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by Diane Himes, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 4:44:03 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | The new release of the software provider’s SCM Network Design product incorporates carbon footprinting capabilities aimed at helping manufacturers assess their green quotient. |
| Keywords: | Carbon footprint, carbon footprinting, green tech |
Enterprise software provider Infor today announced general availability of a new version of its SCM Network Design product, a modeling tool used to help manufacturers and other companies evaluate options for optimizing their supply chains for cost, revenue, and service while reducing their carbon footprints.
Infor’s SCM Network Design works by analyzing variables within manufacturing and distribution facilities as well as available transportation options across a supply network.
“Network Design helps users make decisions about which products to produce at which sites, which suppliers to use, and how to [transport] those products,” said Wilson Rothschild, Infor’s director of supply chain management, in an interview with Managing Automation.
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