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December 10, 2013

Logistics News: New Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Rules Dramatically Paring Back Number of Freight Brokerage Firms, but Impact on Shippers Likely to be Modest a Best

Registered Brokers Numbers May be Cut in Half, to 10,000 or So, but Currently Active Ones Likely to Stay in Business or Become Agents for Larger Firms

TOPICS : Logistics costs | Logistics | Transportation | Trucking

December 09, 2013

Supply Chain Digest Cartoon Caption Contests Anticipated Amazon Drones, Parodies

We are Taking Victory Lap after Our Cartoons Featured Delivery Drones and Rockets Well Ahead of Current Attention

TOPICS : Fun stuff

December 09, 2013

Supply Chain Video News for Dec. 9, 2013

Amazon Drones On - and the Parodies Start Coming; Important New Supply Chain Research Study; JC Penney has Major Tagging Blunder

TOPICS : VideoNews

December 04, 2013

Supply Chain News: Honda Must Focus on Manufacturing Excellence, not Just Product Excellence, Its President Says

New Honda Factory in Japan Makes Broad Use of Robotics, Shaves 40 Minutes off Assembly Times; A Testing Lab for Factories Worldwide

TOPICS : Auto industry supply chain | Manufacturing

December 02, 2013

Update! Supply Chain News: Amazon Working on New Drone Delivery System, as Skeptics Abound

Bezos Makes Announcement on 60 Minutes; Could be Ready as Early as 2015; We Have the Video; Can Safety Issues Ever be Resolved?

TOPICS : Distribution | e-fulfillment | ecommerce | Parcel shipping/parcel systems | Supply Chain Innovation | Transportation

December 02, 2013

RFID News: Sudden JC Penney Retreat from RFID Led to Rash of Store Thefts

EAS Tags were Dropped in Favor of RFID - but then that Program Also Was Largely Abandoned; a $28+ Million Mistake

TOPICS : Automatic Data Collection | Data collection/AIDC | Retail industry supply chain | RFID

December 02, 2013

Supply Chain News: Highlights from the 18th Annual Third-Party Logistics Study Part 2

Big Data and Logistics; New Talent for the New Normal; Profiting from Global Trade Management

TOPICS : Distribution | Outsourcing/offshoring | Supply Chain studies | Third-party logistics

November 27, 2013

Supply Chain News: The Timeless Procurement Challenge of Supplier Price versus Cost

Need to Understand Cost Drivers at Suppliers, and Manage for Total Supply Chain Costs

TOPICS : Procurement/Supplier Management | Supply chain costs

November 26, 2013

Global Logistics News: Even as Rates Tank Again, European Commission Looking at Whether Container Carriers are Illegally Signaling Prices

Timing and Level of GRI Announcements are Amazingly Similar Across Euro Carriers, Alphaliner Finds

TOPICS : Global logistics | Logistics costs | Logistics | Ocean carriers | Transportation

November 25, 2013

Seventh Annual Supply Chain Digest-Gartner Study to Delve Deeper Into Supply Chain Maturity Levels, Where Cloud Software is Taking Off

Research has Now Become One of the Most Important Studies in the Supply Chain Discipline; As Always, Complimentary Gartner Reports Available to Respondents

TOPICS : Supply Chain studies