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“For each of our licensed styles, we must manage two processes in parallel—our own product development, as well as providing designs and samples to our licensees for approvals or revisions,” says Raj Malik, president of BioWorld. “When you apply this process to hundreds of licensees—each with its own design requirements and multiple SKUs—plus our own private-label brands, it’s a very complex business model. “Time is of the essence,” Malik says. “We built our business on being able to quickly turn licensed products from China, usually within 60 days. Our customers have become accustomed to this fast turnaround and now expect it.” Headquartered in Irving, Texas, BioWorld sells products at every level of retailer and to independent customers throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. It offers licensed music products to more than 80 percent of specialty music retailers in the U.S. Bioworld’s license categories also include entertainment, beer/beverage and branded properties, as well as private-label merchandise. Visit www.ngcsoftware.com and www.bioworldmerch.com. control costs and improve margins,” says Steve Fowler, chief operating officer at DEMDACO. “The fast-paced nature of our business dictates that we choose a system that’s quick to implement and easy for DEMDACO and our suppliers to use. Centric was the clear choice to support our rapidly growing business and help us delight our customers by speeding high-quality, well-designed products to market.” Visit www.centricsoftware.com. IBM Locates Its Supply Chain Innovation Center in Beijing IBM has opened in Beijing what it says is the first supply chain innovation center dedicated to helping companies worldwide integrate and transform their global supply chain capabilities. “Helping companies transform and extend their supply chains in a globally integrated economy requires new thinking, new methods and new tools,” says Sanjeev Nagrath, Global Leader, Supply Chain Management, IBM Global Business Services. “China, which is one of the fastest-growing economies and a key link in global supply chains is an ideal place to locate our new innovation center to create solutions for companies in not only emerging markets, but anywhere in the world.” The center will showcase several innovative solutions for companies, including: ClearPoint Says It Can Help You Manage Overall IT GRC Initiatives ClearPoint Metrics says its Security Performance Manager Version 2.0 enables IT and security executives to consistently and reliably measure, monitor and communicate the state, business impact and effectiveness of their overall IT governance, risk and compliance (GRC) initiatives. Security Performance Manager provides a complete, automated and cost-effective view of an organization’s security performance through the use of metrics and scorecards, says James Acquaviva, ClearPoint CEO. “ClearPoint is doing for the CISO what integrated financial reporting and management systems do for the CFO,” says Acquaviva. “Based on the best practices of our customers and industry experts, our solution allows customers to move beyond self assessments and surveys and deliver the hard facts and data that validate the state of their information security initiatives and enables better decision making. For the first time, organizations can confidently evaluate their security investments within the context of the enterprise and proactively align their initiatives that safeguard information assets with their business priorities.” Visit www.clearpointmetrics.com. Gift, Decorations, Tableware Supplier Implements PLM System from Centric Centric Software, which provides product lifecycle management for the apparel and private-label industries, says that DEMDACO, a supplier of gifts, holiday decorations and tableware products sold in stores throughout the United States, has selected Centric as its PLM solution. “Centric allows us to streamline our concept-to-catalog development process, make the wisest use of resources and vendors, improve quality and customer satisfaction, and 22 APRIL 2008 http://www.centricsoftware.com http://www.ngcsoftware.com http://www.bioworldmerch.com http://www.clearpointmetrics.com

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