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April 01, 2013

Supply Chain News: Multi-Channel Fulfillment Wars Continue on, as Walmart Makes a Lot of News

Says It May Use Customers for Delivery, Will Pilot New Locker Program, is Expanding Test for Stores as Fulfillment Points

TOPICS : Consumer goods industry supply chain | e-fulfillment | ecommerce | Logistics costs | Logistics | Retail industry supply chain | Wal-Mart

March 31, 2013

Logistics News: New SuperTruck May Improve Diesel Mileage by More than 50%, Make Big Dent in Logistics Costs

Cummins, Peterbilt, Says Initial Tests Show Mileage Climbs to 9.9 Miles Per Gallon, Freight Efficiency by 61%

TOPICS : Logistics costs | Logistics | Transportation | Trucking

March 27, 2013

Should Supply Chain Design be a Core Competence?

Design is Certainly the Flip Side of Strategy; A More Complex and Dynamic Supply Chain World

TOPICS : Network design/optimization | Supply chain excellence

March 27, 2013

Supply Chain News: For the First Time, Gartner Releases a Magic Quadrant on Global Third Party Logistics Providers

Just Four Providers Make the ''Leadership'' Quadrant - We Tell You Which are In and Which Are Out

TOPICS : Global logistics | Global supply chain | Logistics | Outsourcing/offshoring | Third-party logistics

March 26, 2013

Supply Chain News: Is the Market Taking a Liking to Baxter, the ''New Age'' Industrial Robot from Rethink Robotics?

There May be a Few Dozen Baxters Currently in the Field, Including One at Toy Maker KNex; Understanding How New Applications will be Released

TOPICS : Manufacturing | Material handling automation

March 25, 2013

Logistics News: Understanding Bold New Intelligrated Software Strategy

Four Years after Intelligrated Acquired FKI, It has Recently Acquired Providers of WMS, WCS, Labor Management and Voice Technologies; What Does it Mean?

TOPICS : Distribution | e-fulfillment | Labor Management Systems | Logistics | Material handling automation | Supply Chain Execution (SCE) | Warehouse Mananagement Systems

March 25, 2013

Supply Chain Video News for March 25, 2013

CEO Rick Blasgen on the 50th Anniversary of CSCMP, 2013 Focus Areas, and More; Hours of Service Lawsuit Begins; Now the Rail Carriers are Looking at Natural Gas

TOPICS : VideoNews

March 25, 2013

Supply Chain News: Update: Bi-Partisan Group of Congressmen and Senators Ask FMCSA to Delay HOS Rules

Separate Letters from Legislators to Ray LaHood and Anne Ferro Ask for Same Three-Month Delay from Court Decision FMCSA Already Rejected After Request from ATA

TOPICS : Logistics costs | Logistics | Transportation | Trucking

March 20, 2013

RFID and Auto ID News: Is Imaging Technology Inevitably Going to Dominate Bar Code Scanning Applications?

Laser Still Has a Place, but Move Towards Imagers Across Applications is Very Powerful , as Price Differentials Shrink, and Need for 2D Bar Code Reads and Image Capture Rises

TOPICS : Automatic Data Collection | Data collection/AIDC | Distribution

March 19, 2013

Supply Chain News: Recent Scandals Show Abdicating Sourcing to Tier 1 Suppliers Can Drive Huge Supply Chain Risk

Deadly Apparel Fire, Horse Meat Scandal in Europe Show Dangers; Tesco CEO Calls Out Supply Chain Complexity as Root Cause

TOPICS : Procurement/Supplier Management | Supply chain risk