http://www.cioinsight.com Supply Chain Management and Logistics - RSS Feeds en-us Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:13:33 -0400 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:13:33 -0400 Wed, 25 May 2005 17:53:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/SCM-Blasts-Off-into-Space/?kc=rss - With a recent $3.8 million NASA award to MIT for research on interplanetary supply chain architectures, SCM is soaring to new heights of visibility. But what exactly is an interplanetary supply chain, and how does it relate to enterprise supply chains right here on Earth? As defined by MIT pro...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/SCM-Blasts-Off-into-Space/?kc=rss Mon, 23 May 2005 21:14:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/Sterling-to-Integrate-Yantras-Software/?kc=rss - In a move eliciting mixed reactions from IT users, B2B software and services provider Sterling Commerce on Tuesday is expected to launch the first product to result from its $170 million acquisition of retail technology specialist Yantra last December. Slated for announcement at the Retail Systems ...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/Sterling-to-Integrate-Yantras-Software/?kc=rss Tue, 17 May 2005 15:22:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/Microsoft-i2-Ease-SupplyChain-Collaboration/?kc=rss - Gearing up for a big sales event planned for July, Microsoft and i2 Technologies are starting to team with customers and partners around a new joint supply-chain-management solution that's expected to get a major push from both vendors. First announced at the i2 Planet conference in Phoenix last w...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/Microsoft-i2-Ease-SupplyChain-Collaboration/?kc=rss Thu, 05 May 2005 12:47:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/Revamped-Supply-Chain-Vendors-Take-on-ERP-Giants/?kc=rss - At international user conferences this month, new management teams at supply chain vendors Manugistics Group Inc. and i2 Technologies Inc. are trying hard to win more customers, while steering existing users clear of enterprise resource planning titan SAP AG and a throng of other rivals. But wit...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/Revamped-Supply-Chain-Vendors-Take-on-ERP-Giants/?kc=rss Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:17:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/Manugistics-Poses-New-Pitch-to-IT-Buyers/?kc=rss - CIOs, IT managers and other enterprise buyers are getting a new sales pitch these days from supply chain vendor Manugistics Group Inc. Under the helm of Joe Cowan, who joined Manugistics last July as CEO, Manugistics is trying to switch from a software approach to a vertically focused solutions...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/Manugistics-Poses-New-Pitch-to-IT-Buyers/?kc=rss Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:15:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/Businesses-Feel-the-Pain-of-Offshore-Buying/?kc=rss - To try to cut costs, enterprises of all sizes are moving more and more to offshoring, buying their finished goods and raw materials from China and other overseas countries. But to keep these globalization efforts from backfiring, businesses need to adopt new IT systems in areas ranging from trade ...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/Businesses-Feel-the-Pain-of-Offshore-Buying/?kc=rss Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:03:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/RFID-Patent-War-Escalates/?kc=rss - The long and bitter intellectual property battle between Intermec Technologies Corp. and Symbol Technologies Inc. raged on this week, as Symbol's chief IP counsel accused Intermec of embarking on an industry-stifling campaign to enforce and collect RFID royalties. Intermec's chief operating office...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/RFID-Patent-War-Escalates/?kc=rss Mon, 04 Apr 2005 21:45:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/Impinj-Launches-Industrys-First-RFID-Gen-2-System/?kc=rss - Impinj announced on Monday the roll-out of its GrandPrix, a set of RFID tags and readers touted as the first RFID system to comply with EPCGlobal's emerging Generation 2 protocol. In an interview with CIO Insight, Impinj Inc. President and CEO William Colleran said that GrandPrix includes the new ...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/Impinj-Launches-Industrys-First-RFID-Gen-2-System/?kc=rss Mon, 04 Apr 2005 17:14:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/Microsoft-Offers-Partners-New-MapPoint-License-Option/?kc=rss - Microsoft has acceded to partners' requests to provide more reasonable licensing options for MapPoint, a mapping software product now being tweaked by some integrators to create custom logistics applications for enterprises and SMBs that run their own fleets of cars or trucks. Over the past few yea...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/Microsoft-Offers-Partners-New-MapPoint-License-Option/?kc=rss Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:14:00 -0500 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/Sun-Eyes-RFID-Centers-for-Taiwan-Japan/?kc=rss - Sun Microsystems Inc. is now looking to launch radio-frequency identification customer centers in Taiwan, Japan and Europe, now that similar centers are already underway for RFID users in Korea, Singapore and the United States. Sun chose Dallas as the site of its first RFID center in order to be ...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/Sun-Eyes-RFID-Centers-for-Taiwan-Japan/?kc=rss Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:43:00 -0500 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/RSA-Finds-More-Security-Flaws-in-RFID/?kc=rss - After uncovering a security weakness in a radio-frequency identification tag from Texas Instruments Inc., researchers from RSA Security Inc.'s RSA Laboratories and The Johns Hopkins University are now eyeing future exploits against other RFID products in the interests of better security, one of the ...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/RSA-Finds-More-Security-Flaws-in-RFID/?kc=rss Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:52:00 -0500 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/Homeland-Security-Officials-Refute-RFID-Reports/?kc=rss - U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials have hotly denied reports by some other publications that the agency's upcoming ID cards will use radio-frequency identification. Instead, the DHS will deploy another type of RF technology known as ISO/IEC 14443, which is soon to be required for all f...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Supply-Chain-Management-and-Logistics/Homeland-Security-Officials-Refute-RFID-Reports/?kc=rss