Supply Chain Players To Merge

Supply chain management software providers Accellos and HighJump are planning to merge.  The newly formed entity will operate under the name HighJump and use the Accellos brand name for mid-market supply chain execution technology.

Accellos founder and CEO Michael Cornell will be the CEO of the new firm, “Discussions with our customers have made it clear that omni-channel is a catalyst for rethinking their supply chain and its underlying technology,” noted Cornell in a statement, reports FleetOwner.

The new company is looking to add around 1,100 new customers in 2014 to the new merger base of 11,000 customers in 23 countries.

The new merger seems to indicate a push toward new logistical networks build on omnichannel supply chains.

“As e-tailers establish brick & mortar locations, big-box retailers shrink their existing footprint, and brick & mortar retailers expand their online presence, there will no longer be, for example, one distribution center (DC) for the store and one for exclusively on-line orders,” noted John Larkin, managing director and head of transportation capital markets research reports the source. “The supply chains are merging, and more flexibility will be required.”

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