alliances
GT Nexus has been selected by Renault
SA to provide a cloud supply chain
platform that will support the company’s expansion into international markets. … J.B. Hunt Transport Services
Inc. has selected LLamasoft’s Supply
Chain Guru design software for simulating and optimizing its supply chain
networks. … APL Logistics and
VAS-COR have formed a joint venture to
serve the supply chain needs of the
automotive sector in India. … SLGA
(Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming
Authority) has chosen Tecsys’s
warehouse and distribution management
software solutions to upgrade its technology platform. … U.S. Xpress
Enterprises, a provider of transportation services throughout North
America, has announced a merger of
the company’s Arnold Transportation
Services with LinkAmerica Corp., a Fort
Worth, Texas-based truckload and
logistics carrier serving the Southeast
and Southwest. … MIQ Logistics has
signed a new multiyear service agreement with Atlas Tubular, a supplier of
tubular goods to the energy industry.
… U.S. Trailer Holdings LLC will deploy
Asset Intelligence’s Veri Wise Track and
Trace asset management system on a
portion of its trailer fleet. … Quality
Brands of Omaha has implemented C3
Solutions’ C3 Reservations, an online
dock scheduling system, to manage all
of its incoming shipments. … Oil and
gas company Shell has purchased a
global license for Terra Technology’s
Demand Sensing and Multi-Enterprise
Inventory Optimization solutions. …
InfinityQS International Inc. has
formed a strategic partnership with
Keops Technologies Inc., an IT expert
focused on integration and deployment of manufacturing operation
management systems. … Air and
ocean freight company SDV handled
the logistics for the demonstration
tour of Eurocopter’s new X3
Helicopter, an innovative new heli-
copter that combines a main rotor
system with plane propellers. …
Food-service distributor
Upper Lakes Foods Inc.
has installed Jennifer
FoodSelect from Lucas
Systems in its Cloquet
and Northfield, Minn.,
DCs. In addition,
Remington Arms has
extended its use of
Lucas’s Jennifer VoicePlus. …
Ferguson, a distributor of residen-
tial and commercial plumbing sup-
plies, is using Psion’s end-to-end
Managed Services solution to opti-
mize its logistics processes on Psion
EP10 devices. Psion itself is now part
of Motorola Solutions. … Vitronic
Machine Vision Ltd. has been
awarded a multimillion dollar con-
tract to automate the manual pro-
cessing of flats and small parcels for
a large parcel and post
customer. … Food ingre-
dients manufacturer
Kerry Foods has pur-
chased Blue Tree
Systems’ temperature
probe. The probe moni-
tors and verifies cargo
temperatures. …
