More Detail on some of the Cool New Solutions We Found at the Show this Year; Robotics No Longer a Science Project?

Podcast from our Videocast on Optimization 3.0: IBM's Guide to Leveraging the New Wave of Business Analytics. Open to listen, Save to download. For full broadcast, go to www. scdigest.com/supply_chain_videocasts.php

Could RFID have Offered Major Payback to Manufacturers in Terms of Lower Invoice Deductions? Perhaps that is not the Path Retailers Really Wanted to Go

Simchi-Levi of MIT, SCDIgest Editor Gilmore, Michael Burkett from Gartner all Offer Insight on Key Takeaways from the Disaster

Cost Cutting Seems Tactical and Buyers want to be Strategic, one CPO says, but Notes Cost Cutting is Often Strategic; Do Annual Reduction Targets Lead to Sandbagging?

US Manufacturing Continues to Grow in Absolute Terms, but Most See Manufacturing Sector in Decline; Productivity Gains or Offshoring?

Expectations for Truckload Capacity Highest since Mid-2004, which Presaged Rapid Rise in Rates; Linkage between Fuel Prices and Diversion to Rail/Intermodal

SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore and Materials Handling Editor Cliff Holste review interesting new technologies and market developments on Day 2 of the show.

SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore and Materials Handling Editor Cliff Holste from the show floor in Chicago.

David Johnston of JDA Software and Atul Pandey of Infosys Technologies join Dan Gilmore for this fast-paced discussion,