Arbela Technologies Corp. has issued the latest version of its Master Data Centralization (MDC) application for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.

Cortera has launched a B2B Purchase Insights offering, enabling sales, marketing and finance executives to better research and understand their customers, prospects and suppliers.

Transplace, the North American-based third-party logistics provider, is integrating its truckload benchmarking data into the Supply Chain Guru software of LLamasoft.

In-house logistics professionals want a lot more information and attention from their prospective logistics service providers these days, says Bill Weaver, senior account executive with United Transportation Services Inc.

Mike Jones, president of St. Onge Co., explains the value of total landed cost modeling, and how it's affecting decisions to offshore manufacturing activities.

Remember when Motorola ruled the mobile phone business worldwide? And then Nokia did? And then BlackBerry did? And now none of them do? What happened?

Kewill has developed a new version of its Web-based application for order management. The update of EasyTrade Web Edition allows open-community collaboration between companies and suppliers, enabling the electronic exchange of orders and e-invoices.

Eight corporate teams that demonstrated how their supply chain practices reduced costs, streamlined processes, saved energy, and improved operating efficiencies are finalists in the eighth annual Supply Chain Innovation Award competition presented by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals and SupplyChainBrain.

Stanford University's Graduate School of Business will host a one-day conference on socially and environmentally responsible supply chains. Entitled "Shared Value and Supply Chains - Strategies for Success," the event will take place on Oct. 10, 2012 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:20 p.m., and be followed by a networking reception.