What were the key trends, issues and events in supply chain and logistics for the first half of 2007? SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore shares his perspective. Going green got huge, Dell needed a new Supply Chain Chief, Wal Mart RFID controversy, surging agricultural product costs and more.

While it has been around for a decade, the concept of Bucket Brigades and self-organizing logistics systems is not well known. It can deliver savings or 25-50% in order picking though, says Dr. John Bartholdi of Georgia Tech, and just may have applicability elsewhere in the supply chain.

In Part 3 of his Supply Chain Best Practices series, Editor Dan Gilmore shares more feedback from readers on the question of what Supply Chain Best Practices really are, and how or where they add value to a company's supply chain strategies.

This Week, We're Back With Part 2, Including a Summary and the Complete Q&A

CSCMP and Rosalyn Wlson are back with their annual State of Logistics Report. We're back with our review and comment, as a variety of pressures continues to drive logistics costs higher.

SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore has a great one on one interview with Dick Cantwell of Procter & Gamble on a range of RFID and EPC topics. Here are the highlights.

Perhaps no word gets tossed around more in supply chain than optimization. Sorting out optimization from other technical approaches to decision-making, such as heuristics and simulation, isn't easy. We give it a try.

After several weeks on the road, SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore wonders if he can discern any consistent themes from his journeys. He thinks yes, including the relentless, Wall Street-driven pressure to reduce supply chain costs, Lean mania, supply chain organizations being run very thin, and more.

Is the US transportation infrastructure in crisis or not? How much does the answer really matter to shippers? Supply Chain Digest addresses these questions and more, stemming from a forum at Georgia Tech that focused on capacity and infrastructure challenges for the supply chain.

Supply chain transformation happens for all kinds of reasons. In the case of Coats North America, a dramatic change in its customer base due to low cost country sourcing meant its supply chain network was badly misaligned. The company took that opportunity to not only reconfigure its supply chain network, but to transform to strategy, processes and technology to move from push to pull.