Jacqueline Emigh

Matson Integrated Logistics, a division of ocean carrier Matson Navigation Co. Inc., has acquired Aquitaine Assets Ltd., a $20 million transportation and technology company in Texas, for an undisclosed sum. MILs main reason for acquiring Houston-based Aquitaine is to expand its own rail, truck and air freight services into Texas, said Jeff Hull, a company […]

i2 Technologies signed a number of deals in the last financial quarter, with customers that included Sun Microsystems, but the supply chain vendors total revenues dropped for both the quarter and the 2004 financial year. In response, i2 Technologies Inc. will keep cutting costs while undertaking a reverse stock split and promoting its latest solutions […]

Riding high on a stellar financial quarter, surveillance systems vendor L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. is pondering future opportunities—and possible acquisitions—in cargo security and other antiterrorist aspects of homeland security, as well as in military defense. After announcing a 21.2 percent leap in earnings for the fourth quarter of 2004, L-3 Chief Executive Frank Lanza said […]

With a record 122 software deals during the fourth quarter of 2004, supply chain vendor JDA Software Group Inc. is well-positioned for further growth, regardless of plans to restructure and challenges that remain in a couple of sales areas, according to CEO Hamish Brewer. In a Form 8-K filing submitted to the SEC (Securities and […]

In its fifth big e-procurement win of the past year, ICG Commerce Inc. has signed a multiyear, multimillion dollar business process outsourcing contract with industrial packaging giant Greif Inc. Under the agreement, ICG Commerce will outsource all of Greifs procurement in indirect categories, which range from MRO (maintenance, repair and operations) items to facilities and […]

After making a range of moves last year toward bolstering RFID adoption, network specialist VeriSign Inc. is now working with epcGlobal on future RFID security improvements, while also consulting enterprises about which business processes to RFID-enable in the interests of quicker ROI. VeriSign started out 2004 by announcing that it had nailed down a contract […]

Whats going to happen in manufacturing technology during 2005? Users will adopt new supply chain solutions in areas such as supplier relationship management. On the other hand, manufacturers will “fail to find the business case” for the highly touted RFID, according to research from Manufacturing Insights, a newly created IDC company. “Productivity is the supply […]

NEW YORK—i2 Technologies Inc. is readying new tools for retailers in the areas of demand planning and inventory management, according to a company executive. Meanwhile, customers such as Payless, Woolworth Australia and Best Buy are making use of some of the hundreds of new workflows already included in i2s Six Two supply chain software suite, […]

NEW YORK—It isnt every day that people—including most retail professionals—get to catch a glimpse of whats down the road in retail technology. And when a big group of IT vendors, merchandisers and major retailers put together a “store of the future” at the annual convention of the National Retail Federation here, RFID turned out to […]

NEW YORK—When it comes to talk of RFID implementation, Wal-Mart is usually at the center of it. But at the National Retail Federation Convention here, two large European retailers are making some noise of their own. At a press conference Monday, speakers from Tesco and the Metro Group said the two retailers are already performing […]