Supplier News

  1. Tomax And Revionics Announce Strategic Partnership Benefitting Grocery Retailers And Wholesalers 12/3/2008
    Tomax Corporation based in Salt Lake City, Utah and Revionics Incorporated, based in Granite Bay, California, recently announced plans to partner together in two key areas of need for grocery retailers; Workforce Optimization and Price Optimization.
  2. Netkey To Showcase Interactive Digital Signage At KioskCom And The Digital Signage Show In New York 10/16/2008
    Netkey, a global provider of software for the operation and management of self-service kiosks and digital signage, recently announced that the company will showcase new interactive digital signage applications at KioskCom and the Digital Signage Show in New York City, Oct. 15-16. Netkey will be exhibiting in booth number 307.
  3. Redprairie Expands Operations With New Development Center In Buenos Aires 10/1/2008
    RedPrairie Corporation, a world leading consumer driven optimization company, and its partner NetLogistiK, have signed an agreement to further expand into Argentina with a new development center in Buenos Aires.
  4. Kaplan Early Learning Improves Customer Service With RedPrairie Warehouse Management 4/9/2008
    In the late 1990s, Kaplan Early Learning made the commitment that a well-run DC running on a best-of-breed WMS was a requirement to fully meet customer needs. While many of its customers are large schools with sophisticated DCs, quite often they are smaller schools and daycares. To Kaplan Early Learning, well-organized shipments let the teachers and parents that make up their customer base focus on the most important part of their business – educating children. Submitted by RedPrairie
  5. UniDrug Distribution Group (UDG) Improves Overall Operations With RedPrairie Warehouse Management 4/9/2008
    UniDrug Distribution Group (UDG) is a leading provider of warehousing and distribution services for major healthcare companies. UDG’s wide range of quality solutions makes it the prewholesaling company of choice for a growing client base. The company provides a one-stop-shop for all warehousing and logistics functions with value-added features tailored to each customer’s unique needs. In addition to its 3rd party logistics services, the company offers a complete order-to-cash solution for the majority of its clients. Submitted by RedPrairie
  6. Execution Management — Maximizing Store Productivity 4/8/2008
    Retailers have spent millions of dollars defining their brand, their pricing strategies, implementing key supply chain processes by improving forecasting and replenishment activities, and have initiated large IT initiatives to make sure they do all these activities as accurately as possible. Most of these initiatives are concerned with the items a retailer sells. Because of competition, there’s been a huge focus on making sure the correct items are ordered, shipped, replenished, allocated, promoted, priced, and delivered to the store in the most cost effective manner possible. But, every bit as critical as these “merchandising processes” are in defining a retailers’ brand and market, equally important is to properly execute corporate strategies in the stores. A strategy without execution or with poor execution is equivalent to having no strategy at all. Submitted by RedPrairie
  7. Pennsylvania Grocer Adopts World-Class Self-Service Solution 2/26/2008
    Giant Foods of Carlisle, PA., offers it customers what most grocers do: food, household items, a deli, some specialty items, a pharmacy. What it didn’t have was a way to unite the various departments in a way that made shopping easier for their customers, and less costly to provide. They looked to self-service and integration for a solution. Submitted by St. Clair
  8. Six Steps To Secure Global Supply Chains 2/18/2008
    With supply chains so crucial to the business health of most companies, it is imperative that your operations be sustained by both preventive medicine and emergency room services. The threats are real and many, so your security and recovery plans must likewise be real and multi-faceted. In this paper we have proposed a six-step process for dealing with these threats to mitigate as much as possible the risks they pose to you supply chain and business health. Following these six steps will also invariably make your supply chain more agile and efficient, thus turning supply chain security from a necessary evil to a source of real ROI. Submitted by RedPrairie
  9. 5 Keys To A Successful Shopping Experience For Your Customers 2/11/2008
    The months after the busy Christmas holiday season are an excellent time for retailers to evaluate the successes and failures of their supply chains. The fundamentals that drive retailers to make sure they are prepared for this all-important selling season also apply to other busy times in the year. Submitted by RedPrairie
  10. Retail Software: RedPrairie Announces New Execution Management Features For Retailers 1/16/2008
    RedPrairie Corporation, a leading consumer-driven optimization company, recently announced the release of major new enhancements to its Execution Management application, the first execution management software to be fully integrated with a workforce management solution.