Archive for August, 2008
How do you plan to grow your business moving forward? I’ve been asking Logistics Service Providers (3PLs) this question for many years, and their answers usually include one or all of the following strategies:
- Expand globally. In the past, European LSPs looked to North America for growth and vice versa. Today, all LSPs have their sights on Asia.
- Introduce new services. Warehousing firms have added transportation
i2 getting acquired is not a surprise, since the company effectively announced it was up for sale several months ago. The list of potential acquirers included SAP (who recently settled a patent dispute with i2), Oracle, Infor, JDA, IBM, and a few others. Two years ago, JDA acquired Manugistics, i2’s biggest rival back in the late 90s and early 2000s, when both companies were at the height of… Continue reading
