SCDigest On-Target, May 5, 2009

Weekly On-Target Newsletter

May 5, 2009

This Week

	Manufacturing: Understanding Buyer-Vendor Inventory Options
	Global Supply Chain and Logistics: What's Going to Happen to "The China Price?"
	Distribution and Material Handling: Can Manufacturers Successfully Execute Cross-Dock Strategies?
	Transportation: Talent Management Becoming Key to Transportation Success
	Supply Chain Trends: Do You Need to Do More to "Sense" Customer Demand?
	Procurement and Sourcing: Just How Hard Should You Pressure Suppliers for Price Cuts During Downturn?
	RFID and Auto ID: RFID News and Comment for the Week of May 5, 2009

	Supply Chain Trends and Issues Focus
Category Sponsor: CSCMP

Featured Story

Lag Time in Converting POS Data to Inventory and Deployment Planning is Costly, Says Lora Cecere of AMR

Related Content

May be Opportunity for Shippers and Manufacturers to Reduce Costs, but Meat Cleaver Won't Work, Says Tyndall

Distribution and Material Handling Focus

Category Sponsor:
CDC Supply Chain

Featured Story Can Manufacturers Successfully Execute Cross-Dock Strategies? Merge-In-Transit, DC Bypass are Becoming More Common, but True Cross Dock Remains a Challenge Related Content What's the Opportunity for Automating Case Picking in Distribution? New Report and Survey from SCDigest to Analyze Opportunity and Solutions; One Bottler Uses New Technology to Build Store-Ready Pallets, Reduce Picking from Side-Loaded Trucks

SCDIGEST CASE PICKING RESEARCH STUDY
Over the last few years, the materials handling market has seen a great increase in solutions designed to automate the case picking process. We are trying to better understand how companies view the importance of case picking in distribution, and the level of interest companies have in adopting automated case picking technology. The survey is very short - just 10 brief questions, plus a few demographic questions. All valid respondents will receive a copy of the report, expected to be completed in the May/June timeframe.

Transportation Management Focus

Category Sponsor: OceanSchedules.com

Featured Story

Need for New and Broader Skills in the Middle and the Top Key Challenge for Transportation Management, Caplice of MIT Says; from Hard to Soft Skills

Toyota Managers Dealt with Financial Challenges Systematically; the Science of Lean

Quickly Reduce Manufacturing
and Logistics Costs with Dynamic
Safety Stock Optimization

Global Supply Chain and Logistics Focus

UPCOMING VIDEOCAST
May 19, 2009

The Next Generation
Supply Chain: Integrated
Planning & Execution

Part 2: Achieving the Vision

Featured Story

After Years of Upward Pressure, Now a Retreat, as Buyers Gain Upper Hand; How Long will it Last?

Related Content

Facing Double-Digit Drops in Volumes, Ocean Carriers do what they Can to Weather the Storm, Cruising at Half Speed

Sourcing and Procurement Focus

Category Sponsor: SCTV

ON-DEMAND

The Power of Global
Order Management
in the Service Parts
Supply Chain

Featured Story

Procter & Gamble Exec Says Unilateral Demand for Concessions are Bad Business, While BP Looks for "Deflation" in its Supply Chain

Related Content

It's Beyond Individual Skill, New Book Says; HP Broadens Procurement Metrics

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