Sixty percent of supply chain managers say their organization is too focused on internal, tactical concerns to be able to collaborate effectively with external partners, at a time when globalization is forcing companies to view and use their supply chain more effectively.

LLamasoft, a vendor of supply-chain design software, has acquired Barloworld's Supply Chain Software Division.

LLamasoft has partnered with Chainalytics to offer an application for providing freight market information to supply-chain designers, modelers and analysts.

LLamasoft, a vendor of supply-chain design software, has introduced Supply Chain Sherpa.