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At Laid-Back Ben & Jerry's, a Push for Stricter Quality Control

Growth in sales was making it tougher for the popular maker of premium ice cream to keep tabs on its production line. New software to ensure manufacturing quality was needed.

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Importance of Demand Management Grows as Sources of Data Multiply

Demand management as a pursuit, a skill, a function and a set of technologies has grown considerably in importance due to new ways to reach customers and new ways to analyze data about them. Intense competition for product companies and retailers and the squeeze on margins challenge companies to get a lot better at planning.

Meeting Customer Expectations No. 1 Logistics Objective, Survey Finds

Logistics complexity - in the form of fragmented channels, increased product variations, and consumer demand for customized solutions - has been increasing, according to a global study published by BVL International, a worldwide supply chain and logistics membership organization.

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Jump Technologies Offers Material-Management Tool for Healthcare

Jump Technologies Inc., a vendor of cloud-based software for supply-chain management, has extended its inventory-management tool to the healthcare industry.

Tecsys Crafts Inventory Manager for Operating Rooms

Tecsys Inc. has developed the OR Inventory Manager, to aid in the management of supply chains supporting hospital operating rooms.

Infor Issues Update of Demand Planning Application

Infor has developed version 6.6 of Infor Demand Planning.

E2open Acquires Planning and Collaboration Vendor icon-scm

E2open has acquired icon-scm, a vendor of supply-chain planning and collaboration software.

How's Life After Air Force's Enterprise Combat Support System Was Shot Down?

With the federal CIO's push to end wasteful spending, and a new mandate to work more effectively with the tools already in place - what's next for the United States Air Force?

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Electrolux Supply Chain Exec Discusses Launch and Roll-out of Global S&OP

Ulf Harring, head of the global supply chain at Electrolux, discusses the strategy behind Electrolux's global sales and operations planning process and the challenges of rolling S&OP out across a globally diversified company.

Oracle Unveils In-Memory Apps; Outsourced Manufacturing for Discrete Industries

Oracle Corp. has released the Oracle In-Memory Logistics Command Center.

Electrolux SC Exec Discusses Launch and Roll-out of Global S&OP

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Infor Issues New Version of Advanced Scheduling App

Infor has released version 5.5 of Infor Advanced Scheduling for process and complex manufacturing.

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