Red Pepper Software Co, maker of real-time planning and scheduling software for manufacturing companies has announced Version 2.0 of its Sales ResponseAgent for optimising rapid, real-time product delivery schedules and costs based on supply chain capabilities. It can be integrated into existing Enterprise Planning Resource systems with Red Pepper’s intelligent agent, DataBridge. Sales ResponseAgent uses object-oriented design to evaluate material and capacity constraints in the supply chain network as well as transport options of interplant shipments. Red Pepper, based in Mountain View, California says Sales ResponseAgent is an extension of its first intelligent agent Production ResponseAgent which has been picked up by 3Com Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc. Up under most Unix with Motif, it ships from the end of the first quarter. Prices start at $200,000.
