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Leading provider of SAP Supply Chain Execution solutions and services, have closed an agreement for LogiStar to join the EY organization, one of the largest professional service firms in the world.

We asked top experts and practitioners for their most useful nuggets of advice for companies embarking on customer experience initiatives. Hint: Share these with your C-suite.

An omnichannel strategy is really about developing the intelligence needed to most effectively take action – using the right resources at those critical moments to create remarkable, profitable consumer experiences.

The supply chain software market is evolving toward platforms that optimize end-to-end processes and juggle constraints at all levels. Roberto Michel, Editor at Large, talked to a few leading suppliers who are making progress on this vision.

To improve the logistics of tracking and tracing members of Team USA, a new Team USA Guide app (developed by AT&T) helps athletes, coaches and delegation members communicate with each other.

When the word "collaboration" is substituted for "social," we can see that B2B organizations made use of these technologies long before the word "social" came into vogue. Most supply chain planning (SCP) systems today are not social. Rather, they are oriented around the job of an individual planner, who works with a user interface that strongly resembles an Excel spreadsheet.

Here’s what analysts, supply chain pros, and a recent SCMR survey say customers want and expect from the leaders in the supply chain software space.

Retailers "don't know where new skilled managers will come from and don't see the required skills reflected in the current talent pool."

The market for supply chain management software continued to grow in 2012, with strong growth predicted for the future, too.

Acquisition will expand e-commerce capabilities.

Despite all the talk about WCS, warehouse management systems are playing an expanded role in distribution.

At Scotts Miracle-Gro, a fleet management program keeps the pallets moving.

Lift trucks, stretch wrap and floor storage are at the heart of Scotts’ distribution activities.

Expert inventory management advice from our panel of 6 industry leaders—representing a combined 80 years of inventory experience; Curt Sardeson Open Sky Group, Aman Sapra, St. Onge Company, Dave Wheeler, St. Onge Company, Jennifer Sherman, Oracle, Michael Wohlwend, SAP Americas, and Chris Jones, Descartes.

Watch how SAP and Google are pairing enterprise applications with consumer-friendly tools to bring “big data” to life. With location-based intelligence capabilities from SAP, people will be able to interact with real-time information via Google Maps and Google Earth to analyze their businesses in a geospatial context to better understand the “where” of their information.