supply chain

Epicor Acquires Acadia Software to Empower Frontline Workers

Epicor has acquired Acadia Software to enhance its enterprise solutions for frontline workers in manufacturing and supply chain, aiming to provide real-time insights and digital guidance that boost productivity and efficiency.

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Analytics and AI

Infor Targets Business Velocity with Added Process Mining, ESG and GenAI Capabilities

Infor has announced major updates to its CloudSuite portfolio, introducing innovations like a GenAI Assistant, process mining capabilities, and ESG Strategy Management, aimed at enhancing industry-specific software solutions to promote productivity, operational efficiency, and data-driven decision-making.

Analytics and AI

QAD Redzone Debuts New AI Capabilities to Drive Manufacturing Productivity Gains

QAD Redzone has launched Champion AI, an advanced suite of predictive and prescriptive AI capabilities aimed at enhancing productivity and collaboration on the manufacturing floor, ultimately transforming how frontline teams address operational challenges.

Business Process Management and Automation

Epicor enhances frontline worker solutions with Acadia acquisition

Epicor has acquired Acadia Software to enhance its industry-specific ERP solutions with the latter's Connected Worker solutions, enabling real-time insights and guidance for frontline workers to boost productivity and efficiency in the supply chain and manufacturing sectors.

Analytics and AI

QAD’s new scheduling and AI tools to lift manufacturers’ productivity

QAD has introduced new scheduling and AI enhancements to its Adaptive ERP application, including advanced scheduling solutions and a generative AI assistant named Champion, to help manufacturing and supply chain businesses improve productivity and navigate modern business complexities.

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Supply Chain Management

Sage strengthens supply chain solutions with Anvyl’s acquisition

Sage has acquired New York-based technology firm Anvyl to enhance its supply chain software capabilities, aiming to provide small and mid-sized businesses with improved operational efficiency and visibility across the supply chain.

Supply Chain Management

SMBs to benefit from Acumatica and Netstock’s expanded business offering

Acumatica has expanded its partnership with Netstock, enabling approximately 10,000 small- and medium-sized businesses to access the Predictor IBP solution on the Acumatica Marketplace, which enhances supply chain planning and efficiency, reduces costs, and helps optimize operations.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Restoring Supply Chains: How Cloud ERP Helped Autokiniton when Disaster Struck

Following the EF3 tornado in March 2020 that damaged Autokiniton's Eastgate facility in Tennessee, the company quickly implemented its disaster recovery plan, leveraging QAD Cloud ERP to restore operations and ensure continuity in fulfilling customer commitments within 36 hours.

Automation

Quickly and Decisively – How to Become an Adaptive Enterprise

Simon Ellis of IDC emphasizes that achieving digital maturity through a holistic approach enables adaptive enterprises to react quickly and decisively to disruptions, ultimately leading to improved financial performance.

Supply Chain Management

5 Ways to Avoid Risk When Moving on to a New ERP

Manufacturers often hesitate to upgrade their ERP systems due to fears of disruption and complexity, but by proactively addressing risks such as business disruption, system dependency, compliance, and costs, they can successfully transition to more efficient systems.

Supply Chain Management

Steve Murphy: Returning the engine to search

Epicor CEO Steve Murphy on putting the engine back into search, and solving the supply chain challenge by leaning on ERP.

Supply Chain Management

Epicor Grow transforms supply chains through AI-enhanced ERP

Epicor unveils Epicor Grow, merging AI and BI to revolutionize ERP, offering contextual insights tailored for supply chain optimization.

A supply chain shipment in the water with birds.

Analytics and AI

Shipping off to AI! SAP debuts new AI capabilities in supply chain solutions

In response to the mounting pressures facing manufacturers worldwide, SAP has announced new AI advancements in its supply chain solutions.

Supply Chain Management

Where AI and digital twins meet supply chain in Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM

As companies grapple with supply chain challenges, Oracle is enhancing its Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing platform with AI capabilities aimed at optimizing logistics, improving decision-making, and reducing costs, thereby enabling organizations to better anticipate disruptions and foster stronger customer relationships.

Supply Chain Management

SourceDay and Infor to enhance supply chain visibility and control

SourceDay has announced a strategic partnership with Infor to enhance the efficiency of direct spend PO lifecycle management.

Automation

Transforming the Aftermarket Supply Chain

Read the solution brief to learn how to enhance, optimize and streamline supply chains, meet your organization's KPIs with zero-latency solutions, and gain a competitive advantage in the aftermarket space.

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Kuehne+Nagel and Capgemini enter eco-friendly partnership

Kuehne+Nagel and Capgemini's customers will benefit from the partnership due to its decrease customers total logistics costs, reduced carbon emissions and improved resilience to disruptions.

Know what to expect of your supply chain, despite the unexpected

We've learned the hard way to expect the unexpected with our disaster-battered supply chains. Let's shift to resiliency and sustainability.

SAP BTP is out to see sustainability in your supply chain – if you run it right

A transparent supply chain is essential when using the SAP Business Technology Platform – this helps your firm to reach its full potential and expose certain inefficiencies that might be limiting it.

SAP upgrades supply chain solutions to ensure “good corporate citizens”

SAP has unveiled new advancements to its supply chain solutions that generate data-driven insights to enable risk-resilient and sustainable supply chain operations.

Five actions for a sustainable supply chain

Climate change, circular economy, ESG and sustainability have become business priorities and our global supply chains sit right in the middle of these challenges—as a major contributor to the problems, and a great area of focus to take action.

AWS Supply Chain app announced at AWS re:Invent 2022

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of AWS Supply Chain, a new application that helps businesses increase supply chain visibility.

Don’t let inflation deflate your business

Inflation is at its highest rate in 40 years. As costs rise, every penny we spend gets scrutinized. Businesses need cost/benefit analyses and to determine the potential ROI of investments.

M&D has a long way to go in protecting the supply chain

Very few manufacturers and distributors seemed invested in supply chain readiness during the pandemic.