The new global marketplace has brought many benefits for consumers, while also ushering in new levels of expectations for manufacturers, which can complicate the delivery of products.

JDA Software Group Inc. has made a number of enhancements to its workforce-management (WFM) and all-channel commerce applications.

Hamish Brewer, chief executive officer of JDA Software, was giving a speech at the Economic Club of Phoenix last year, when the topic of global inventory levels came up. The question he posed: How much stuff is currently in transit or socked away in warehouses the world over? The answer: Nobody really knows.

Forte has released version 2.0 of its warehouse-control system (WCS).

Peter Schnorbach, senior director of product management with Manhattan Associates, explains how labor-management systems have evolved to become tools for determining optimum D.C. staffing levels.