Jacqueline Emigh

Sensing a relatively untapped, multibillion-dollar market opportunity, IBM on Thursday will launch a new outsourced-services offering aimed at ultimately managing all aspects of customers supply chains. Competing against consulting giant Accenture as well as some smaller players, IBMs new SCM (supply-chain management) outsourcing business unit will be part of its Business Process Transformation arm, said […]

A new product and a joint announcement with Microsoft are the latest signs that mobile computing specialist Symbol Technologies Inc. is focusing more attention on radio-frequency identification this year. Symbol on Monday rolled out the XR400, the latest in a series of devices for reading and processing the RFID “tags,” or labels, that customers affix […]

Terrorism worries are adding new dimensions to the job of supply chain manager, according to Theo Fletcher, one of IBMs own supply chain managers. Fletcher has been working with the WCO (World Customs Organization) lately to help support a proposed global cargo security standard that comes up for a big vote later in June. “Supply […]

With a recent $3.8 million NASA award to MIT for research on “interplanetary supply chain architectures,” SCM is soaring to new heights of visibility. But what exactly is an “interplanetary supply chain,” and how does it relate to enterprise supply chains right here on Earth? As defined by MIT professors Olivier de Weck and David […]

In a move eliciting mixed reactions from IT users, B2B software and services provider Sterling Commerce on Tuesday is expected to launch the first product to result from its $170 million acquisition of retail technology specialist Yantra last December. Slated for announcement at the Retail Systems Conference and Exhibition in Chicago, Sterlings “retail solution” will […]

Gearing up for a big sales event planned for July, Microsoft and i2 Technologies are starting to team with customers and partners around a new joint supply-chain-management solution thats expected to get a major push from both vendors. First announced at the i2 Planet conference in Phoenix last week, the solution will fulfill the SCM […]

Symbol has launched a new RFID training and certification program, geared strictly to channel partners such as resellers and integrators with the right combination of implementation skills and RFID commitment. Symbol Technologies Inc. officially unveiled the new program last week, as part of a larger announcement of an upgraded “next generation” PartnerSelect Program for 2005. […]

NEW YORK—Companies can make money from Linux—but for that to happen, its important for them to understand how open-source software models and communities work, said participants in this weeks “Linux on Wall Street” conference here. In some ways, successful players in the Linux space will be following in the footsteps of VARs before them by […]

The SCO Group has finalized a contract naming supply-chain provider Synnex as a distributor, a deal seen by some as a sign that SCO is de-emphasizing its Linux legal woes by making a renewed commitment to the SCO Unix platform. Since 2003, The SCO Group Inc. has been highly visible on industry radar screens for […]

CIOs, IT managers and other enterprise buyers are getting a new sales pitch these days from supply chain vendor Manugistics Group Inc. Under the helm of Joe Cowan, who joined Manugistics last July as CEO, Manugistics is trying to switch from a “software” approach to a vertically focused “solutions” strategy aimed at thwarting both the […]