BJC HealthCare joins with Cardinal Health and Cook Medical in a three-way pilot to apply RFID tags to items at the supplier stage. Will their success goad a technologically backward industry to follow suit, and eliminate billions of dollars of waste from the supply chain?

Synchrono LLC, a provider of manufacturing software, has released version 6.0 of SyncOperations, its manufacturing intelligence system built on Savigent.

Insight Inc., a vendor of software for supply-chain design, has added a data-analysis and visualization module to its SAILS software.

Accenture has launched the Accenture Analytics Applications Platform.

Steve Lovejoy, senior vice president for the Starbucks global supply chain, discusses initiatives that the company has under way to meet the "whenever, wherever" demands of today's consumers as well as projects aimed at understanding the consumer of tomorrow.

Colman Roche, principal with CRE, offers a high-level perspective of current technological trends in the supply chain.