Users now want ebusiness functionality and link their applications to ebusiness applications so they can automate the supply chain. However, de Bruin predicted it would be a long while before the newly positioned ERPs realised any revenues.
Holland believes there is huge opportunity for RFID technology beyond the retail market for the automotive and pharmaceutical industries. IBM expanded its presence in the market for radio frequency identification on Monday with the introduction of...
Motor giant, Ford, has signed a deal with Oracle to launch an automotive supply chain network designed to streamline the car manufacturer's procurement process. The system will link 30,000 suppliers involved in the automotive giant's purchasing...
Interviews were carried out across retail, automotive, financial services, manufacturing and high-tech but Longbottom said "feelings were overall pretty similar" in each vertical sector. One fear is that supply chain automation problems could lead...
Already, there are solutions for electronics, manufacturing and construction and the company expects to add automotive and life sciences verticals in the near future. Down at JD Edwards, everything seems to be going swimmingly as the supply chain...
That system was part of a five-year global IT transformation project called Probe which entailed implementing a £200m ERP system for supply chain, purchasing, manufacturing, distribution, sales and marketing.