News from Australia: Woolworths, a major force in retail sector in Australia, has invested further in its supply chain redevelopment program by adding sophisticated business process management (BPM) capabilities in the region, B-Eye Network reported. Woolworths is also investing in an SOA registry and governance platform to underpin its overall corporate move towards service-oriented architecture (SOA). The announcement was originally made by Software AG, a global leader in business infrastructure software.

webMethods Optimize, Software AG's patented business activity monitoring (BAM) solution, will provide Woolworths with real-time insight into how their supply chain processes are performing, what's working well, where there may be bottlenecks and why, and what can be improved. It will allow Woolworths to create and build process strategies against its business vision, defining and tracking Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for people, process and system performance throughout their supply chain.