This week, Information Resources Inc, Chicago, Illinois, will reveal details of a venture with Mitsui & Co Ltd under which it will supply the IRI Logistics Partners resource planning software for the Japanese corporation’s distribution operation. The two have been working on the project for about a year. Logistics Partners is in beta test on HP-UX at Heinz Canada and on AIX at Nabisco. Anything we do in Japan will certainly run on those two platforms at first, said senior vice-president of professional services, Steve Cole. Logistics Partners provides supply chain management, distribution planning, forecast management, continuous replenishment and product deployment planning within a manufacturing or retailing system. The firm is currently working on Solaris and AT&T Corp Unix versions. Early next year, the firm will begin work on a Windows NT version.
