This week I spoke to Mr. Prasad Raju at Invensoft Technologies and got a catch up on its activities. Invensoft provides IT solutions for commodity businesses including software products like Invensoft-XBS© which is a Unified Commodity Management Platform offering Commodity Management (CM), CTRM and 3PL (Third Party Logistics) and...
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I recently spoke with John Crew, Director at Scalable. Scalable provide a Commodity Management solution on the Microsoft AX platform. Scalable has been very busy working on a number of initiatives over the last several months including a major project to upgrade its On-Premise Scalable Commodity Solution to...
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Invensoft Technologies has become a bronze level sponsor of the 2016 CTRMConference and we thank them for their support. In fact, this is the third straight year that Invensoft has sponsored the conference. Invensoft Technologies is an IT Company providing Software Solutions for Commodity Business in Agricultural Commodities,...
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The 2016 CTRMConference to be held in London on October 27th, will commence with a presentation by Mr. Gavin Serkin, Founder & Managing Editor of Frontier Funds and author of Frontier ~ Exploring the Top Ten Emerging Markets of Tomorrow (Bloomberg/ Wiley, 2015). The topic will be “Commodities...
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Consultants and System Integrators can be extremely influential in selecting CTRM software and so their views and knowledge of the vendor landscape is of particular interest. Managing, as they do, any number of RFP and RFI processes, consultants and integrators play a role in the final decision. Although,...
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I recently spoke to Ed Pieters at Cadran Consultancy. Cadran is a consultancy that specializes in the Oracle JD Edwards ERP solution and that has developed a CTRM add on for JD Edwards. The company has gained some traction in recent months with a deal with Interfood that...
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Every two years, we undertake the vendor perception study. In fact, we just released the last one. Personally, I find the result fascinating in many ways as there is so much to be gleaned about brand, perceptions and user behavior. Yesterday, I took some time to look at...
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Recently, I noted the switch going on in our industry towards inbound marketing. Vendors are spending much more time these days on their websites, developing thought leadership content and campaigns to draw in prospective buyers. I had particularly noted that this also meant something of a sea change...
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Over the last few weeks, a familiar question keeps coming up. What does “cloud’ mean and what actually is CTRM in the cloud? In fact, in 2014, ComTech attempted some definitions in its CTRM In The Cloud research report kindly sponsored by Aspect, Brady and Generation 10. I...
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ComTech is still seeking responses to our new research project survey – ETRM in a low commodity price environment. We are primarily looking for responses from businesses that use ETRM software (i.e. not vendors or consultants) in Europe and North America. It isn’t a long survey and shouldn’t...
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