F. Curtis Barry & Company’s Multichannel Operations & Fulfillment Blog

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National Catalog Advocacy & Strategy Forum
June 26-27, 2008
Washington, D.C.
The American Catalog Mailers Association (ACMA) has been engaged in continuing important discussions on how we can address the current state of affairs in the catalog industry with the USPS, and has been making progress on a number of fronts. These will be covered at […]

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Upcoming solution will bring together multiple data sources to analyze business performance, aid merchandise analysis, analyze productivity in call centers and fulfillment centers
Redwood City, CA, and Richmond, VA; April 2, 2008 –
For 20 years, Taurus Software has been “making data liquid” for over 700 companies world-wide, with over 80 clients being in the […]

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Richmond, VA, & Philadelphia, PA, April 7, 2008 — F. Curtis Barry & Company, a leading consultancy to multichannel businesses, in partnership with Catalog Success, the leading publication serving the catalog/multichannel business, today jointly announced a co-branded two-day interactive workshop, “Evaluating, Selecting and Implementing Direct Commerce Systems.”
“The software marketplace for today’s multichannel direct […]

Press Release sent to us from IFSO
San Francisco, CA, March 4, 2008: Forerunner Systems Inc. announced the general release of IFSO 4.0. IF/SO® - The Inventory Forecaster, provides inventory forecasting and stock optimization solutions to the direct commerce industry, helping catalog and e-commerce companies improve customer fulfillment, reduce backorders and optimize the liquidation […]

As reported to us by Forerunner Systems Inc.
Press Release
Thompson Cigar chooses the IFSO Kit module from Forerunner Systems to manage cigar sampler inventory and improve inventory management
San Francisco, CA, January 8, 2008: Thompson Cigar has announced today that they will be implementing IFSO, the Inventory Forecaster from Forerunner Systems, to help them manage their […]

Indianapolis, IN. (September 12, 2007) - Sigma Micro LLC announced today that Matt Konkle, previously CFO for Sigma Micro, has been appointed President of the company.
Mr. Konkle has served as CFO for Sigma Micro for the past 4 years and takes the helm from Joe Swern who recently stepped down from the position. As President […]

Retail technology provider Datavantage/CommercialWare, a subsidiary of MICROS Systems, Inc., will integrate solutions from e-commerce solutions provider eOne Group into the renamed MICROS Retail later this year.
Datavantage/CommercialWare has just acquired a 51% interest in eOne Group, which will allow MICROS Retail to offer extensive e-commerce applications to its users in addition to the currently available […]

ProfitCenter Software Inc. (PCS) is ramping up, with three new senior executives on board since April this year and plans to hire more employees. The most recent executive hire, announced this week, is John Marrah, who takes the position of president and CEO. Marrah has nine years of experience managing the largest direct systems provider […]

OrderMotion continues its webinar series focused on preparing merchants for the busy holiday retail season and how to significantly grow their business
Boston, Massachusetts—August 16, 2007 — OrderMotion, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand, direct commerce solutions for small-to-medium-sized merchants announced the continuation of its popular “how-to” Webinar series that is helping merchants […]

For U.S.-based multichannel businesses interested in attracting customers from overseas and maintaining the highest possible standards of customer service could do worse than host their Web site in languages other than English. Web site translation company MotionPoint helps clients do just that, offering human translation of Web pages so a business can run alternative-language pages […]