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| IDII News 2008 WMS RESEARCH STUDY Has Started - ERP & WMS Software Vendors are invited to participate! - - - Download application at http://www.idii.com/2008WMSRESEARCH.pdf now!Deadline has been extended... "Glossary of Supply Chain Terminology" is now ONLINE! Are you a WERC member? Then check it out via the WERC website. IDII has partnered with WERC to provide an ever growing encyclopedia of definitions. Now with crossword puzzles to challenge you! New White Papers - White Paper Index -Suggest A White Paper Navigating the TMS Marketplace - How to select an ASP/SaaS version of a Transportation Management System - from LMS Logistics see http://www.lmslogistics.comCurrent and future green transportation and logistics strategies - http://www.eft.com/supplychain/free_report.shtml?source=idii TOP ISSUES in Hi-Tech & Electronics Supply Chain Report - http://www.eft.com/hitech/free_report.shtml?source=idii Technology & Software Product News Accellos Acquires Maximum Data Solutions. Maximum Data Solutions, Inc. is an ISV of Automated Data Collection hardware and software for companies that utilize the Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP packages. Founded in 1999 by David Carleton and Jeffrey Wright. Maximum Data Solutions is a Microsoft Dynamics GP partner. This acquisition further expands Accellos' capabilities as a leader in the supply chain WMS market. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.Activant Solutions relesease new Prophet 21 version 11.5. New features include: * Portal View each time a new module is opened, which, when enabled, populates with role- and module-specific information that allows users to quickly view their open tasks and activities, as well as open quotes and open orders. • Enhanced Commission Functionality -- Enhanced commission module functionality allows commissions to be calculated based on the order type, adjustments to be made for terms and late payments, and includes support for commission splits. • Modify Existing Financial Statements -- Integration between Prophet 21 and Microsoft Excel has been enhanced to improve auditing accuracy by offering the freedom to insert, remove, or reposition lines on any Excel spreadsheet associated with a financial statement. • Calculate Pricing by Product Group Profit Margin -- To ensure that all items within a given product group continue to yield the desired profit margin, the option now exists to specify a gross profit percentage and cost source at the product group level. The solution then recalculates the price of each item within the product group, and when updated, displays the new sales price on all order lines. • Lost Sales Reason Codes -- Lost Sales Reason Codes allow users to track if a sale was lost due to a data entry error, an inventory deficiency, or more, and provide a tremendous amount of insight into how inventory forecasting or internal processes must be altered to improve sale completion. • Margin of Last Sale -- This new setting in pricing and customer maintenance helps to keep margins and profit percentages predictable by enabling users to view the last price a particular customer paid for a particular item, the gross profit percentage earned on the last invoice, and determine whether or not new pricing will be based on the gross profit margin of the last invoice issued. • More Advanta Software, specialist software solutions provider to the 3PL, and logistics markets, announced that Maxwell Group of Logistics Companies has selected Advanta's ATLAS 3PL software solution to streamline operational efficiencies and cater for future growth. Advanta Software is providing Maxwell's with over 30 modules from the ATLAS 3PL software suite covering every aspect of Supply Chain Management and Execution. More specifically, the modules include: warehouse management, freight management, client billing, scan packing, EDI, order processing, sales analysis, purchasing, report generator and distribution requirements planning. AGI Worldwide introduces their new Web Based Retail Distribution and Allocation Module (Java web-based) to help clients further improve operational efficiencies in their warehouse and distribution operations. Allocation is typically executed between the primary systems supporting the warehouse operations and some type of scanning application. Orders that are downloaded via the scanning application are then available to pick. Orders are downloaded order by order and picked accordingly. Information exchange (usually via email) between the customer service department and the warehouse normally facilitates the process of identifying particular allocation of product. Otherwise, the order is processed if an order is available and there is product to fulfill the order. The customer service department uses a variety of informational screens and inbound reports to govern allocation of product among customers. There are a wide range of decision criteria and variables that make up these decisions. With AGI's Advanced Allocation Module, clients can now do the following: * Apply a distribution and reserve for product associated with inbound expected receipts. * Reserve inbound inventory and existing inventory without an order. * Consolidate multi store orders into a summary pick. * Partial ship and then cancel the line for certain customers. * Flag orders to either partial ship or ship complete on an order by order basis. * Backorder short shipped orders accordingly. CDC Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of CDC Corporation (NASDAQ: CHINA) and a provider of industry-specific enterprise software applications and business services, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Milwaukee-based Catalyst International, a leading provider of supply chain execution solutions and services. With approximate annual revenues of (U.S.) $35 million, the acquisition of Catalyst is expected to be immediately accretive to CDC Software upon completion of the acquisition. The CDC family of companies includes CDC Software focused on enterprise software applications and services, CDC Mobile focused on mobile applications, CDC Games focused on online games, and China.com focused on portals for the greater China markets. For more information about CDC Corporation (NASDAQ: CHINA), please visit www.cdccorporation.net and www.cdcsoftware.com Logistics Bureau acquires Dawson Consulting. Microsoft one vote short of fast-track OOXML ISO standardization. See http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070811-microsoft-one-vote-short-of-fast-track-ooxml-iso-standardization.html It quotes "Many ISO member nations are similarly rejecting the OOXML fast-track proposal. Although this is a considerable setback for Microsoft, it merely slows down the ISO standardization process for OOXML; it does not halt it completely.". ZD NET produced "Why Microsoft deserved to lose the OOXML standards vote". See http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=694&tag=nl.e539 for an eye-opener and many many many responses on why or why not OOXML should be a standard! Motek's Priya goes live at Montreal Public Refrigerated Facility. The first installation of Motek's® Priya® Warehouse Management System (WMS) is now live at Spire Group Ltd.'s 2,251,000 cu. ft. Public Refrigerated Warehouse (PRW) facility in Montreal, Canada. Spire Group, through its subsidiaries Everest Cold Storage and Arctic Cold Storage, plans to implement Priya globally over the next five years in Toronto and Calgary, Canada, China, India, Romania, Russia, the United States, and the Ukraine. Editor's note: Interesting - that special functionality is needed for PRW facilities and multi-lingual support will be needed rapidly for many languages. RedPrairie, a world leading consumer driven optimisation company, has expanded its operations in China and opened bigger offices in Shanghai. Dr Ziping Zhang, who leads the Shanghai team, comments, "With RedPrairie's sales, service and development teams now totalling 88 people we needed more space to accommodate us all in one facility. Our new office houses the whole team on a single floor and has state of the art facilities for serving our prestigious clients." SmartOps Releases Dynamic Network Optimization (DNO).Recently, SAP, the largest provider of business software, selected SmartOps MIPO as its Endorsed Business Solution (EBS) and EIO has become the number one investment for several industries. DNO enables customers to plan their inventories, product flows and seasonal logistics strategies in a comprehensive manner by providing tactical outputs that drive efficient replenishment, smart order consolidation, optimized forward deployment and merge center locations by incorporating uncertainty and taking advantage of inherent execution flexibility in existing systems. SYSPRO Announces Real-Time Employee Tracking Solution. SYSPRO ShopClock, a real-time, data collection solution that captures employee time and attendance as well as the time spent on jobs and operations and materials issued. SYSPRO ShopClock features flexible setup options that enable companies to configure shift rules to match shop floor labor requirements. SYSPRO ShopClock automates the posting of labor transactions to the SYSPRO Work in Progress (WIP) module and optionally adjusts inventory records to reflect materials issued in real-time. An on-screen GANTT Chart provides management with up-to-latest-second "view" of shop floor labor activities.The horizontal bars on the GANTT Chart are color-coded to show which operations are complete and partially finished as well as those which are over-budget and where time spent has been non-productive. SYSPRO ShopClock also posts expenses to the appropriate General Ledger accounts. SYSPRO ShopClock instantly verifies "time clocking" against the SYSPRO database to ensure validity. Clocking "on/off" is fast and dependable with prompts to guide the employee with immediate warning messages and audible buzzes if the employee makes a mistake. SYSPRO ShopClock enables shifts, labor rates and overtime pay to be defined for any number of days in advance. SYSPRO ShopClock utilizes PCs with barcode readers and/or ComputerWise ET 215 terminals, whichever is best suited to a company's environment. Scripture to Ponder - List of Scriptures to Ponder from prior issues. "He who walks with integrity walks securely." - Proverbs 10:9Famous Quotes to Ponder - List of Quotes to Ponder from prior issues. "The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it." - Theodore RooseveltWebsites To Check Out Inspirational Business Quotes
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