Tecsys Inc. has developed the OR Inventory Manager, to aid in the management of supply chains supporting hospital operating rooms.

Vanderlande Industries has launched an automated storage and retrieval system, dubbed Quickstore Microshuttle.

Infor has developed version 6.6 of Infor Demand Planning.

E2open has acquired icon-scm, a vendor of supply-chain planning and collaboration software.

Aaron Corcoran, director of logistics with KUKA Systems Corp. North America, discusses how automation is transforming order fulfillment, as companies seek to forge "smarter" supply chains.

A new company called Zenput is offering a mobile application for collecting product data.

Microsoft is acquiring Blue Horseshoe's Warehousing for AX (WAX) and Transportation for AX (TRAX) applications.