3M Wraps Up HighJump, While Retalix Shops OMI International
Part One: Recent Events
P.J. Jakovljevic - February 16, 2004

Event Summary

The consolidation within the warehouse management systems (WMS) and supply chain execution (SCE) market, which has long been predicted by certain pundits who also explain the various reasons why it has never taken place, seems to have taken another route very recently. Namely, instead of a direct intra-market consolidation, some tormented public SCE/WMS vendors or smaller, but profitable, undercapitalized, and undervalued WMS/SCE vendors have found a shelter under wealthy, more visible parents with complementary products. The example of the first would be the recent acquisition of former EXE Technologies by SSA Global (see SSA GT To EXE-cute (Yet) Another Acquisition)...