Catalyst International, Inc. has released its CatalystCommand Labour Management software product, encompassing workforce performance reporting for the lean enterprise.

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The American Trucking Associations (ATA) last week criticized a New York City proposal to charge motorists for driving into Lower Manhattan. City officials say the plan would cure gridlock and pollution, but the ATA believes such schemes are not only unfair, but ignore real transportation needs.

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This is the first such relationship forged by IFS, which demonstrates SEEBURGER’s commitment and capabilities to deliver complementary EDI solutions that fully exploit the potential business benefits and return on investment that customers can gain from market-leading business software systems.

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Agistix, a provider of proprietary supply chain software it refers to as Logistics Management Automation (LMA), announced today it has released Agistix Spring ?07, a Web-based, on-demand platform that provides shippers with end-to-end visibility for all shipments in order to control logistics costs and bridges the gap between transportation management system (TMS)-driven planning and optimization and real world logistics processes.

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HFG, which specialises in the engineering and fabrication of large and complex structures for the global offshore oil and gas industry, has selected IFS Applications as its new enterprise applications system

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IBS ran a survey at the London Book Fair to establish the real business trends and concerns for the publishing industry (see results below).

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TranSystems, a full-service transportation infrastructure and management consulting company, and ESYNC, a leading strategic supply chain consulting firm, announced the definitive agreement for a merger this week. This transaction will not only allow ESYNC to address transportation from a global systems perspective, but its strong facilities expertise gives TranSystems the supply chain visibility andnetwork optimization skills they were lacking.

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The Cabinet Council of the Republic of Panama announced yesterday it has approved a proposal made by the board of directors of the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) to restructure the Canal?s pricing system and certain regulations.

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The best firefighter is often the arsonist. That was one of the learnings Jay Fortenberry shared with his audience at this week?s 30th annual conference of the Warehousing Education and Research Council. He wasn?t advocating crime, but as vice president of supply chain integration for Honeywell, he?s learned the importance of burning bridges to the past. He doesn?t want logistics managers to go back to where Honeywell was with its old supply chain infrastructure.

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Carload freight and intermodal traffic on United States railroads were both down for the week ending April 21, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported yesterday.

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