SCDigest On-Target, November 11, 2009

Weekly On-Target Newsletter

November 11, 2009

This Week

	Manufacturing: Did Tuesday's Election Sink Card Check in the Near Term?
	Global Supply Chain and Logistics: US-China Trade Dispute Ratchets up a Notch, as US Imposes Strong Tariff on Steel Oil Pipes
	Distribution and Material Handling: Crown Equipment Corporation Releases Innovative New IC Fork Truck Developed in Partnership with John Deere - Includes EXCLUSIVE Video Review
	Transportation: Great Package Race 2009 Wraps Up - DHL First to Mongolia, While USPS Takes Opp, Alabama
	Supply Chain Trends: Planning "Only as Far in Advance as You Need to"
	Procurement and Sourcing: What are the Keys to Supplier Relationship Management Success?
	RFID and Auto ID: Will Combining Tracking and Theft Protection in One Tag Drive RFID More Aggressively into the Consumer Goods-to-Retail Value Chain?
	Green Supply Chain: Summarizing Cap-and-Trade Versus Carbon Taxes to Deal with CO2

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Supply Chain Trends and Issues Focus

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Featured Story

Supply Chain Planning and Execution will Increasingly Begin to Blur

Companies Use Many Different Measures - A Combination is the Right Approach, Experts Say; Financial Versus Operational Accuracy

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Manufacturing Focus

Featured Story Did Tuesday's Election Sink Card Check in the Near Term? Yes, says Michael Barone, as Labor Leaders Now Push for Laws at the State Level; Test Case in Oregon? Related Content This Week's Manufacturing News Round-Up for November 4, 2009 Good Manufacturing News Across the Globe; Sealy Finds Lean Success; Toyota's Green Factory, More	Category Sponsor: SCTV
	UPCOMING VIDEOCAST Operational Excellence with Smart Planning and Scheduling A Four-Part Series Part 4 - Advanced Topic: Gain Efficiency through a Holistic View Across Production and Inventory Planning December 9, 2009

Transportation Management Focus

Featured Story Great Package Race 2009 Wraps Up - DHL First to Mongolia, While USPS Takes Opp, Alabama Annual Contest from Georgia Tech Challenges Parcel Carriers Related Content CONTECH Construction Products Finds Big Value, Fast Deployment from On-Demand TMS Time to Value, Support for Hybrid Centralized/De-Centralized Model were Key, VP of Logistics Rick Gaynor Says	Category Sponsor: SCTV

RFID and Auto ID Focus

Featured Story

Metro Group to Pilot Concept with Checkpoint Systems; Could Make Incremental Cost of Item-Level RFID Modest

Related Content

The Magic and the Challenge of RFID is that You Can't See it; LED Wand Tied to Tag Reads Solves that Problem

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ON-DEMAND
VIDEOCAST

The ROI for RFID
in Distribution:
It's There

Global Supply Chain and Logistics Focus

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Featured Story

Most Think Strong Protectionism Unlikely, but Cost for Some Importers Going Up; "Skepticism about Trade" Here, US Official Says

Related Content

Samsung Latest to Announce Plans for LCD Panel Display Plant in China; Forgetting its Own History?

UPCOMING VIDEOCAST

Pride, Passion and Profit: The New Framework for Working Together in the Consumer Goods-to-Retail Supply Chain

A Four-Part Series

Part 4: Connecting
Supply Chains

December 8, 2009

Green Supply Chain Focus - from TheGreenSupplyChain.com (an SCDigest Web Site)

Category Sponsor: IBM	Featured Story Summarizing Cap and Trade Versus Carbon Taxes to Deal with CO2 Most Experts Prefer a Carbon Tax, but Politicians Find Cap and Trade the More Expedient Path Related Content New Wind Farm in Texas to be Powered by Chinese-Made Turbines Will Green Technologies Really Power Domestic Industries? China Gears up for Green
Network Design & Planning for End-to-End Supply Chain Optimization

Sourcing and Procurement Focus

Category Sponsor: SCTV	Featured Story What are the Keys to Supplier Relationship Management Success? Many Companies have Embraced SRM, but Not All Achieve Potential Benefits; Six Practices from SRM Leaders Related Content Will Industry Now See "Collaborative Purchasing?" Pepsi and Anheuser-Busch Sign Deal to Purchasing Many MRO Items - and Even Technology and Logistics Services; Can it Work?
UPCOMING VIDEOCAST Order Capture and Fulfillment Best Practices - Setting the Stage for Growth November 12, 2009

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