The sales and operations planning process brings great value to an organization, but companies need to take a fresh approach in order to ensure more efficient planning cycles, says Kathyleen Beveridge, director of sales operations with Qualcomm.

Fundamental shifts in supply-chain management have significantly altered the planning paradigm. JP Swanson, global supply chain analyst with Dow AgroSciences, talks about how his company has adapted to the change, and improved planning across multiple levels of its supply network.

Accenture has launched a Ports Center of Excellence in Hong Kong.

In the age of the Internet of Things, how can companies extract meaningful insights from the mass of data that is available to them today? We get answers from Yogesh Amraotkar of the Innovation and Solutions Group of Cognizant.

Logility Inc., a supplier of advanced retail planning and supply chain optimization solutions, has released Logility Voyager Retail Optimization V5.4. This latest release extends the value of an integrated retail and supply chain platform and delivers new merchandise planning views, extended allocation functionality and robust assortment planning capabilities, says Mike Edenfield, president and CEO of Logility.

CommerceHub, provider of a software platform for electronic commerce, is acquiring Mercent, a Seattle, Wash.-based vendor of retail technology.