Supply Chain Top 100 Software Vendors.pdf

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SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT September, 2003
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he supply chain management
(SCM) software market experienced
its first revenue decline ever last year
according to Boston-based AMR
Research. One reason for the 6 per-
cent drop in sales was clearly the
slumping economy that severely
Timpacted the supply-chain intensive
manufacturing sector. AMR Vice
President of Research Larry Lapide
also attributes much of the sales
decline to buyers desperately seeking
immediate returns from their technol-
ogy investments, through lower cost
and easier to implement solutions.
“Cautious users shied away from
big, expensive planning purchases in
favor of incremental improvements
from smaller execution applications,”
says Lapide.
AMR divides the SCM market into
two broad types of applications: (1)
supply chain planning (SCP), which
includes demand planning, forecast-
The supply chain management ing, production scheduling and other
long-term planning; and (2) supply
software market suffered chain execution (SCE), which
includes applications for management
of transportation (TMS), warehousing
a slight dip in 2002, reports (WMS), inventory management and
order management.
AMR Research, while buyers “Planning users have e
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