Author: Kim S Nash

Unilever’s Supply-Chain Diet

You know Unilever. It sells products that 150 million of us use every day to wash clothes (Wisk, All), wash bodies (Dove, Lever 2000), dine

New Rx for Pharmaceutical Data

Schering-Plough will pay $250 million to the U.S. government this month—the first portion of a $500 million penalty—after federal regulators found the drug giant violated

Voice of Experience: Lisa Hamblet, Staples

Lisa HambletVP, Business-to-Business E-commerceStaplesFramingham, Mass.www.staples.com Manager’s Profile: Prior to joining $10.7 billion Staples in 1990, Hamblet was a financial analyst at computer hardware company Data

Ariba: Struggling Pioneer No. 2

Like Commerce One, Ariba has suffered a few rounds of layoffs in the past year and is losing money. And like Commerce One, Ariba has

Manugistics Group: Late Entrant

Long strong in supply chain management, Manugistics is a newcomer to e-sourcing and e-procurement software. Although Manugistics’ last full year of profitability was 1997, it