New Research on Shelf Connected Supply Chain; Major Acquisition in the Supply Chain Software Industry; More TEU Capacity on the Way in 2013; plus, the Supply Chain Week in Numbers

Former IBM Expert on Supply Chain Network Design and Advanced Analytics Will Write Expert Insight Columns, Participate in Research Projects

Manual Analysis Simply Cannot Compare with Using an Optimization Engine to Identify Best Combination of Carriers and Lanes

Chemicals, Fertilizers and Other Sectors Finding Midwest will be Low Cost Region; A Virtuous Cycle Developing?

Research on Ocean Shipping Variability from MIT; Walmart Tightening the Screws on Suppliers for Sustainability Index Program; Rust Belt Revival? plus, the Supply Chain Week in Numbers

Key Supplier Becomes Extension of Company Engineering Group, Helps Get Products to Market Faster

Domestic and Global Shippers Continue to Move to Slower, Less Expensive Services; Rapid Growth at UPS and FedEx in Services Offered in Partnership with US Post Office

Lots of Complaints, but Little Data to Date; Delays Come at Ports, not Over the Water, Caplice and Kalkanci Says at CSCMP

Chief Supply Chain Officer Insights Finds Companies Saying they are Functionally Effective are Much More Likely to Rate Their Software Capabilities as High

Supply Chain Execution Technology Benchmark Report; More in the E-Commerce Delivery Wars; The US Wins Important Trade Ruling Against China; plus, the Supply Chain Week in Numbers