Supply Chain Digest On-Target Newsletter

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January 11, 2017 - Supply Chain Digest On-Target Newsletter

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Featured SCDigest Research

Last Chance! 10th Annual

Gartner-SCDigest Supply Chain Study!

One of the Most Popular and Respected Studies in the Industry Each Year

As Always, Survey Respondents Receive Complimentary
Gartner Research - a $300-500 Value

LAST CHANCE SANTA CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

Deadline is 8:00 PM Jan. 12, 2017

Every other week, we'll post a cartoon and ask for witty/humorous captions from our readers. The winning entry will be published the following week. The newest cartoon will be posted on the SCDigest home page every other Monday and in that week's newsletter

Winner announced in Jan.. 13th SCDigest Newsletter
May the funniest man or woman win!
Have an idea for a cartoon? We would love that too, and will give you the credit.

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and send caption

MANUFACTURING

Study from MAPI Finds Manufacturers are Behind in Preparing for Cyber Threats on Shop Floor, Connected Products

Industry 4.0, IoT Adding to Risks, While Gaps between Traditional Corporate IT and Operational Technology Teams Need to Bridged

SUPPLY CHAIN TRENDS AND ISSUES

Timeline of Key Supply Chain News and Events by Month in 2016

Take a Trip Down Supply Chain Memory Lane for the Year that Was in 2016

New Videocast!

Innovation in Shipper-3PL
Relationships Benchmark Study Results

New Research will be Unveiled from SCDigest and
JDA On This Increasingly Important Topic

DISTRIBUTION AND MATERIAL HANDLING FOCUS

WMS in the Cloud will Go Mainstream in 2017

Barriers to Cloud WMS Simply Fading Away, Opening All the Cloud Benefits to WMS Users

GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN

2016 a Year of Tumult in the Ocean Container Sector, but will Changes at Last Drives Rates Higher for Shippers in 2017?

Consolidation and Capacity Reduction in Motion, but Probably Unlikely to Have Big Impact on Rates in 2017, as Concerns about Service through the Alliances Grows

RFID AND AUTO ID FOCUS

UK RFID Deployment Highlights How Technology Far Superior to Bar Coding in Some Applications

UK's Berendsen Tracks Millions of Linens a Day to and from Customers, and Through the Tough Laundry Cycle

SOURCING AND PROCUREMENT FOCUS

Annual Return on Supply Management Assets Again Finds Huge Differences in Procurement Value Creation

Leaders Get 12 Dollars Back for Every One Dollar Spent on Procurement, Laggards Break Even

TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT FOCUS

Amazon Patent Train for Delivery Technologies Rolls On with Still More Recent Awards

Innovations include a Megadrone, Dedicated Freight Movement Network, and Drone Defensive Countermeasures Technology

GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN

Those Raising Questions about Global Warming Hope New Administration will Support Other Viewpoints

Skeptic Hope for Piece of the $2.5 Billion Research Pie, As Colorado Academic Describes Forces Unleashed Against Him for Questioning Increase in Natural Disasters

RESEARCH AND INSIGHT

Last Chance! 10th Annual Gartner-SCDigest Supply Chain Study

As Always, Survey Respondents Receive Complimentary Gartner Research - a $300-500 Value