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January 17, 2013 - Supply Chain Digest On-Target Newsletter
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Manufacturing: Despite Optimism Around Manufacturing Rebound, US Still Losing Share to Imports Even in Advanced Manufacturing Industries
Supply Chain Trends : NRF ''Big Show'' Day 2 Video Review and Comment
Distribution and Material Handling: Is a Blended Rate for WMS Consulting Services Good for Customers?
Global Supply Chain and Logistics: G Strike at East and Gulf Coast Ports Averted Again, After Container Royalty Fee Issue Resolved
RFID and Auto ID: Honeywell's Plan to Acquire Intermec Largely Brings Wireless/RF Terminal Market to Duopoly Status
Sourcing and Procurement: Deadly Apparel Factory Fires in Pakistan and Bangladesh Once Again Highlight Offshore Sourcing Risks – and Potential Value of Risk Monitoring Services
Transportation: Poor US Infrastructure has Huge Economic Costs, Engineering Group Says, While Massachusetts is Planning Major Increases in Transportation Taxes
Green Supply Chain: Green Supply Chain Year in Review 2012
Research and Insight: CSCO Insights: The Value of Vendor Compliance Optimization
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Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Despite Optimism Around Manufacturing Rebound, US Still Losing Share to Imports Even in Advanced Manufacturing Industries
Research from US Business and Industry Council Finds Imports in 106 Advanced Sectors Rose 1.33% in 2011, Leading to US Output Loss of $89 Billion
Related Content: Designing a Lean Transformation Program
What Separates Lean Leaders and Laggards?
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: NRF ''Big Show'' Day 2 Video Review and Comment
What were the Key Themes and Cool New Products from the Show Floor in New York City?
Related Content: NRF Big Show Day 1 Video Review and Comment
SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore from the Conference Floor at the Javits Center in New York City
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Logistics News: Is a Blended Rate for WMS Consulting Services Good for Customers?
What Looks Simple from a Rate Perpective May Give Cost Advantage to the Vendor or Consultant
Related Content:Cool New Supply Chain Product of the Month for January, 2013 - WMS Cloud
New ''WMS Cloud'' Solution from Softeon Scales Easily from Basic to the Most Sophisticated DCs, has Powerful and Unique Configuration Tool
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Strike at East and Gulf Coast Ports Averted Again, After Container Royalty Fee Issue Resolved
Details Unclear, but Royalty Payments to Stay, ILA Says; Contract Extended Another 30 Days to Work Out Other Details
Related Content:Here Comes the ''Container Cliff''
Talks at Standstill for East and Gulf Coast Port Workers; Dated Royalty Payment Program Still at Heart of Impasse; Will Obama Intervene?
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Honeywell's Plan to Acquire Intermec Largely Brings Wireless/RF Terminal Market to Duopoly Status
After Spate of Acquisitions, Honeywell and Motorola Solutions the Two Giants Left Standing; What is the Impact on End Users?
Related Content:Co-Inventor of Bar Code Concept Dies
Pioneering Work by Joseph Woodland Directly Connected to Inventory of UPC Code; Lines in the Sand Lead to Big Idea
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Deadly Apparel Factory Fires in Pakistan and Bangladesh Once Again Highlight Offshore Sourcing Risks - and Potential Value of Risk Monitoring Services
Can Procurement Managers Control Risks Associated with Sub-Contracting? Ethical Sourcing - or the Low Price?
Related Content: Global Industrial Giant Siemens Says Procurement Improvements Driving Billions (with a B) to the Bottom Line
Supply Chain Chief Barbara Kux Making Good on her 60-25-20 Plan
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Poor US Infrastructure has Huge Economic Costs, Engineering Group Says, While Massachusetts is Planning Major Increases in Transportation Taxes
But How Much Benefit is Worth How Much Cost? ASCE Says Cost is In Trillions – Is it?
Related Content: Does Alleged FedEx Overbilling Reinforce Need for Parcel Freight Bill Auditing?
Case Important One for the Parcel Industry to Watch, Says Jerry Hempstead; Cannott Believe FedEx Would Risk Reputation Over Nickle and Dime Issues, As Suit Alleges
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Green Supply Chain Year in Review 2012
A Look Back at the Top Green Supply Chain Stories of the Past Year
Related Content: Green Supply Chain News: UN Climate Change Talks in Doha Continue Downward Trend
Just 37 Countries Extend Kyoto Agreement; Is it About C02 Emissions – or the Money?
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: CSCO Insights: The Value of Vendor Compliance Optimization
Analysis of where and how customers of vendor compliance optimization/management solutions find value from the software.
Related Content: Supply Chain Executive Brief: Five Strategies for Reducing Supply Chain Network Inventories
How Companies Think about Growing Network Pressures - and Ways they can Effectively Respond. New Report from CSCO Insights.
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