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February 23, 2010

Global Logistics News: For Shipping Giant Maersk, Speed Does Not Pay, as World's Fastest Ocean Ships Are Put to Dock

Ships Capable of 30 Knots Lost Market in Face of Rising Bunker Fuel, Focus on Cost over Speed

TOPICS : Global logistics | Ocean carriers | Transportation

February 22, 2010

Breaking Supply Chain News: Leading Supply Chain Software Provider RedPrairie Sold to New Private Equity Owner

Sale Ends IPO Move Started in November; RedPrairie has Prospered even in Economic Downturn

TOPICS : Supply chain software


February 17, 2010

Transportation News of the Week: Refrigerated Rail, YRC, MIT, More

New Refrigerated Rail Service from Northwest to Chicago; YRC Buys More Time - Will Competitors Stop Deep Discounting? New MIT Green Logistics Consortium; TL Spot Market Freight Up 54% in January

TOPICS : Rail carriers/transportation | Trucking

February 16, 2010

Supply Chain News: IDC's Manufacturing Insights Supply Chain Predictions for 2010

Focus on ''Dynamic Optimization'' Tops the List

TOPICS : Supply Chain Trends

February 09, 2010

Supply Chain News: Great Recession of 2009 will Leave Permanent Mark on US Production Capacity

Now Even Chemical Industry going Offshore; Shedding Capacity in Industries that Benefitting from Credit Boom but are now Dealing with the Hangover

TOPICS : Manufacturing | Outsourcing/offshoring | Supply chain strategy

February 09, 2010

Supply Chain News: Another New Take on Supplier Positioning

Original Kraljic Model does not well Consider Buyer's Importance to Supplier, and Strategic Relationship Potential, Says One Procurement Expert

TOPICS : Procurement/Supplier Management

February 09, 2010

Logistics News: Taking a Look Back at Gene Gagnon's Supervising on the Line

20 Years Later, Advice from Labor Management Pioneer Still Ring True

TOPICS : Distribution | Labor Management Systems | Managing effectively

February 08, 2010

Supply Chain News: Top Consumer Goods and Retail Supply Chains for 2009

Annual Cannondale Associates List Again Shows Procter & Gamble and Walmart on Top, while Nestle, Costo, and Kroger Make Major Moves

TOPICS : Consumer goods industry supply chain | Retail industry supply chain | Supply Chain studies

February 03, 2010

RFID News: New Study from EPCGlobal Says Consumer Goods Companies Bullish on RFID - but Questions Remain

Most Respondents Say they Have ''Production'' Systems, but Retail Compliance (What is Left of it) Seen as the Driver

TOPICS : Consumer goods industry supply chain | RFID