Retailers increasingly are using customized packaging to meet the preferences of customers in specific stores, regions or channels, says Jason Tham, CEO of Nulogy. This work often is outsourced by brand manufacturers and Nulogy has developed software to link and streamline the process.

Today's businesses need to go beyond visibility to full transparency, says Nancy Marino, partner at Columbus Consulting, whose clients are mostly retailers. This means using technology to focus the performance of independent silos on corporate KPIs, thus improving performance, she says.

Oracle Corp. has enhanced the Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud with a pair of new products, Oracle Order Management Cloud and Oracle Global Order Promising Cloud.

Nilam Ganenthiran, vice president of business development and strategy with Instacart, explains how traditional retailers can work with e-commerce marketplaces -- and compete against them.

JDA Software Group Inc. has added functionality to JDA Order Promiser, software in support of retail supply chains.

What is supply-chain segmentation? How can it help companies to better manage the flow of product and services, both upstream from suppliers and downstream to customers? Jennifer Loveland, research director of Gartner, has some answers.