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January 24, 2008

Supply Chain Graphic of the Week - ERP versus Best-of-Breed Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)

What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of each WMS Option? Both Sides Claim Lower Total Cost of Ownership

TOPICS : Warehouse Mananagement Systems

January 24, 2008

This Week's Supply Chain Trivia - The First APICS Certification

What Year was the first Certification Offered by the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS)?

TOPICS : Trivia

January 22, 2008

Supply Chain by the Numbers: January 21, 2008

This Week: Slashing Labor Costs at GM; Slow Retail Sales Growth Expected; Fuel Taxes - Inevitable and Profitable; SkySails Expected to Trim Shipping Costs

TOPICS : Supply Chain By the Numbers

January 21, 2008

Logistics News: Industry Veteran Cliff Holste Joins Supply Chain Digest as Material Handling Editor

Will Provide Expert Insight with New Material Handling Blog, other Contributions

TOPICS : Material handling automation

January 17, 2008

Supply Chain Graphic of the Week - Right to Work States

Number of States Stands at 22, as Michigan, Suprisingly, Considers Change

TOPICS : Auto industry supply chain | Manufacturing | Supply chain costs

January 16, 2008

Supply Chain by the Numbers: January 17, 2008

This Week: Cheap Labor has Much to Do with the Price of Products from China; Amazon.com has Booming eCommerce Website Service; Nightmare Continues for Boeing Dreamliner; Gasoline Tax Increase May Pay for Transportation Infrastructure Improvement

TOPICS : Supply Chain By the Numbers

January 10, 2008

Supply Chain Graphic of the Week - Protecting Intellectual Property in China

Understanding the Pyramid of IP Protection can Reduce Risk, Loss of Assets - and Market Position; Strategic, Legal and Operational Dimensions

TOPICS : China | Global sourcing | Global supply chain | Supply chain risk

January 10, 2008

Supply Chain by the Numbers: January 10, 2008

This Week: Diesel Prices take a Big Bite in 2007; Perry Ellis Finds its Ocean Shipping is a bit much; Goodyear Prices Keep on Rolling; How do you say Tide in Chinese?

TOPICS : Supply Chain By the Numbers

January 07, 2008

Retail Supply Chain: Is "Scanner Error" Still an Issue?

Test in Seattle Area Show Errors, but Often to the Benefit of Consumers; Office Depot, other Retailers Fined in 2007

TOPICS : Data collection/AIDC | Retail industry supply chain

December 20, 2007

Supply Chain by the Numbers: December 20, 2007

This Week: Railway to Seventh Heaven; All the Tea in China for Made in the USA; Out with the Old and in with the New at GM; Hell or High Water Trial for Secure Freight Initiative

TOPICS : Supply Chain By the Numbers