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June 20, 2011

Leading Safety Expert Casts Further Doubt on Hours-of-Service Research

An internationally recognized safety researcher said the cache of studies submitted in an extraordinary manner by the FMSCA to support its flawed hours-of-service proposal contained many problems and couldn’t be relied on to support the proposed changes.

TOPICS : Web News

June 20, 2011

Workers in N.Y. Target store vote down union effort

Workers at a Target store on Long Island rejected a unionization effort Friday in the first such vote a Target store had faced in decades,

TOPICS : Web News

June 20, 2011

Supply Chain News: WESCO Distribution goes with 100% Wearable RF Terminals to Improve DC Performance

Hands-Free Technology Gives New Boost to Productivity in already High Performing DCs; Roll-Out Almost Plug and Play, WESCO Exec Says

TOPICS : Automatic Data Collection | Case studies | Distribution | Logistics | Order picking

June 15, 2011

Supply Chain News: Is it Possible to Determine the Right amount of Supply Chain ''Redundancy?''

Lurking Concerns Supply Chains have become too Lean; Can Risk Potential be Quantified?

TOPICS : Lean | Supply chain risk

June 15, 2011

Supply Chain Video: Making Smart Decisions about WMS and WCS Integration

In our Latest Edition, Mark Fralick says having Automation Control Intelligence in Two Places Just Does not Make Sense

TOPICS : Distribution | Logistics | Material handling automation | Warehouse Mananagement Systems

June 08, 2011

Indian Plans to Create 100 Million Manufacturing Jobs

India Real Time surveyed economists to see what they see as the biggest measures need to reach that goal.

TOPICS : Web News

June 08, 2011

Supply Chain News: Key Pros and of On-Demand Supply Chain Software

On-Demand is Hot, with Many Potential Benefits, but May not be Right for All Scenarios

TOPICS : On Demand Software | Supply chain software | Vendor selection


June 07, 2011

Oil Falls Below $100 ahead of OPEC Meeting

OPEC is expected to raise production

TOPICS : Web News

June 06, 2011

Supply Chain News: New Study from Boston Consulting Finds China Manufacturing Cost Advantage Over US to Disappear by 2015

China Labor Costs Alone will Rise to 69% of US Costs in Some Regions before Logistics, Duties, Inventory and Other Costs; A US Manufacturing Renaissance?

TOPICS : China | Manufacturing | Outsourcing/offshoring | Supply chain costs