Heather Harreld

HAHT Commerce Inc. has announced a new demand chain management suite that is designed to provide all the functionality manufacturers need to manage sales and marketing processes across multiple channels.

SPS Commerce Inc. rolled out three new multi-channel order management packages as part of its supply chain integration service on Tuesday.

A group of software veterans, including three former top executives at i2 Technologies Inc., have launched a new company designed to find and re-deploy software intellectual property that has been orphaned in the economic slump.

Enterprise resource planning technology is in the midst of a revival as businesses streamline internal operations to survive the current economic slump and prepare for a B2B future.

One of the bigger challenges facing manufacturing companies is shipping products on time, but typically once products are shipped, the manufacturer's job is done. That's not the case at Equistar Chemicals LP, a petrochemical company that converts chemicals into pellets used to make plastic bags and other products. In polymer processing, lot-to-lot consistency is important, and customers often need to know the exact conditions under which a rail-size shipment of plastic pellets was manufactured.

In what is being billed as an integration first, MasterCard International Inc. and SPS International Ltd. have launched a software product designed to connect procurement information from MasterCard purchasing cards to popular ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems, starting with SAP AG R/3.

Existing Ariba Inc. customers should minimize their investment in the company's e-procurement solution, and potential customers should select that solution only if they are protected from fallout from a possible Ariba acquisition, according to a Gartner Group Inc. report scheduled to be released this week.

MasterCard International Inc. and SPS International Ltd. have launched a new software product designed to integrate procurement information from MasterCard purchasing cards with popular ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems, including SAP R/3, the companies announced Monday.