It's called the multiplier effect, and it describes how the recall of a single ingredient in the food supply chain can have a huge impact on manufacturers, retailers and brands - not to mention the health and safety of consumers.

IntelliChief, LLC, a vendor of automated document-management and enterprise content management (ECM) applications, has created business planning with IntelliChief Analytics.

Logility Inc., a provider of supply-chain optimization and retail-planning applications, has acquired AdapChain.

Many Americans appear to believe that the exposure of their personal information on the internet is inevitable. But European regulators are having none of that.