Supply Chain Management Software

Performance during the COVID-19 pandemic and AI’s role in building resilient businesses.

Koch Equity Development LLC, the investment and acquisition subsidiary of Koch Industries, Inc., has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the remaining equity stake in business cloud-software developer Infor.

To help manufacturers address the full needs of complex, global supply chains, Oracle announced the expansion of the Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud with two new product offerings, Planning Central Cloud and Manufacturing Cloud.

For the most part, building off several years of vendor consolidation, 2014 represented a favorable environment for supply chain technologies, said Chad Eschinger, research vice president at Gartner.

According to a Gartner report released in 2012, "Cloud computing has a significant potential impact on every aspect of IT and how users access applications, information and business services."

With customer data spread across multiple systems and databases, Syncron’s Global Customer Master (GCM) is the centralized repository that consolidates all the customer reference data, along with the cross-references to source systems, into a master reference store.

Supply chain technology continued to evolve throughout 2012 as companies realize that a highly visible supply chain is necessary for success in today’s business climate. Of course, overall IT trends such as the cloud, big data and mobile are impacting the supply chain sector just as they do other sectors. But there are other trends specific to supply chain that came to the forefront in 2012.