Appointments/promotions:StrandWare Inc. appoints Amy Hansen to the newly created position of international sales and distribution manager...SeeCommerce announces that president and CEO Paul Albright is chairman of the board...Optum, Inc. appoints Kevin Hart to chief operating officer...Fred Sytsma, vice president, Frost, Inc., is the Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association's president, Lee F. Schomberg, vice president, marketing, Ermanco Inc., is vice president, William J. Casey, vice president, production and assembly systems, SI Systems, Inc., is secretary, and James F. Lamb, vice president, marketing and sales, Drives, Inc., is treasurer...Swisslog Translogic hires Dominic Conti as the new East coast sales consultant for the healthcare and commercial markets...The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute promotes Dinah Sprouse to director, trade show operations...Alvey Systems, Inc. appoints Paul Moore to director, systems sales...EXE Technologies, Inc. selects Kenneth J. Powell to president and chief operating officer...Humantech, Inc. adds Walt Rostykus as vice president, corporate program implementation.

Alliances/construction: Vertex Interactive, Inc. announces a business alliance with Serti Informatique that will allow them to market, implement, and service a warehouse management solution in Canada...Vertex also announces a partnership with American Management Systems in which AMS will resell Vertex's integrated suite of supply chain execution software...Alba Manufacturing, Inc. is doubling production capacity with construction of a new plant and headquarters facility in Fairfield, Ohio...Acorn Systems, Inc. enters into a partnership agreement with E3 Corp. to provide best of breed solutions focused on optimizing inventory based on profitability...IBM and J.D. Edwards announce a strategic alliance to jointly sell and market collaborative commerce solutions within the public sector and wholesale distribution industry.