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Deadline is 8:00 PM Jan. 12, 2017

Every other week, we'll post a cartoon and ask for witty/humorous captions from our readers. The winning entry will be published the following week. The newest cartoon will be posted on the SCDigest home page every other Monday and in that week's newsletter

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MANUFACTURING
Study from MAPI Finds Manufacturers are Behind in Preparing for Cyber Threats on Shop Floor, Connected Products
Industry 4.0, IoT Adding to Risks, While Gaps between Traditional Corporate IT and Operational Technology Teams Need to Bridged
SUPPLY CHAIN TRENDS AND ISSUES
 
Timeline of Key Supply Chain News and Events by Month in 2016
Take a Trip Down Supply Chain Memory Lane for the Year that Was in 2016

New Videocast!

 

Innovation in Shipper-3PL 
Relationships Benchmark Study Results


 

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New Research will be Unveiled from SCDigest and 
JDA On This Increasingly Important Topic

 

 


DISTRIBUTION AND MATERIAL HANDLING FOCUS
WMS in the Cloud will Go Mainstream in 2017
Barriers to Cloud WMS Simply Fading Away, Opening All the Cloud Benefits to WMS Users
GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN
2016 a Year of Tumult in the Ocean Container Sector, but will Changes at Last Drives Rates Higher for Shippers in 2017?
Consolidation and Capacity Reduction in Motion, but Probably Unlikely to Have Big Impact on Rates in 2017, as Concerns about Service through the Alliances Grows
RFID AND AUTO ID FOCUS
UK RFID Deployment Highlights How Technology Far Superior to Bar Coding in Some Applications
UK's Berendsen Tracks Millions of Linens a Day to and from Customers, and Through the Tough Laundry Cycle
SOURCING AND PROCUREMENT FOCUS
Annual Return on Supply Management Assets Again Finds Huge Differences in Procurement Value Creation
Leaders Get 12 Dollars Back for Every One Dollar Spent on Procurement, Laggards Break Even
TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT FOCUS
Amazon Patent Train for Delivery Technologies Rolls On with Still More Recent Awards
Innovations include a Megadrone, Dedicated Freight Movement Network, and Drone Defensive Countermeasures Technology
GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN
Those Raising Questions about Global Warming Hope New Administration will Support Other Viewpoints
Skeptic Hope for Piece of the $2.5 Billion Research Pie, As Colorado Academic Describes Forces Unleashed Against Him for Questioning Increase in Natural Disasters
RESEARCH AND INSIGHT
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Last Chance! 10th Annual Gartner-SCDigest Supply Chain Study
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