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• Cadre Technologies (WMS, TMS, OMS, ABC, SQL Server, NT/2000) announced new solution called "Cadence", a NEW fulfillment software solution designed to help distributors. Cadence was built as a single system that consolidates critical distribution activities such as warehouse management, order entry, transportation management and activity billing. It was designed to replace the individual host, warehouse and shipping systems which traditionally could not exchange critical data and operate seamlessly.
  
  The Cadence suite of products includes:
  
  Cadence WMS is designed to organize and improve product flow and throughput in distribution and fulfillment centers and manufacturing warehouses. It precisely monitors and controls inventory and work activity at every stage of product movement. It also significantly improves personnel productivity, resource scheduling and customer service.
  
  Cadence TMS enables distributors to automatically ship products more efficiently, more accurately, and in more environments. It combines easy-to-use browser-based software and barcode scanning technology that takes the paperwork, the guesswork and the mistakes out of the even most complex package delivery environment.
  
  Cadence OMS. With this order management system, distributors use the same database that runs the warehouse to serve customers. Sales and customer service representatives know immediately whether products are available, from both local and remote warehouses as well as virtual warehouses. It also feeds customer information to Cadence warehouse and transportation systems in order to achieve and maintain superior levels of service.
  
  Cadence ABS. The Cadence Activity Billing System provides complete tracking and billing of all activities such as receiving, storage, picking, shipping and order capture which are generated by the WMS, TMS and OMS modules. It creates a customizable, detailed schedule of billable and non-billable services including service pricing which produces invoices through customers' accounting systems.
  
  
  
• Clicklogistics, Inc. (Web based TMS) announced the release of Version 2.0 of its web-native transportation management system (TMS), Clicklogistics Online. The system has been enhanced with advanced optimization tools and electronic communications functions. Release 2.0 contains four significant additions including new optimization routines, a carrier mass tender module, Advanced Shipment Notification (ASN) functionality, and a new Vendor Interface.
  
  The optimization routines enable shippers with a variety of operational needs to consolidate shipments and reduce transportation costs. The mass tender module allows shippers to actively manage the carrier tender process. ASN functionality enables customers to send and receive pickup and delivery notifications. Savings from the ASN functionality and the mass tender module come from elimination of EDI/VAN charges, elimination of internal IT spending, and reduced expedited freight costs.
  
  Version 2.0’s Vendor Interface allows Clicklogistics customers to give their vendors limited, secure access to Clicklogistics Online. This feature will have a positive impact on shippers’ ability to enforce compliance to their corporate routing guide.
  
  
  
• Retek (WMS, SCE, Retail) has formed a strategic relationship with G-Log (TMS, Optimization) to offer sophisticated transportation management solutions to retailers worldwide. Retek will incorporate the G-Log solution as part of its end-to-end retail supply chain and logistics offering.
  
  For the first time retailers will be enabled to meet customer service and logistics objectives by managing all orders and shipments, both domestic and international, as a single, integrated global logistics business process across the multi-enterprise supply chain. Leveraging this transportation management solution, retailers will streamline the customer order process and improve the speed of order fulfillment.
  
  “We’ve been looking for the right partner to provide the best transportation management solution to our retail customers and G-Log fits the bill,” said Steve Ladwig, Retek president and CEO. “G-Log offers advanced capabilities and will be a strong complement to our rich, retail-specific functionality.”
  
  “G-Log is very pleased to be partnering with the leading provider of application software to the retail industry,” said Mitch Weseley, president and CEO, G-Log. “Combining Retek’s expertise and experience in retail with G-Log’s advanced transportation management functionality will give retailers a powerful end-to-end solution.”
  
• Lilly Software (ERP, MRP, WMS, CRM) has two announcements - (1) VISUAL eBusiness 3.0 delivers comprehensive web utility and (2) VISUAL eBusiness NOW offers cost-effective ASPoption
  
  "VISUAL eBusiness version 3.0 supports B2B (Business-to-Business) and B2C
  (Business-to-Consumer) transactions for both make-to-stock and make-to-order environments.
  
  Lilly Software is offering both a Foundation and an Extended Edition option for VISUAL eBusiness version 3.0. Lilly includes the Foundation module with its core functionality in the VISUAL Enterprise product suite. This module provides VISUAL users with the essential features to quickly set up storefronts and allow their customers to access product listings by category, product searches, product pricing, detailed parts specifications, and part availability, as well as lists of substitute and cross-selling items.
  
  Lilly offers VISUAL eBusiness Extended Edition. This package complements the Foundation capabilities, allowing companies to further customize their sites and post customer-specific promotional items, identify top-selling items, assign shopping carts, and personalize shopping experiences to individual preferences. Other features include enhanced searching capabilities, shipment tracking capability, and an account management option. Extended Edition enables online customers to create multiple wish lists, request quotations (RFQs) and estimates, and provides options for a configurable view and express entry. These features empower customers, allowing them to control their shopping experience.
  
  VISUAL eBusiness version 3.0 will be available October 2001.
  
  
  
• Logistics.com Inc. (TMS) launched OptiYield Network Dashboard, that helps carriers wisely decide on loads based on network & profitability. It has a web-enabled interface to the powerful OptiYield suite of decision support solutions. Combined with OptiYield Profit Analyzer, Network Dashboard empowers decision-makers at trucking companies with instantaneous profitability and forecasting information.
  
  "Trucking companies face the ongoing challenge of having to make rapid decisions about whether or not to accept freight from shippers and how much to bid on the freight," said Mitch Hixon, vice president, transportation sales for Logistics.com. "The combination of Network Dashboard and Profit Analyzer brings this information to the fingertips of the entire organization via a simple user interface that makes it much easier to solve business problems and reach profitability goals."
  
  "In the most simplistic terms, OptiYield Network Dashboard allows our frontline decision-makers to negotiate pricing from a strong, knowledge-driven position," said Monte Manus, vice president of Averitt Express's Truckload Division. "We are extremely happy with the Network Dashboard interface and view it as a competitive advantage. The application gives our entire company instant visibility into our most profitable customers, regions, lanes and loads. Our decision-makers use this information to improve overall network profitability."
  
  
  
• Provia Software (WMS, TMS) and DigiTerra, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of CIBER, Inc. (NYSE: CBR), announced a vendor alliance agreement and will offer a joint implementation methodology using Provia’s Tier 1 application suites of supply chain execution and collaboration products, including ViaWare, ViaView and FourSite to customers.
  
  The agreement combines DigiTerra’s 20 years of experience in integrating enterprise and e-business application solutions and delivering complete supply chain solutions to the market with Provia’s application suites to provide supply chain execution solutions for customers. This includes services related to supply chain strategy, system selection, operational assessment, application and system integration, project management, supply chain product solutions, and technology solutions (RF, printer, and platform).
  
  
• Viewlocity - www.viewlocity.com - (SCEM) announced general availability of the TradeSync(TM) 3.0 Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM) suite. New language translation capabilities enable all users to access screens and data in the language of their choice. Multiple screen configurations allow Viewlocity's customers to implement as many different look and feel combinations as necessary to support users across any extended supply chain. Combined with the multi-lingual capability, this means that even a single individual at a satellite operation can get a tailored user experience that best meets their specific business needs.
  
  With the introduction of Order Collaboration, Viewlocity expands the value of TradeSync(TM) by empowering users to correct supply chain deviations in real time. Order Collaboration enables trading partners of all levels of sophistication to participate in managing inter-enterprise supply chain processes. Updating status for all parties to review, changing orders, creating orders and canceling orders in response to detected exceptions elevates TradeSync beyond other decision support tools by delivering actionable problem solving.
  
  
  

• "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work." --Thomas Edison
  

• A hot-tempered man stirs up dissension,
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