Jacqueline Emigh

To smooth out the supply chain around ocean-bound shipments, NACA Logistics Group is taking a couple of new steps: setting up wireless LANs at five warehouse locations and launching whats possibly the cargo consolidation industrys first Hazardous Materials Department. NACA is one of the worlds largest players in a category called called NVOCC (global non-vessel […]

When a company outgrows its core application package, surprising choices sometimes spring up. After turning into the largest same-day document shipper in North America, Dallas, Texas-based Dynamex Inc. has opted to swap its old shrink-wrapped order processing system from Datatrac for an enterprise IT platform built in-house, according to Andy Argento, the shippers vice president […]

Nearly nine months after merging with FreeMarkets, Ariba Inc. is now developing a more integrated procurement lineup, with the ultimate goal of giving users an on demand model for “spend management” software and services. In a presentation at Lehman Brothers 2005 Global Software, IT Services and Internet Conference, Ariba Chief Financial Officer Jim Frankola likened […]

Enterprise resource planning giant SAP AG has begun collaborating with RFID (radio-frequency identification) IP holder Intermec Technologies on new offerings meant to help companies with fewer than 100 employees meet RFID mandates from Wal-Mart, Ford Motor Company, the U.S. Department of Defense and other huge trading partners. In April, Intermec expects to ship EasyADC (Automatic […]

Microsoft Corp. plans to follow up on Tuesdays announcement of its Peak Performance Initiative for manufacturing markets by rolling out a supply chain initiative—as well as new RFID partners—over the next few months. Under PPI, unveiled at the National Manufacturing Week 2005 conference, Microsoft will work with third-party partners on solutions addressing the areas of […]

Users consistently rate best-of-breed supply chain software as better than ERP in most functional areas. But often, companies go ahead and buy ERP (enterprise resource planning) software anyway, due to muddled decision-making and internal politics, according to new research by industry analyst Dan Gilmore. In two new reports, Gilmore also finds that integration costs are […]

Microsoft Corp. marked BizTalk Servers fourth anniversary this week by releasing an upgrade to Accelerator for RosettaNet, one of a series of software accelerators thats been helping to widen BizTalks reach across multiple vertical supply chain markets. Like previous editions of the same product, the new BizTalk Server 2004 Accelerator for RosettaNet is aimed at […]

Alien Technology Corp., a major maker of RFID tags and readers, is using the platform of this weeks RFID World to roll out a set of RFID products, a training course and consulting services targeted at Wal-Mart distributors. A similar bundle is available for Department of Defense trading partners. In an interview with eWEEK.com, Tom […]

The Sun RFID ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) for Manufacturing, released this week at RFID World, is slated to be followed by other RFID (radio-frequency identification) reference architectures from Sun Microsystems Inc. geared to supply chain applications in the pharmaceutical, retail, government and defense markets. Suns RFID ISA for Manufacturing is targeted mainly at CPG (consumer […]

Michael E. McGrath, newly named interim president and CEO of i2 Technologies, predicted this week that the vendors return to profitability will be eased by a growing “blurring of distinctions” between enterprise resource planning and best-of-breed supply-chain software. Yet meanwhile, i2 Technologies Inc. has put a temporary hold on previously announced plans to return to […]