applications founded 1969 as stsc 1 headquarters rockville maryland united states products prepackaged software 2 revenue 176 million usd 2006 3 number of employees 875 2006 4 website www.manugistics.com manugistics group inc. was a company that developed and marketed software applications principally for resource planning and supply chain management with offices in over 30 countries . citation needed the company was a provider of demand supply and transportation planning software with several very large scale customers particularly in the food production industry . jda software acquired the firm in july 2006 . contents 1 history 2 major acquisitions 3 references 4 external links history edit manugistics originated in 1969 in bethesda maryland as scientific time sharing corporation stsc with some of the people who originally implemented apl as a programming language at ibm . 5 until 1980 the company developed and marketed a broad range of computer software and services including international computer time sharing services . in 1980 stsc began developing and marketing a line of operational decision support software while continuing its other product lines . the company changed its name from stsc inc. to manugistics inc. in may 1992 . later it sold the apl compiler business to apl2000 later aplnow . continued financial problems starting in 1998 tough competition from vendors of similar software and the dot com crash brought about the steady deterioration of manugistics . after struggling for 9 years it returned to positive numbers in 2006 and finally was sold off to rival retail demand chain software maker jda software group inc. 6 major acquisitions edit digital freight exchange inc. dfe western data systems of nevada inc. wds spaceworks inc. partminer csd inc. one release llc stg holdings inc. talus solutions inc. tyecin systems inc. promira software inc. synchronology group ltd. avyx inc. marketing systems gmbh references edit jda software group inc. demand chain management software and services for global retailers wholesalers and manufacturers . . jda software . manugistics group inc technology software services & applications from allbusiness.com . allbusiness . manugistics company profile on linkedin . linkedin . manugistics group inc. profile . smartbrief . apl programming language . www.thocp.net . manugistics seeks a suitor cnet news . cnet news . external links edit jda s official website a manugistics services provider retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title manugistics & oldid 742034247 categories supply chain managementdefunct companies based in marylandhidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from june 2015official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 1 october 2016 at 07 56 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view