The year 2014 was the year when two large Dutch software companies lost their independence: Quintiq and Exact. During the fair ICT & amp; Logistics was presented the first electronic consignment. And what else happened in 2014?
The most spectacular news this year came from Den Bosch. One of our national growth pearls, software company Quintiq makes mid-summer the takeover deal by the French Dassault Systemes announced. Dassault, in our country, an unknown name, focuses on software for 3D design and product lifecycle management, and will adjust the Quintiq planning software here obviously good at. The name Quintiq remained after the acquisition to his feet and the company is pushing as usual on the road with advanced planning software for complex planning puzzles.
Another large Dutch player who this year was acquired is ERP vendor Exact Delft. In October it was announced that there was a bid by the British investment Eiger Acquistions. The management of Exact sympathetic to state here, but quite definitely the acquisition is not because the Authority Consumer & amp; Market (ACM) has yet to give approval. Or ownership exchange then serious consequences will have to Exact’s strategy is not to say, striking was the sudden departure this month of Marinus ter Laak, chief executive at the division Exact Business Solutions.
Acquisition Kewill
In the market of transportation management software was Kewill that came up with takeover news. In October, IBM TMS was Sterling acquired, a solution which is mainly used by large international companies such as Heinz.
While Kewill walked the takeover, competitor JDA presented a new business division within logistics service providers will focus. The decision stems from the acquisition of RedPrairie in 2012, whose name in the sale of new software will not be used
Good news for all providers of supply chain software:. The market is growing this year 7.3 percent. According to Gartner, who announced this in May, and supply chain software remains an important link in the league race between companies making investments in the coming years will be maintained. The supplier who most benefit here is the market leader SAP, followed by Oracle and JDA.
Company Wide ERP less popular
An important trend that signals Gartner is that companies invest more in solutions than in comprehensive software suites. Company-wide ERP implementations seem at the moment just not as popular. And certainly not the government! In January, the government announced that the ERP project Speer at the Defence probably 900 million is going to cost twice as much as the 481 million that was allocated for first!
The ERP market is in an exciting phase, said Professor Hans Wortmann at a meeting of Baan users in Epe. The cloud coming sector players (Google, Rabobank) on the market that offer pieces of ERP functionality for specific business applications. ERP vendors come to sit in a “networked” environment where they must ask themselves what their value is still: software make or deliver a service
During the annual fair ERP for manufacturing companies, the Business Software event in Eindhoven, early Henk Smit, CIO at Fokker aloud whether ERP anyway has a right to exist. “Because of the internet of things will soon all interconnected We especially need specific applications we here plug & amp;. Play can join in, and it is only the question of what is left of our current ERP remains.”
Scoop: digital waybill
One of the most striking innovations this year was Trans Monitoring, a project led by logistics IT company Beurtvaartadres with no more data on a mission via a paper bill but are exchanged using a mobile application. The fair ICT & amp; Logistics had in October the first: there was first in the world demonstrated how by holding two mobile together can sign a bill of lading. This month saw the start of the first pilots gone.
Also in synchromodal was news. TNO Research Institute launched in October a platform for companies to share real-time data synchromodale transportation. This can be saved, according to the creators much travel time and waiting times at terminals and distribution.
Linking digital, logistics data and make it available through a platform, it is a new business line where many new companies respond. Dutch companies like Trad Cloud and Incore offer longer supply chain platform services to businesses, and earlier this year a new company was born: Store Link, co-founded by Jeroen van den Berg
The omnichannel revolution
Connectivity above functionality, which was the title of the report of the WMS-day organized Logistiek.nl in April for the nineteenth time. The main trend WMS is the emergence of e-commerce and the integral organization of order flows along online stores and physical stores: omni channel. Eddie Capel, CEO of software company Manhattan Associates, spoke at a meeting in Rotterdam even an omni channel revolution, where physical shops form an integral part of the supply chain and are controlled by software as if it were a sort of mini-warehouses.
Physical stores are mini warehouses, consignment be digital, ERP will collect a (fragmented) and service platforms, and linking supply chain data to each other and to create new services. It was another exciting year. On to 2015.
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