The intersection of business intelligence (BI) with mobile devices and fast wireless connections will likely revolutionize the supply chain management (SCM) landscape in a couple of key ways. It will bring back-end apps to smartphones and tablets, and improve the…
Cloud ERP vendor NetSuite (NYSE: N) has extended its cloud-based business management suite with new demand planning features for wholesalers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors. Leveraging NetSuite’s integrated business management suite, NetSuite said its new demand planning bridges the gap between…
Enterprise social networking provider Yammer has unveiled a number of new integration products that add a “social layer” to improve collaboration and decision-making within enterprises. According to Yammer, the new suite of integration products enable enterprise networks to integrate social…
The worldwide supply chain management software market rebounded strongly last year, according to research and advisory company Gartner Inc. For 2010, the worldwide supply chain management (SCM) software market returned to double-digit growth, as the year saw SCM software revenue…
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) this week released its PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials and Supply Chain Management (FSCM) 9.1 Feature Pack 2011, and also began quietly rolling out its long-awaited Fusion Applications. Oracle says PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.1 is the most significant release of…
SAP (NYSE: SAP) is now offerings its Rapid Deployment solutions worldwide and has announced 15 new offerings as part of its quarterly release. The new offerings are designed to meet the business needs of finance, human resources (HR), IT, marketing,…
In an effort to pin down specific ways business intelligence software can help businesses work smarter, we recently spoke with Brian Gentile, the CEO of open source business intelligence vendor Jaspersoft. And while no two organizations are exactly the same,…
Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the fundamental underlying technology used to manage the flow of materials and services needed to make a product and deliver it to customers. This Open PR article suggests that incorporating collaborative planning an experienced SCM…
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) completed its $1 billion acquisition of e-commerce software vendor ATG this week and outlined ambitious plans to merge CRM, ERP, retail applications and supply chain management. Thomas Kurian, Oracle’s executive vice president for product development, said on…
When you think of fields where there just aren’t enough skilled candidates to go around, one that probably doesn’t come to mind is supply chain management, described in this Fortune article as the complicated, behind-the-scenes job of getting goods from…