Supply Chain

HighJump Software adds onto itssupply chain solutions suite to better serve its consumers.

Three years ago, Del Monte Foods deployed demand signal repository software to enhance its demand-driven supply chain management decisions across leading retailers. CGT spoke with Dom Clemente, director of demand planning, and Andy Wojewodka, director, IT business consulting, to discern how the company is currently leveraging data from both a sales and supply chain perspective.

Recalls can be dangerous for the consumer, but they are also downright detrimental to the consumer goods companies involved as consumers abandon a recalled brand for another in the interim, or worse, for life. CGT asks analysts from AMR Research, Hitachi Consulting and IBM to identify the primary causes of product recalls and how your company can monitor external production operations to thwart those causes.

Contributing author Simon Ellis, practice director, supply chain strategies for Manufacturing Insights, an IDC company, provides step by step instructions on how supply chain professionals can better sense and respond to massive amounts of data rather than become victim to it.

Throughout the school year, teachers and students will collect empty glue bottles and glue sticks nationwide for the Elmer's Glue Crew recycling program.

Wyeth invests in expansion project to develop state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Singapore.

A distribution agreement will expand Logility's presence in the Italian marketplace.

CDC Software buys a 51 percent stake in Integrated Solutions Limited, an ERP systems vendor to small and medium-sized discrete manufacturers in China.