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by Diane Himes, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 6:23:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    In response to its customers' increasing retail compliance challenges, Sterling Commerce has released two software packages said to help trading partners synchronize transactional data and manage the transport of products through the supply chain. Sterling's Global Data Synchronization Solution (GDS) is said to enable users to create a "single version of the truth" across all product types, an increasingly common requirement from retailers that are seeking data definitional consistency across multi-channel supply chains. Specifically, suppliers can save time and money by only having to enter item descriptions into their order management systems once; they can then be shared with multiple retailers. "Global data synchronization is a real issue between retailers and manufacturers, with [each side of the trading partnership] needing to identify a product accurately," said John Fontanella, an industry analyst with Aberdeen Group in Boston. [Click to continue] |
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