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Thursday 03 July, 2008
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| The best in supply chain management and logistics news, insight, opinion and education |
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The Supply Chain Perfect Storm |
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 Are we entering a new Perfect Storm of Supply Chain challenges? A combination of rising fuel and commodity costs, plus a host of other woes from rising complexity and regulation to the challenges in competing in developing markets may make this the toughest period ever for supply chain managers.
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 Labor Management System (LMS) Resource Page | | Find information, expert insight, vendors solutions, a video overview, case studies and more on the Supply Chain Digest Letter on Labor Management Systems in Distribution | | Sourcing and Procurement News: Tactics to Combat Spiraling Commodity and Raw Material Inflation | | No Company Can Escape Overall Trends, but Mitigating the Impact Can Improve Profits, Offer Competitive Advantage
| | World Bank Global Logistics Report | | The full pdf of the World Bank on Global Logistics, featuring its Logistics Performance Index that ranks 150 countries by their logistics costs and capabities... | | TMS (Transportation Management Systems) Resource Page | | Excellent Transportation Management System (TMS) related resources, including our SCDigest Letter on TMS detailing latest trends, technology developments and more, cases tudies, expert insight, on-demand cost calculator and more | | Supply Chain and $200 Oil | | High oil and fuel prices have the potential to wreak havoc on our supply chains... | | Sales and Operations Planning Resource Page | | Find information, expert insight, vendors solutions, a video overview, case studies and more Sales and Operations Planning (S and OP)... | | Warehouse Management System (WMS) Resource Page | | Find information, expert insight, vendors solutions, a video overview, case studies and more Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)... |
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SUPPLY
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| For the Week ending
June 27, 2008 |
 The news on Wall Street went from bad to worse last week as the stock market continued its downward spiral. The Dow fell to a level not seen since September 2006 and our Supply Chain and Logistics stock index was caught up in the vortex.
In the software group, JDA slipped 6.5%, followed by Manhattan (down 6.2%). However, both SAP and i2 managed slight positive growth following the news of a settlement in the patent litigation between the two companies. In the hardware group, both Intermec and Zebra were down (8.7% and 6%, respectively). In the transportation and logistics group, Yellow Roadway gave back all and more of last week’s recovery (down 13.9%), and UPS slid 9.1% on the heels of a poorer than expected earnings report.
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| A newer set of technology tools, generally refered to as Inventory Optimization technology, are helping companies to gain competitive advantage, reduce costs, and increase service levels through significantly enhanced inventory management.
In part 1 of this excellent three-part Videocast series, we describe the basics of inventory optimization and the keys to success, material delivered by two of the industry's most knowledgea ble experts, Joe Shamir of ToolsGroup and Jeff Metersky of Chainalytics. |
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| |  Leading Edge Logistics White Paper
This report from Supply Chain Digest summarized the findings from a survey of nearly 100 shippers and 70 3PLs on the state of 3PL technology enablement, as well as technology adoption in key areas among shippers |  Warehouse Management: Integrating WMS with SAP
Many companies are considering adding best-of-breed Warehouse Management solutions to their SAP ERP environments, but are uncertain as to integration options and issues. This informative white paper from Softeon reviews WMS deployment options within an SAP environment, describes the technical requirements in a straight-forward, jargon-free fashion, and overviews the importance of SAP's certification program for integration external WMS solutions with the ERP and new NetWeaver platform. |  Top Ten Comprehensive Procurement Outsourcing Vendors
The Black Book on Procurement Outsourcing report by Scott Wilson and Doug Brown has been made available in its entirety through special arrangement with SCDigest. Includes rankings of leading Procurement Outsourcing vendors. |  RFID System Announcements in 2007
This report provides a list of most major announcements by companies regarding RFID pilots or system roll-outs in 2007. It includes the company, country, the industry, the scope of the system (pilot or full deployment), and a brief description. Not to be missed for this interested in RFID. |  Reaching the Tipping Point in Parcel Shipping
In this excellent white paper from Supply Chain Digest, part of our Thought Leadership series, we look look at: the important forces that are driving increases in the level of parcel shipping for many companies, how multi-carrier parcel shipping systems have improved their capabilities and scalability over the past three years;
the 10 indicators it may be the time for your company to assess the benefits of multi-carrier shipping system strategies and technology
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SUPPLY CHAIN QUOTE
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 The testimony by GAO, Department of Energy, and Homeland Security officials raised serious questions about the efficacy of 100 percent container screening. At a time when the price of food and transportation is skyrocketing, it is particularly unwise to increase the cost of delivering goods to the United States. The security measures proposed likely won't work and would be of little utility even if they did. |
-James Carafano of the Heritage Foundation, commenting on the growing concerns about the law requiring 100% screening of containers bound for the US by 2012.
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This outstanding series of two Supply Chain Videocasts will give you practical insight that will help improve global and domestic logistics and transportation strategy and execution. 
