ERP has been around for quite a bit but beside the consolidation which is happening, there is still a significant growth rate in the market. This is good news for the implementation consultants such...

The wave of acquisition is now moving from integrated solution providers such as SAP or Oracle to pure-player companies and a recent example of that is Sterling Commerce. Sterling Commerce has...

Paul Hamerman of Forrester Research recently wrote a report on the current market overview of Business Performance Solutions (BPS) and specifically SAP´s strategic movements. I think you may know...

Global Supply Chain Council, one of our oldest partners, published a piece recently about the situation of WMS software in China. The author of the piece which its title is "The WMS industry...

There are three typical strategies for increasing profitability of a company: (1) To increase the sales of the same product in the existing market (Usually by taking share of competitors) (2) Selling...

It is difficult for large multi-billion dollar markets to grow rapidly, but the supply chain execution (SCE) market will achieve that feat, according to a new study from analyst firm ARC Advisory...

Dan Gilmore of Supply Chain Digest has been writing a series of articles recently with a theme quite similar to one of my earlier posts. The title of his articles are "Supply Chain Mega...

Patrick Dixon is one of the most popular futurists. He was ranked as one of 20 most influential business thinkers (Thinkers 50 2005) and consults many multinationals on the trends in markets. If...

Last year I had an interview with Max Henry of China Supply Chain Council and as he described, the state of the supply chain market in China was such that the companies were more interested to stay...

After the busy 2006 in which there were approximately $7 billion in mergers and acquisition activity in the transportation and logistics market, activity in this space through the first seven months...

There are nearly two billion Muslims in the world, most of them prefer Halal type of meat to eat, and this has made them a nice market for logistics people to penetrate. The international halal food...

Well, actually pharma industry was one of the last industries which started to move some part of its value chain to China but they easily got momentum with their movements. One of the last cases is...

Verizon Business is entering into the supply chain management market, the latest expansion of its managed information technology solutions portfolio. Verizon Business is teaming with GXS Inc. to...

A day after fake batches of Eli Lilly's antipsychotic Zyprexa were discovered in the supply chain, the UK's health regulator has issued a warning about counterfeits of Sanofi-Aventis and...

Marks and Spencer, a leading UK-based department store retailer, announced it had increases spending on supply chain related technology by about 290% in the past year, led by continued investment in...

With the Green supply chain movement gaining momentum on all fronts, an environmental rights group called the Worldwatch Institute has taken aim at the bottled water industry. "Bottled water may...

One of the reasons that made me go to Spain Last August was the plans of the Aragon's local government in Spain to establish the biggest logistics park in Europe. After visiting the park's...

The stock price of i2 Supply Chain software took a pounding this week, dropping at one point almost 30% after the company reported quarterly results that were somewhat disappointing to analysts,...