Artificial Intelligence

Consumer Goods Industry Must Embrace External Resources

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. makes a $1.5 million donation to the University of Arkansas Applied Sustainability Center to fund projects related to advanced research on greenhouse gas emissions, agriculture and environmental education.

Vantage ID Applications, an automatic identification and data capture solutions provider, has spun-out from parent company RSI ID Technologies.

Masco, a manufacturer of home improvement and building products, is using a software application from Centric Software to capture new product ideas and guide contributions through a standard process that is specifically designed to filter out the best ideas and identify ideas worthy of patenting.

Intermec announces shipment of the new SR61ex, the first handheld cordless scanner to integrate the company's proprietary Intellibeam EX25 near-far area imaging technology.

Business Objects rounds out its portfolio of advanced enterprise information management (EIM) solutions by unveiling Universal Data Cleanse (UDC), a new option from BusinessObjects Data Quality XI Release 2.

JDA Software Group Inc. announces that enterprise software and supply chain expert Larry Ferrere joins the company as senior vice president of product management and chief marketing officer (CMO).

The highly competitive nature of the consumer goods industry pushes companies to continually improve production efficiency and service levels while simultaneously introducing new products faster and delivering smaller and more frequent shipments.