SCDigest On-Target, November 4, 2009

Weekly On-Target Newsletter

November 4, 2009

This Week

	Manufacturing: This Week's Manufacturing News Round-Up for November 4, 2009
	Global Supply Chain and Logistics: The Opportunities - and Risks - of Moving Production to China
	Distribution and Material Handling: Measuring Inventory Accuracy - No Clear Answer, Experts Say
	Transportation: Great Package Race 2009 Wraps Up - DHL First to Mongolia, While USPS Takes Opp, Alabama
	Supply Chain Trends: Intel Has to Totally Rethink Supply Chain to Get to New Cost Target for Low Price Chip
	Procurement and Sourcing: What are the Keys to Supplier Relationship Management Success?
	RFID and Auto ID: Will Combining Tracking and Theft Protection in One Tag Drive RFID More Aggressively into the Consumer Goods-to-Retail Value Chain?
	Green Supply Chain: New Wind Farm in Texas to be Powered by Chinese-Made Turbines

Featured Sponsor: LeanLogistics

Distribution and Material Handling Focus

Featured Story

Measuring Inventory Accuracy - No Clear Answer, Experts Say

Companies Use Many Different Measures - A Combination is the Right Approach, Experts Say; Financial Versus Operational Accuracy

New ACP Technologies May Require New Ways of Thinking about Distribution Center Management and Processes

Category Sponsor: Seegrid

Supply Chain Trends and Issues Focus

Category Sponsor: J.P. Morgan

Featured Story

Intel Has to Totally Rethink Supply Chain to Get to New Cost Target for Low Price Chip

Supply Chain Cost Reduction of 80%? "Radical Change" is Needed

DAL Tile Keeps Inventory Low and Customer Satisfaction High with Distributed Order Management System

Manufacturing Focus

Featured Story

This Week's Manufacturing News Round-Up for November 4, 2009

Good Manufacturing News Across the Globe; Sealy Finds Lean Success; Toyota's Green Factory, More

Related Content

Weekly Manufacturing News Round-Up

Goodyear Profits from "Advantaged Supply Chain;" Manufacturing Indicators Mixed; Hanesbrands Closing Legendary Factory in North Carolina; High Loonie Hurting Canadian Manufacturers

Category Sponsor: SCTV

UPCOMING VIDEOCAST

Operational Excellence

with Smart Planning

and Scheduling

A Four-Part Series

Part 3: Effective S&OP for Combating Risk and Volatility

November 11, 2009

Transportation Management Focus

Featured Story Great Package Race 2009 Wraps Up - DHL First to Mongolia, While USPS Takes Opp, Alabama Annual Contest from Georgia Tech Challenges Parcel Carriers Related Content CONTECH Construction Products Finds Big Value, Fast Deployment from On-Demand TMS Time to Value, Support for Hybrid Centralized/De-Centralized Model were Key, VP of Logistics Rick Gaynor Says	Category Sponsor: SCTV

RFID and Auto ID Focus

Featured Story

Will Combining Tracking and Theft Protection in One Tag Drive RFID More Aggressively into the Consumer Goods-to-Retail Value Chain?

Metro Group to Pilot Concept with Checkpoint Systems; Could Make Incremental Cost of Item-Level RFID Modest

Related Content

Visualizing RFID Read Fields

The Magic and the Challenge of RFID is that You Can't See it; LED Wand Tied to Tag Reads Solves that Problem

Category Sponsor: SCTV

UPCOMING VIDEOCAST

The ROI for RFID
in Distribution:
It's There

November 5, 2009

Global Supply Chain and Logistics Focus

Category Sponsor: SCTV

Featured Story

The Opportunities - and Risks - of Moving Production to China

Samsung Latest to Announce Plans for LCD Panel Display Plant in China; Forgetting its Own History?

Related Content

Bob Moffat of IBM, Head of Supply Chain and Rising Star, Arrested for Insider Trading

Moffat Gained Fame for Leading 10-Year Charge to Integrate Vast IBM Global Supply Chain, was Potential Future CEO of the Company

UPCOMING VIDEOCAST

Pride, Passion and Profit: The New Framework for Working Together in the Consumer Goods-to-Retail Supply Chain

A Four-Part Series

Part 4: Connecting
Supply Chains

December 8, 2009

Green Supply Chain Focus - from TheGreenSupplyChain.com (an SCDigest Web Site)

Category Sponsor: IBM	Featured Story New Wind Farm in Texas to be Powered by Chinese-Made Turbines Will Green Technologies Really Power Domestic Industries? China Gears up for Green Related Content Understanding the Green House Gas Protocol for Calculating Carbon Emissions Organization Provides Excellent Free Guidelines and Tools, but Hard Work Remains to Calculate Carbon Emissions
Network Design & Planning for End-to-End Supply Chain Optimization

Sourcing and Procurement Focus

Category Sponsor: SCTV	Featured Story What are the Keys to Supplier Relationship Management Success? Many Companies have Embraced SRM, but Not All Achieve Potential Benefits; Six Practices from SRM Leaders Related Content Will Industry Now See "Collaborative Purchasing?" Pepsi and Anheuser-Busch Sign Deal to Purchasing Many MRO Items - and Even Technology and Logistics Services; Can it Work?
UPCOMING VIDEOCAST Order Capture and Fulfillment Best Practices - Setting the Stage for Growth November 12, 2009

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