Oracle SCM updates analytics and forecasts of delivery times
Oracle introduces a suite of new supply chain management tools for Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM).
Oracle SCM is used by organizations in industry and logistics to streamline supply chains and manufacturing processes. The sectors were hit by the pandemic over the past... Read more
Supply chain crunch affects mast rollout for Vodafone in Europe
The global supply chain crunch has affected almost every industry, including smartphones. Now, it affects the antennas that propagate the signals those phones need.
Vantage Towers AG, a unit spun out of Vodafone Group, makes mobile masts and has said its plans to build new towers are facing issu... Read more
Texas Instruments is worth €150 billion due to global chip shortage
The older company's analog chips are still essential, even in a digital age. Due too the chip shortage every chip is essential.
The number of semiconductors in a modern car can exceed a thousand. As the global chip shortage drags on, car makers find they need chips from older companies like Texa... Read more
91% of IT leaders felt the pandemic’s supply chain disruption effect
Insight Enterprises conducted a survey involving 400 IT decision-makers and found that 95% of them say the impact of the pandemic accelerated organizations’ transformation needs.
The 2022 Insight Intelligent Technology Report found that almost all IT leaders surveyed reported that supply chain... Read more
HPE: supply chain issues have been intensifying
HPE is closing out its 2021 fiscal year but expects that supply chain problems will persist for at least another half a year. CFO Tarek Robbiati said that HP continues to navigate ever-worsening industry-wide supply chain problems.
Robbiati said that materials are in short supply as logistics co... Read more
IDC says global PC market is slowing down
A gridlocked supply chain saw Q3 record a US slowdown in spending on PCs, as global PC shipments expand. Preliminary figures released by IDC show that sales into the channel rose by 3.9% to 86.652 million units, marking the sixth consecutive quarter of growth.
However, it is also the first time ... Read more
Businesses are failing in supply chain protection
IT professionals believe that the coming year will see supply chain attacks surge, which should be the warning system vendors need to tighten up their security. When it comes to holding their software partners accountable, businesses seem reluctant.
The verdict comes from a new report by Venafi,... Read more
VMware previews App Dev platform for Kubernetes
VMware has unveiled a Tanzu Application Platform that gives developers a framework to build applications that can be run on clusters that are running a distribution of Kubernetes.
Microsoft and VMware have also unveiled an enterprise-tier version of a Spring framework that can be used to build J... Read more
Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement is about more than reducing costs
Cost reduction has traditionally been an important part of business operations when it comes to procurement. In the coming period, it may get an extra boost. After all, many organizations have had to invest heavily in the past year and a half to deal with the consequences of the corona crisis. Yet ... Read more
Docker announces updates to tackle security and productivity issues
Docker unveiled Docker Development Environments, a new tool that enables developers to automatically create a virtual instance of their development environment that can be shared with other developers on the same team.
The company announced the product at the online DockerCon Live 2021 event on ... Read more