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May 05, 2008

Supply Chain News: Pressure from Greenpeace Campaign Causes Unilever to Reverse Position on Palm Oil Supplies

Pressure Groups Increasingly Leverage YouTube to Achieve Goals; Unilever Suppliers of Key Ingredient Must Now Demonstrate they Do Not Contribute to Deforestation

TOPICS : Green supply chain | Manufacturing | Procurement/Supplier Management | Supply chain and the environment

May 01, 2008

Global Supply Chain: Is the World Going Unflat?

Supply Chain Professionals should Remember All Things Go in Cycles; Right Now, Barriers and Nationalism are Returning

TOPICS : Global supply chain

May 01, 2008

Logistics News: Strategies to Combat Ridiculously High Fuel Costs

Forget Shipping Containers Filled to 75 Percent; More and More Freight Being Moved to Rail

TOPICS : Logistics costs | Logistics | Rail carriers/transportation | Transportation

April 30, 2008

Procurement and Sourcing: The Child Labor Dilemma in Low-Cost Country Sourcing

Despite Sourcing Policies and Local Laws, Child Labor is Key Input to Many Globally Sourced Goods; Ethical Problem - or Needed Source of Family Income?

TOPICS : Procurement/Supplier Management

April 30, 2008

Supply Chain News: Key Trends in Sales and Operations Planning

After Getting the Basic Processes Right, Companies are Expanding the Breadth and Depth of S and OP

TOPICS : Demand planning/management | Sales and Operarions Planning (S&OP) | Supply Chain Trends

April 30, 2008

The "Multi-Modal" World

Users are Increasingly Combining Technologies in Order Picking; Voice with RFID Looks Promising for Case Pick

TOPICS : Order picking

April 23, 2008

RFID News: Airbus Plans Transformational RFID Roll-Out Across End-to-End Supply Chain

Three-Phased Program Comes After Successful Pilot in 2006; Finding the "Profits in Motion;" Integration Through Supplier Portal in Phase I

TOPICS : RFID

April 23, 2008

Logistics News: North American Material Handling Show Day 2 Video Review - New Approach to Pick-to-Light, More

What New Products Caught the Eye of SCDigest? Watch Our Day 2 Video Review

TOPICS : Material handling automation | Order picking

April 22, 2008

Logistics News: Getting WMS Deployment Right

While there are Unique Challenges to Warehouse Management System Implementation, Following these Tips Can Help Ensure Success

TOPICS : Benchmarking | Project management | Distribution | Logistics | Warehouse Mananagement Systems