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Manufacturing: Proposed New NLRB Rules Would Streamline Unionization Process, Strongly Opposed by Most Business Groups

Global Supply Chain and Logistics: US FDA Announces Broad Program to Help it Keep Up with Increasingly Impossible Demands for Protections Against Tainted Imports

Distribution and Material Handling: Where Does the Intelligence Belong in Automated Material Handling Systems?

Transportation: Hours of Service Now Down to Battle of the Academics

Supply Chain Trends: Is it Possible to Determine the Right amount of Supply Chain ''Redundancy?''

Procurement and Sourcing: Time for Regional Sourcing Models?

RFID and Auto ID: Ready for Some RFID Tags with your Oatmeal?

Green Supply Chain: In a Pinch, South African Firm Learns How to Cut Distribution Center Electricity Usage in Half

Research and Insight: Supply Chain Executive Brief: Five Strategies for Reducing Supply Chain Network Inventories


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Manufacturing
Featured Story: Proposed New NLRB Rules Would Streamline Unionization Process, Strongly Opposed by Most Business Groups

Faster Time to Election Thought to Give Advantage to Labor

Related Content: New Study from Boston Consulting Finds China Manufacturing Cost Advantage Over US to Disappear by 2015

China Labor Costs Alone will Rise to 69% of US Costs in Some Regions before Logistics, Duties, Inventory and Other Costs; A US Manufacturing Renaissance?

supply chain Trends and issues
Featured Story: Is it Possible to Determine the Right amount of Supply Chain ''Redundancy?''

Lurking Concerns Supply Chains have become too Lean; Can Risk Potential be Quantified?

Related Content: Key Pros and of On-Demand Supply Chain Software

On-Demand is Hot, with Many Potential Benefits, but May not be Right for All Scenarios


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distribution and material
Featured Story: Where Does the Intelligence Belong in Automated Material Handling Systems?

Almost Always Just in the WMS, Fralick Says, not the WCS, but at Least Makes Sure there isn't Some in Both

Related Content: WESCO Distribution goes with 100% Wearable RF Terminals to Improve DC Performance

Hands-Free Technology Gives New Boost to Productivity in already High Performing DCs; Roll-Out Almost Plug and Play, WESCO Exec Says

Global supply chain and logistics
Featured Story: US FDA Announces Broad Program to Help it Keep Up with Increasingly Impossible Demands for Protections Against Tainted Imports

Long Supply Chain Journey of Tuna Can; Agency Announces Four Pillars of New Strategy the Focus Heavily on Collaboration and IT; Says it Cannot Meet the Requirements of 2011 Food Safety Act with Status Quo

Related Content: Will Recruiting and Retaining Top Talent be the Next Concern for Western Companies Operating in China?

New Study Says Chinese Nationals Now Prefer to Work for Chinese Companies, Not Western Multi-Nationals; Cisco Takes Actions to Make Employ Brand Attractive in China



RFID
Featured Story: Ready for Some RFID Tags with your Oatmeal?

New NutriSmart Prototype from London Researcher Would Track Eating Habits and Food Safety - with Digestible Tags Right in the Food; Taking the Internet of Things in Entirely New Directions

Related Content: Use of QR Code is Exploding, but the Fast and Easy Approach May Lead to Problems

Time for More Discipline in Code Creation; Can QR Code Linking to Web Pages Provide Benefits in Supply Chain Apps as Well?

sourcing and procurement focus
Featured Story: Time for Regional Sourcing Models?

Supply Chain Woes from Japan Earthquake were Predictable, Given the Misapplication of Lean; Rational, Regional, Practical Supply Chains

Related Content: Graphically Representing Supply Risk Across Three Dimensions

Reader Responds with Smart Way to Add Velocity Dimension to Familiar 2 X 2 Framework of Likelihood and Impact



transportation
Featured Story: Hours of Service Now Down to Battle of the Academics

FMCSA Releases Several Studies Supportive of HOS Changes, but ATA Research Expert Questions Results

Related Content: Latest State of the Freight Report Sees Big Increase in Transport Budgets, Highest Level of Tight Truckload Capacity in 10 Year History of the Survey

High Fuel Costs Accelerating Shift to Rail, even as Relative Service Declines, Wolfe Trahan Research Finds

transportation
Featured Story: In a Pinch, South African Firm Learns How to Cut Distribution Center Electricity Usage in Half

Pharma Company Adcock Ingram Deploys VRV System to Cool Building for First Time Ever in a DC; Literally a Life or Death Matter

Related Content: Annual BP Review of World Energy Shows Sharp Rise in Energy Use in 2010, Worrisome Trends

Energy Consumption Rose 5.6% in 2010, Well above Economic Growth; Oil Reserves Growing Very Slowly

transportation
Featured Story: Supply Chain Executive Brief: Five Strategies for Reducing Supply Chain Network Inventories

How Companies Think about Growing Network Pressures - and Ways they can Effectively Respond. New Report from CSCO Insights.

Related Content: Insights from the JDA Supply Chain Assessment Tool 2011

CSCO Insights does the analysis on data taken from the JDA Software supply chain self-assessment database to shed light on current levels of supply chain performance.

   
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