Tackling the International Supply Chain
P.J. Jakovljevic - June 6, 2005

An Example of TradeBeam's GTM Solution Blueprints

Another acquisition took place in early 2004, when TradeBeam, an international global trading solutions provider with over 3,000 customers and users in over 100 countries, acquired SupplySolution. SupplySolution is a Southfield, Michigan-based (US) offers a supply chain execution (SCE) application called i-Supply, which communicates inventory levels and consumption patterns among trading partners. At the time of the acquisition, SupplySolution had in excess of 2,000 paying customers and employed 125 people in offices in the US, Germany, and Australia. TradeBeam acquired SupplySolution to add collaborative inventory management (CIM) capabilities to its GTM product suite...