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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedAPS Technology: Powering Supply Chain Management.(Advanced Planning and Scheduling software for business-to-business software)(Technology Information)
Enterprise Systems Journal, September, 1999 by Cauthen, Rich
Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) software is expected to impact the exploding US business-to-business e-commerce sector. The technology, although not familiar to many users, organizes supply-chain management (SCM). Also discussed are the more established Material Requirements Planning (MRP) process, and whether ERP is a necessary tool for APS.
Business-to-business e-commerce is approaching hypergrowth in the U.S. market. As early adopters of e-commerce have concentrated on "sell-side" commerce, linkages designed to address "buy-side" commerce and business planning collaboration are rapidly taking shape. Certainly, the front-end Internet marketplace is driving a huge share of this growth, but the back-end planning and fulfillment technologies are catching up fast....
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