Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Canadian grocer Metro, Inc. cited streamlined operations in its Ontario operations as the main driver of its record-high sales and 22.5 percent jump in profits for its fiscal third quarter ended July 4.

Whole Foods Market was named a finalist in open-source solution provider Red Hat’s Third Annual Innovation Awards, which recognize the outstanding use, innovation and extension of Red Hat and JBoss solutions by Red Hat customers, partners and the open-source community.

Retailers are not only implementing advanced demand-forecasting tools, but are increasingly using retail demand intelligence (RDI) as a foundational retail technology, tightly integrated with planning systems, supply chain applications and customer selling systems, according to a new study by Framingham, Mass.-based IDC Retail Insights.

The ChefTec Road Show, a one-day workshop designed to offer intensive, customized training on ChefTec software, will host sessions in Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago during August.

Ahold USA, operator of the Stop & Shop, Giant, Martin’s, and Peapod banners, is using an online collaboration platform to enhance its communication with its suppliers.

Logile, Inc., an Irving, Texas-based provider of enterprise workforce planning and execution management solutions for the retail industry, yesterday launched its Labor Master Data interface to help retailers leverage their existing labor standards to build and maintain an enterprise-wide, store and sub-department specific labor model.

Foodservice software vendor Culinary Software Services, Inc., today kicked off its ChefTec Road Show -- a series of user workshops designed to offer intensive, detailed and customized training on ChefTec software, which provides back-office functionality, including inventory control, recipe and menu costing, and ordering.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. plans to deploy a store and merchandise planning software system in the United Kingdom and then globally, following a user acceptance and extensive scalability test of the system.