Kewill, a leading provider of solutions that simplify global trade and logistics, has announced it is expanding the support and services available for Kewill Reverse Logistics in the Americas region.

Kewill Reverse Logistics provides end to end reverse logistics execution for high technology manufacturers. Furthermore, Kewill is expanding the solution to address the needs of the industrial manufacturing, medical device, and aerospace industries. Kewill Reverse Logistics delivers increased profit and customer retention through a SaaS 2.0 ruleflow execution and optimization engine.

Chainalytics LLC, a supply chain consulting firm focused on enabling fact-based supply chain decisions, announced today a partnership with Oco, Inc, a leading Software-as-a-Service provider of business analytics solutions, to provide supply chain performance, customer analysis and product profitability analytics.
Chainalytics will utilize Oco’s solutions to help clients analyze customer performance and better manage their product portfolios. Oco’s solution will incorporate data from across the extended supply chain.
The combination of Oco’s insightful analytics and Chainalytics’ deep supply chain expertise will provide a comprehensive cost-to-serve solution that identifies unprofitable products and customers, provide visibility to the root causes of variances, and ultimately increase profitability.

“In today’s economic environment, companies can’t afford to have unprofitable customers,” said Tim Brown, Principal, Supply Chain Strategy, Chainalytics. “Oco’s interactive scorecards, what-if dashboards, and drillable reports will help our clients identify opportunities to improve profitability and overall performance.

Chainalytics’ supply chain strategy services have always helped our clients mitigate risks, optimize assets, reduce costs, and incorporate sustainability. Now, clients can utilize our services to not only define, but also enable ongoing processes that support profitable growth.”

TAKE Supply Chain, a developer of supply chain management software, announced today that it has rolle dout a new, software-as-a-service version of its products called OneSCM. The firm said that the new, multi-tenant software platform is targeted at manufacturers and distributors, providing such functions as purchase order and online supplier management, tracking of part numbers, shipments, and bar label printing. The firm said the software is its first, multi-tenant software-as-a-service offering, whichi t will be enhancing over the next several quarters. The firm previously delivered its software as traditional, enterprise software. Pricing on the new offering was not disclosed. TAKE Supply Chain was formerly known as ClearOrbit.

While the intent of much of the global economy is with high aspirations towards a better environment, there are some fast and efficient ways to improve your carbon footprint with the use of smart inventory software for inventory management and a greener supply chain. The key to cooperative parties is to educate and bring on board as many of the company's business participants as possible, whether or not they have made a fully fledged commitment to go-green.

 

The first step to effective reduction of the carbon footprint is to accurately assess where the company stands now. Take careful stock of paper, water and energy costs and build a strategy to cut consumption at every level. Each step forward, no matter how small, sets the company on the pathway to an eco-friendly module that will soon be emulated by others. Perhaps the most influential retailer to take the helm and inspire others was Wal-Mart. The corporate giant set forth a campaign that required all their suppliers to show a report on each company's recycling and reduction of carbon emission efforts, made verifiable by Wal-Mart. Since the plan went into action, Wal-Mart suppliers have shown a valiant effort in lowering their energy consumption and seeking the aid of technology for comprehensive greenhouse solutions.