Big business could be saving millions of dollars per year - a full margin point or more - on their indirect spend: areas like IT, logistics, marketing, and energy that may not be a part of a business's core product, but have a big impact on the bottom line.
Robert Byrne, CEO of Terra Technology, discusses highlights of Terra's 2012 benchmarking study on forecasting, which is based on raw data collected from the major CPG companies that are Terra's customers. Byrne explains why forecast accuracy is moving in the wrong direction and what companies can do to correct this trend.
The Prophesy division of Accellos Inc. is now including the Drive Axle mobile scanning application of Eleos Technologies, LLC in its Prophesy Dispatch suite of software for trucking and fleet management.
Ryder System Inc. has created a mobile application of RydeSmart 3.0, its onboard telemetrics system for tracking truck fleets, for the iPhone and iPad.
AirClic, a provider of cloud-based software for mobile supply chain and logistics operations, has released version r12.4 of Transport Perform, its transportation-management system (TMS) application.
