It is one of the most mature of Supply Chain applications, but Warehouse Management System providers continue to re-invent the category. SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore looks at what’s new in WMS.

From the beach, SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore offers some overall supply chain observations on supply chain flexibility, the CEO study from IBM, the high tech industry supply problems and its link to the future of supply chain, the new WalMart RFID effort and more

Guest columnist David Schneider analyzes what is really behind WalMart's plan to take control over vendor's inbound freight.

Discussion of micro- and macro-flexibility by experts in the supply chain field

As always, we analyze the numbers from the annual Working Capital report for 2010, which looks at 2009 data.

Recap of Supply Chain developments for the first half of 2010

Review of The New Supply Chain Agenda, a new book from three of the supply most well known names in supply chain: Reuben Slone, Paul Dittmann and the late John Mentzer

We highlight key data and insights from the 3rd annual Gartner-SCDigest supply chain study.

As always, we give our take on the annual State of Logistics report, which highlights the Great Freight Recession of 2009.

SCDigest reviewed all announcement related to RFID-based system deployements in 2009 - see Gilmore's comments, and download the spreadsheet summarzing 157 different implementations.