As Hurricane Floyd swept up the East Coast Sept. 15-18, many wholesalers in the affected states, especially North Carolina and Virginia, are readying their branches to help residents who lost homes and businesses with the cleanup and rebuilding efforts.
The 30th Annual American Supply Association trade show held in San Antonio featured 5% more booths than the previous off-year show in 1997, but wholesalers attending the show were 10% less.
The second American Supply Association's Electronic Commerce Blue Ribbon Summit unveiled some solutions to the list of e-commerce obstacles discussed at the first meeting.
IBM and i2 Technologies have formed a partnership to provide supply-chain customers with powerful integrated solutions as they transform themselves into e-businesses.
PartnerHeroes Consulting Group, which helps manufacturers and distributors develop, implement and manage supply-chain alliances and partnerships, is hosting a seminar on techniques for negotiating software agreements.
A driver at the Pelham, Ala., branch of Ferguson Enterprises, accused of killing three men, pleaded innocent by reason of mental disease at his arraignment.