ARL Consulting releases planning tool for marine terminals keeping track of multiple resources on shore- and sea side depending on vessels ETA/ETD be it terminal facilities, equipment, people or event-driven resources.

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In today’s turbulent global economy, manufacturers seeking the refuge of offshore markets to trim labor costs are severely underestimating the requirements for the ongoing management of their outsourced processes. Anyone who doubts this assertion need only look as far as the 2007 headlines about Mattel and other U.S. companies that were bitten by defects in products outsourced to China and other “low-cost” countries.

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In a recent report, Steve Banker of ARC Advisory Group notes that much of the warehouse management system (WMS) software on the market has become “bloated” with too much functionality.

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Enterprises are widely experimenting with Web 2.0 tools and Service-Oriented technologies to expand the collaborative reach of the organization, according to the results of a pulse survey of more than 100 participants attending the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. According to the survey conducted by Capgemini U.S LLC the market trend with the greatest impact on business is globalization (28%), followed by increased competition (26%), and compliance (19%).

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Enterprise Resource Planning vendors such as SAP and Oracle are making inroads into the supply chain, transportation and logistics solutions market. According to John Fontanella, Vice President of research at AMR Research Inc., ERP vendors now claim about 50 percent of the supply chain technology market.

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ARL Consulting announces the release of their ARL e-Quote Platform, which allows transport providers to give freight quotes along with schedules on-line to their customers and partners. The ARL e-Quote Platform is the second module after ARL e-Schedule in a series of commercial e-business offerings on the arl-shipping.com portal, building up to a full e-Yield solution. The platform can be requested from ARL’s portal for shipping solutions, arl-shipping.com.

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On-demand TMS has proven to be an economical, yet robust solution to transportation management issues. Now on-demand’s popularity is growing as systems become more sophisticated, moving it well beyond the light planning and optimization features on which it was founded.

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I often get to sit down with large company CEOs to talk about new technology. These days, the topic of conversation frequently turns to Web 2.0–how to sell insurance, or aircraft parts, or cars when the 30-second TV spot and the one-page newspaper ad are dying. Here’s what I tell them:

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WhereNet Corp., the developer of wireless applications for the tracking and management of logistics assets, has made generally available version 5.0 of WhereSoft yard.

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Over the past fifty years, manufacturing has changed from individual companies producing and distributing their own products, to a global network of suppliers, manufacturers, and distributors. The challenges for many manufacturers have become how to track supply chain costs and how to deal with manufacturing costs throughout the production of goods. Software vendors, however, are now addressing these manufacturing challenges by developing new applications.

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