Supply Chain View

Paul Currion from humanitarian.info has written recently about Fritz Institute’s Helios Humanitarian Logistics software. This is a fascinating project: Fritz describes Helios as “a comprehensive supply chain technology solution that brings order to disaster relief, helping humanitarian organizations provide aid to people quickly and more efficiently” Paul notes that the first implementation of the system, [...]

BBC News reports today on the way the big ERP vendors are targeting the SME sector. Another article from the same site asks whether small firms need big software. If I were feeling cynical I might ask whether small firms need systems that constrain their business processes, will never have core business parameters altered (because [...]