Supply chain software rebounds

That's one of the findings of a new report from AMR Research. Looking forward, AMR expects 5% compound annual growth for the next five years.

To understand the uptick in business, you have to look at the causes behind the decline, says Kevin O'Marah, AMR's vice president of research.   Read More

PIM is a relatively new application space that does for a company's products what customer relationship management (CRM) and supplier relationship management (SRM) do for other parts of the business: create one central data warehouse for all the relevant, real-time information about the products a company manufactures or distributes.

That information can be accessed by the sales and marketing side of the organization that need descriptions, images and merchandizing information about a product. The same is true for the transportation department that has to comply with hazardous materials codes.

It's also valuable for the warehouse manager, or a WMS system, that needs to know hierarchical information like orderable quantities, the number of units in a case and the number of cases on a pallet.   Read More

The first Webcast, "How manufacturing solutions boost enterprise systems' effectiveness," was broadcast on June 9 and is now archived on the MESA website.

"Setting the right functional boundaries between ERP and MES," which examines the relationship between ERP and MES systems was broadcast on July 19, and will be available soon.

The date for "Integrating ERP with MES," the third in the series, will be determined soon.   Read More

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LeanLogistics, provider of web-native transportation management systems (TMS), announces that Aberdeen Group features case studies of LeanLogistics clients Orange Glo International and Unilever Foods in its newly-published study, "Best Practices in Transportation Management -- Case Studies on How Companies Are Driving Cost and Service Improvements."   Read More

Defywire, Inc., the wireless middleware and mobile application provider, announced the widespread commercial availability of its new mobile software for the logistics industry, LogiTrac.   Read More

Brooks Automation, Inc., which develops and produces hardware, software and systems to enable manufacturing efficiencies for the semiconductor and other complex manufacturing industries, announced that several new products will be featured at the Brooks booth (#2526) at SEMICON West, in San Francisco from July 12-14, 2005.   Read More

Kewill Solutions, provider of shipping management software and Tradepoint, Kewill's international trade logistics division and provider of export compliance and documentation software, announced the introduction of the Kewill Flagship family of enterprise shipping and export compliance software solutions.  Read More

AMR Research has released its annual report on the progress of the Supply Chain Management (SCM) market.  Read More