Manufacturing Business Technology - February 1, 2003

Supply chain management suites blend supply chain planning and execution functionality into solutions that keep demand and supply in better balance. These suites—which tend to be more loosely coupled than enterprise systems—are offered both by major enterprise suite vendors and software companies that grew out of the supply chain planning space.

• Columnists
• Back Talk
• The thin edge of the wedge
• Up Front
• Cozy up to the gorilla

• Departments
• News at the Front
• One-stop shop
• WhereNet, Elogex deliver TMS/YMS
• Flowing in a different direction
• A week that matters
• WorkWise lives up to its name
• Cyposoft offers up DC development

• Features
• Next-generation CRM
• Collaborative Manufacturing
• When closeness counts
• Demand Management
• Plan for demand
• Enterprise Management
• Both anchor and integrator
• Product Life-Cycle Management
• A new vision
• Warehouse Management
• Solid as ever