Ben Ames has spent 30 years as a journalist since starting out as a reporter for daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He has focused on business and technology reporting since 1999 for ...

Oracle Corp., Lawson Software Inc. and i2 Technologies Inc. all have either shipped an updated supply chain management (SCM) system or plan to ship one over the next month. And SAP AG disclosed last ...

Countless supply chain executives currently report the dichotomy of healthy but elongated sales pipelines, as prospects delay new software investments until they gain clarity on the transformative ...

From carbon tracking to supplier transparency, these software platforms help manufacturers build greener and more responsible supply chains.

Preparing for the Black Friday shopping rush at a Walmart store in Miami. Managing supply chains is rough for any company, as the past few years have shown. For a retailing goliath like Walmart WMT — ...

Wanting to cut back on costs, a software company decides to hire engineers abroad. Everything goes well for several months until a conflict breaks out in the region. Trying to reach safety with their ...

Rival vendors of supply chain management software are racing to develop tools that give users additional collaboration capabilities and real-time visibility of product inventory and demand levels. For ...