Click Commerce buys Optum to become supply chain player

Click Commerce Inc., a provider of collaborative extranet solutions, has acquired Optum Inc., a vendor of supply chain execution solutions, for $27.5 million in stock and assumed debt. Part of Optum's debt is due to its recent acquisition of two supply chain execution vendors, WorldChain and V3 Systems.

Optum's solutions track product information generated from a retailer's point of sale to a manufacturing warehouse or distribution center and distribute that data to the decision-makers who need it.