The computing giant has signed up Germany's largest department store chain, Karstadt, as a user of the technology, and the company will allow customers to check online orders in store. Retailers will be able to check customers' online orders from...
New features to the i2 suite of applications include content and cataloguing management, order settlement, and freight matrix - the ability to co-ordinate and monitor shipping schedules. Commerce One's Global Trading Web provides a technology...
The processes need to be looked at as value chains within the business - such as, how do we move a prospect to a customer, how do we fulfil customer orders, how does our supply chain operate? At the bottom of the heap are those processes that we...
David Coleman, managing director of analyst firm Collaborative Strategies, insists that "pushing collaboration out to the supply chain is very important. Supply chain collaboration costs are also falling, thanks to collaborative tools.
I fully expect the company to keep on doing what it does best - namely eating away at commodity areas through brutal supply chain efficiency and what our analyst friends would call 'execution' - but right now it's hit a pothole in the road.
Midlands Co-op has installed a supply chain management system from Aldata to manage orders, store inventory, replenishment, point of sale and payments. Boots is rolling out a new Extra Offers kiosk system for use by its 15 million Advantage loyalty...