MELBOURNE, Australia – 2 March 2020 BluJay Solutions, a global provider of supply chain applications, networks, and data solutions, today announced it has acquired Expedient Software. Expedient is a leading provider of customs and forwarding software for the logistics market in Australia and New Zealand. With the acquisition, BluJay broadens its customs and forwarding technology … Read More
First to offer leading technology solution for e-commerce fulfillment management as a white-label solution to logistics companies. Amsterdam, Netherlands, 4th March 2020 – Fulfillment Group, an Amsterdam & Hong Kong-based ecommerce technology Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company founded in 2016, launches new cloud platform that allows logistics companies to develop and scale B2C and B2B e-commerce fulfillment. … Read More
Nowadays, it’s as if every article about digitalization is casually peppered with the terms ‘artificial intelligence’ and ‘machine learning’. They are almost always used together and without any extra explanation. I’ve recently spent some time reading up on the subject to finally understand how the two differ. The term artificial intelligence (AI) originates from computer science and … Read More
For many companies, the most important supply chain process, Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), appears to be at a standstill. The cross-functional matching of supply and demand and its translation into the financial budget is crucial for producers, wholesalers and retailers. However, recent research among European manufacturers of a wide range of products has shown … Read More
I often get asked ‘Which software should my company use for sales & operations planning (S&OP) and integrated business planning (IBP)?’ Les Brookes, CEO of consultancy firm Oliver Wight EAME (who came up with S&OP in the 1980s and, more recently, IBP too), fittingly summed up the difference during a recent supply chain conference in … Read More