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Manufacturing: Across the Globe, Countries Trying to Rev Up Manufacturing Sector and Related Job Growth

Global Supply Chain and Logistics: Violent Longshoremen Action in Washington Causes Concern, Shows ILWU Determination not to Let Any other Union in West Coast Ports

Distribution and Material Handling: Cliff Holste on the Keys to Sortation System Success in Distribution

Transportation: The Load Control Center Continues to Evolve

Supply Chain Trends: US Treasury Secretary Touches on a Number of Supply Chain Issues in Live CNBC Interview

Procurement and Sourcing: Institute for Supply Management Announces New Certification Program for Purchasing Managers that Lack a Four-Year Degree

RFID and Auto ID: New Life for the Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) in the End?

Green Supply Chain: All-Electric Trucks Making Progress, but Subsidies Seem a Key Part of the Economics at Present

Research and Insight: CSCO Insights: The Value of Vendor Compliance Optimization


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Manufacturing
Featured Story: Supply Chain News: Across the Globe, Countries Trying to Rev Up Manufacturing Sector and Related Job Growth

Australia, India, Brazil, even China Look at Plans to Empower Domestic Manufacturing; In US, Sen. Feinstein Proposes $20 Bill in Loans to US Manufacturers Facing Subsidized Foreign Competition

Related Content: Supply Chain News: Gartner Names Top 10 Industrial Supply Chains

Emerson Electric Comes Out on Top, but Industrial Companies Score Fairly Low Overall; Do Industry Dynamics Mean its Supply Chains aren't as Good?

supply chain Trends and issues
Featured Story: Supply Chain News: US Treasury Secretary Touches on a Number of Supply Chain Issues in Live CNBC Interview

Speculators not Responsible for High Oil Prices, US must Better Incentivize Companies to Build Goods Here versus Abroad, Trade Deals will Go Through and Set Stage for Others, Geithner Tells Jim Cramer

Related Content: Supply Chain News: New (to some) Class of Software Focused on Managing Short Term Supply and Demand Issues

''Response Management'' Can Help Both Top and Bottom Lines, Enabling More Real-Time Demand-Supply Matching; Like a Football Play Where the Coach can Keep Communicating with Each Player as the Action Unfolds



distribution and material
Featured Story: Logistics News: Cliff Holste on the Keys to Sortation System Success in Distribution

Poor System Performance Almost Always the Result of Problems in the Concepting and Planning Stages, Holste Says

Related Content: Logistics News: DC Associates Say Wearable Wireless Terminals Offer Big Productivity and Ergonomic Gains

Associates from WESCO Distribution and OHL on What is Better About Wearables in DC Environments versus Traditional Handhelds

Global supply chain and logistics
Featured Story: Global Logistics News: Violent Longshoremen Action in Washington Causes Concern, Shows ILWU Determination not to Let Any other Union in West Coast Ports

Months of Tension at New Grain Terminal Explode into Violence Last Week; Are Members of One Union ''Scabs'' if they Replace Another Union Unable to Reach an Agreement?

Related Content: Global Supply Chain News: China Continues to Flex Rare Earth Metals Muscle, as Companies Moving Factories there to Avoid Shortages and Brutal Prices Increases in Global Markets

Lighting Maker Intematix Would Have Preferred New Factory in California, but Heading to China Instead; Costs up Astronomically in Past Few Years



RFID
Featured Story: RFID and AIDC News: New Life for the Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) in the End?

Somewhat Forgotten as RFID in Consumer Goods to Retail Floundered, the Standards for RFID Data Management Seeing a Comeback, Especially Overseas; US Retailers Just Starting to Get Interested

Related Content: RFID and Auto ID News: Honeywell Vaults to Major Wireless Terminal Provider for Supply Chain Applications Overnight with Acquisition of LXe Parent Company EMS Technologies

Where did All the Old Wireless Terminal Providers Go? Honeywell Challenge will be Merging Its Go-to-Market Strategies with ''High Touch'' LXE Model

sourcing and procurement focus
Featured Story: Supply Chain News: Institute for Supply Management Announces New Certification Program for Purchasing Managers that Lack a Four-Year Degree

New Program Offers Opportunity for Credentials for Many Procurement Managers Out There without Full Degrees; What wil it Cost You? We Summarize

Related Content: Supply Chain News: Can Commodity Prices Continue to Soar Amidst Weak Economic News?

Some Predict Prices for Metals, Agricultural Goods Headed for Big Fall, but Others Note China Keeps Buying, Food Demand Outstrips Supply



transportation
Featured Story: Logistics News: The Load Control Center Continues to Evolve

Opportunity Now for Many Shippers to Advance LCCs to Version 2.0, even as Many have Yet to Centralize

Related Content: Logistics News: Sears Builds Powerful Transportation Scorecard, and Shares Experiences on How to Get it Right

Data Organization is as Important as the Data Itself; Every Number Should be Relative to Something, Sears Says

transportation
Featured Story: Green Supply Chain News: All-Electric Trucks Making Progress, but Subsidies Seem a Key Part of the Economics at Present

UPS Order for 100 All-Electrics for California Market Comes after 90-Day Test; 90-Mile Range, Speeds up to 65 Miles Per Hour

Related Content: Green Supply Chain News: Fallout Continues over Greenpeace Report on Toxic Chemicals in Apparel Supply Chain, as Nike, Others, Commit to Detox

Many Well Known Companies Caught with their Sports Shorts Down, as Chinese Textile Suppliers Spew Toxic Stuff Into Waterways

transportation
Featured Story: CSCO Insights: The Value of Vendor Compliance Optimization

Analysis of where and how customers of vendor compliance optimization/management solutions find value from the software.

Related Content: 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.

   
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