Archive for 'Supply Chain Software' Category
JDA acquires i2
15 August 2008JDA is all set to acquire i2 Technologies for approximately USD $346 million - the huger for scale is relentless, it seems but whether or not it succeeds is a different matter altogether.
“By acquiring i2 we double our addressable market in manufacturing to include discrete manufacturing, complementing our current market leadership in process manufacturing […]
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How supply chain metrics are used?
16 February 2007SDExec.com reports on the results of a survey carried out by Maxager. The principal finding of the survey was,
Many manufacturers believe that it is important to measure the speed at which products are made, but very few have systems in place to do so
The survey results amply show that while everyone is aware that there […]
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Is an IBM and SAP Marriage in the Works?
13 February 2007SCDigest reports on strong rumors about merger talks between IBM and SAP.
These are just rumors, to be sure, and have been circulating at some level for almost a year.
SAP has strongly denied the rumors during that time, though chairman Hasso Plattner unintentionally put some fuel in the fire last May by saying to the German […]
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Different Priorities - Investment Prioritization for Manufacturing Software
15 December 2006IndustryWeek reports on investment prioritization for manufacturing operations software and how it varies across different industry segments in a recent article titled - Different Priorities.
According to the report,
# In chemicals, 28% of the manufacturing budget will be applied to advanced process control and simulation.
# In aerospace and defense, 50% of the manufacturing budget will be […]
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Artificial Intelligence in Supply Chains - cont’d
4 December 2006In this addendum to the post - Artificial Intelligence in Supply Chains, I want to highlight a paper (part of a book on the subject) titled: Supply Chain Management and Multiagent Systems: An Overview published by Thierry Moyaux, Brahim Chaib-draa, and Sophie D’Amours available online here.
Tags: Artificial Integlligence, AI, Intelligent Agents, Multiagent Modeling
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Artificial Intelligence in Supply Chains
4 December 2006InformationWeek has a dated article about Artificial Intelligence making a foray into the Supply Chain Management space. The article by David M. Ewalt talks about how
Software makers such as IBM, i2 Technologies, Manugistics, and SAP are rushing to imbue supply-chain-management tools with artificial intelligence, allowing them to make better choices and even learn from […]
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REA, a semantic model for Internet supply chain collaboration
13 November 2006REA (Resource-Event-Agent) is a semantic model for internet based Supply Chain collaboration developed by Dr. William McCarthy of Michigan State University. In this presentation for the ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2000), Dr. McCarthy and Robert Haugen, Logistical Software LLC outline a web-based semantic model for collaboration.
Before I dived into […]
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