Description: ToolsGroup, a global provider of demand-driven inventory optimization solutions, announced recently that it has entered into an agreement with Kidde Residential & Commercial to provide solutions to help drive its sales and operations planning (S&OP) process.

Description: RedPrairie Corporation, a world leading consumer driven optimization company, announced recently that Ingram Micro Inc., the world's largest technology distributor, is implementing RedPrairie's Workforce Management application to improve productivity and gain visibility into performance at their distribution centers across the United States.

Description: ESRI invites executives, managers, and other decision makers to tune in to an online seminar this month and learn about the bottom-line business advantages of adopting a geographic information system (GIS) solution.

Description: ESRI will demonstrate the new mashup capabilities of ArcGIS 9.3 at the Where 2.0 conference in Burlingame, California, May 13 and 14, 2008. The JavaScript APIs included in ArcGIS 9.3 give end users the capability to combine geographic information system (GIS)-based Web services from ArcGIS Server with other Web content.

Description: Recently, Penske Logistics announced it has begun a transition to manage the dedicated fleet for Cardinal Health's medical supply chain business.

Description: Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company LLC), operator of the world's first all-plastic pool with embedded RFID tags, announced recently that Cott Corporation will begin to ship its popular beverages on iGPS' innovative pallets.

Description: PAR Technology Corporation , recently announced that Ryder System, Inc. Ryder) has selected PAR Logistics Management Systems as its Trailer Tracking solution. Under the terms of the selection, Ryder plans to roll out PAR's enterprise solution for dry trailers, refrigerated trailers and refrigerated straight trucks.

Description: Culver's, a Wisconsin-based restaurant chain, is using ESRI geographic information system (GIS) software to optimize store locations and demographics when assisting franchisees in site selection. Culver's is rated the best burger chain in the country according to the 2007 annual survey of diners conducted by Restaurants & Institutions magazine.

Description: Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire the business of AddVal Technology Inc. (AddVal), a privately owned provider of end-to-end shipment-management products and services to global freight-management and airline-cargo companies.

Description: RedPrairie Corporation, a world leading consumer driven optimization company, introduced a new release of its E²e supply chain execution solution suite. The enhanced solution provides new and upgraded capabilities for better flow of goods, tighter integration between warehouse and transportation management solutions, advanced recall and quality assurance capabilities and new parcel manifesting functionality.

Description: Infor recently announced that it has donated software licenses for Infor SCM Network Design, supply chain planning and analysis software used by some of the world's most recognizable companies, to the University of Arkansas. Infor SCM Network Design will be implemented by the Supply Chain Management Research Center in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, as part of its ongoing research into supply chain management.

Description: Management Dynamics, a leading provider of global trade management solutions, recently announced that Global Link Logistics, the leading provider of import logistics services to North American furniture industries, has implemented Management Dynamics' Transportation Management solution to provide its customers with flexible and competitive routing and rate options. This scalable web-based solution has enabled Global Link's sales team to deliver more customized proposals attributing to higher customer service levels and repeat business.

Description: RedPrairie Corporation, a leading consumer driven optimization company, announced recently that JBS Swift & Company, one of the leading processors of fresh beef and pork in the U.S., has upgraded to a new version of RedPrairie Warehouse Management (WMS) in its Grand Island, NE plant/distribution center.

Description: For the second year, ESRI provided geographic information system (GIS) software and staff resources to assist in the design, staging, and judging of the Business Intelligence (BI) Competition at the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) annual National Collegiate Conference held March 27-28, 2008, in Memphis, Tennessee.

Description: LXE Inc., the wireless logistics computing business of EMS Technologies, Inc., announced recently the opening of its new Service Center in Ottawa to provide ongoing service and support for LXE's customer base and network of partners in the Canadian warehouse and logistics markets.

Description: Colorado Springs Utilities Improves Cadastral Data Management Using ArcGIS Survey Analyst Cadastral Editor and Data Model Streamline Processes and Increase Data Accuracy Redlands, California Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) now uses ESRI's ArcGIS Survey Analyst with Cadastral Editor software to improve the creation, maintenance, and updates to cadastral and other survey-related data.

Description: AMEX: MVE Smart Move, Inc., a Denver, CO based logistics company, recently announced the expansion of the services the company provides to Atlas Van Lines, one of the nation's largest and most successful relocation van line groups.

Description: How do we retrace our ecological footprints? Where will the footprints lead? Scientists with the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) are using geographic information system (GIS) software from ESRI to track ecological footprints across the globe.

Description: Three universities have been approved as sites for an ESRI Development Center (EDC), a special opportunity that is part of a new design and development program for geospatial technology. On March 18, at the 2008 ESRI Developer Summit in Palm Springs, California, the first three EDC sites were announced including the University of Redlands and Claremont Graduate University in California as well as University College London in the United Kingdom.

Description: Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company LLC), announced recently that, beginning mid-May, Dole Fresh Vegetables will begin shipping its products on iGPS' all-plastic pallet pool with embedded RFID tags.