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September 30, 2016

Supply Chain Graphic of the Week: The Payback Period for Supply Chain Investments

The Plurality of Companies Require Three Year Payback, Straw Poll Finds, as SCDigest Shows Connection of Payback Period to Internal Rate of Return

TOPICS : Supply chain finance | Supply Chain

September 29, 2016

Supply Chain Cartoon Caption Contest Starting Sept. 28, 2016

Show us your Supply Chain Wit!

TOPICS : Cartoons | Supply Chain

September 22, 2016

Supply Chain Cartoon Caption Winners for August 22, 2016 Contest

Ross Corthell of Packaging Corp. of America and Kelly Egger of Rock Island, IL Take Home the Prize!

TOPICS : Cartoons

September 21, 2016

Supply Chain by the Numbers for Week of Sept. 22, 2016

Amazon's Assault on the Apparel Market; Truckload and Intermodal Rates Continue to Fall; XPO Logistics Facing Multiple Union Drives; Telsa Car Hacked on Highway

TOPICS : Supply Chain By the Numbers

September 21, 2016

Supply Chain Graphic of the Week: US Manufacturing Growth is Simply Flat

Almost No Change for Past Year, as Annual Growth has been Less than 1% Since 2012

TOPICS : Economic News | Manufacturing

September 15, 2016

Supply Chain by the Numbers for Week of Sept. 15, 2016

Chinese Factory Goes for Robots to Counter Labor Costs; German Ship Owners Going Bust; Ford is All in for Mexican Production; Interesting Look at US Trade Deficit with China, Mexico

TOPICS : Supply Chain By the Numbers | Supply Chain

September 15, 2016

Supply Chain Graphic of the Week: The Very High Cost of eFulfillment

Profitable In-Store Products Move Turn into Losers when Sold On-Line and Delivered to Homes

TOPICS : e-fulfillment | ecommerce | Logistics costs | Logistics | Parcel shipping/parcel systems | Retail industry supply chain | Transportation

September 13, 2016

Chain Reaction for Sept. 13, 2016: Alvin is Worried about Upcoming CSCMP Panel

Alvin is ready to be on panel of Chief Supply Chain Officers - or Is He?

TOPICS : Chain Reaction

September 08, 2016

Supply Chain by the Numbers for Week of Sept. 8, 2016

Walmart Further Tightens the Screws on Suppliers; Delta Says RFID is Reducing Lost Baggage in a Big Way; Amazon Cuts Cross-Border Delivery Time; Hanjin Fail Causes Global Logistics Chaos

TOPICS : Supply Chain By the Numbers

September 07, 2016

Supply Chain Graphic of the Week: Movement to Cloud-Based Supply Chain Software Expected to Soar

New SCDigest Benchmark Report Finds 36% of Companies Expect Almost All Supply Chain Software to Soon be Cloud-based

TOPICS : Supply chain software | Supply Chain Trends | Supply Chain