Analyst Insight: Network design, network planning, network analysis, network optimization, or network studies - these terms have been used over the past 25 years to represent the work to determine how to set up logistics networks, how to analyze them for cost reductions, and how to re-plan them when something important changes. - Gene Tyndall, Executive Vice President, Tompkins International

Companies shifting manufacturing from China back to the U.S.? That's old news. Given the recent economic setbacks in the Chinese economy, however, you have to wonder whether the trend will continue.

LLamasoft Inc. a vendor of supply-chain design software, has introduced SupplyChainGuru.com.

LLamasoft Inc., a vendor of supply-chain design applications, has expanded operations in the Asia-Pacific region with a new venture based in Tokyo, Japan.