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February 15, 2012 - Supply Chain Digest On-Target Newsletter
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Manufacturing: The Price of Success, as Apple Announces it has Rolled Out First Supplier Inspections with the Fair Labor Association
Supply Chain Trends : Supply Chain Guru Predictions for 2012 Full Text Version
Distribution and Material Handling: MODEX 2012 Video Review Individual Clips
Global Supply Chain and Logistics: Under a Microscope, Apple Supply Chain Shows both Progress and Problems with Regard to Working Conditions in Asia - and the Challenges for Western Manufacturing
RFID and Auto ID: Is the Tipping Point Really, Truly Here for Item Level RFID Tracking in Apparel Retail?
Sourcing and Procurement: Is it Time to Make Supplier Risk Management Programs more Real-Time?
Transportation: As Surface Transportation Bill Nears Vote in Full House, a Look How the Sausages are Made, as Rail Interests Whipped Trucking Over Heavier Truck Provision
Green Supply Chain: Green Supply Chain News: Understanding Infrastructure Requirements for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Fork Trucks
Research and Insight: CSCO Insights: The Value of Vendor Compliance Optimization

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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 (usually emailed on Thursdays)

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Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Supply Chain News: The Price of Success, as Apple Announces it has Rolled Out First Supplier Inspections with the Fair Labor Association
Apple Pays the Price of Success; Are you Ready for the Media Knocking on Your Door?
Related Content: Supply Chain News: Groundbreaking Moves by Apple to Audit its Extended Supply Chain for Compliance to its Supplier Code of Conduct
Apple takes its Practices to Next Level, becomes First to Open Supplier Factories to Fair Labor Association

Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Supply Chain Guru Predictions for 2012 Full Text Version
Complete Predictions from Tyndall, Simchi-Levi, Barnes, Regan and Wulfraat
Related Content: Supply Chain News: Dr. Elli Goldratt's ''Unplugged'' Interview with SCDigest Part 2
One of Our Most Popular Articles of All-Time



Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Supply Chain News: MODEX 2012 Video Review Individual Clips
Watch the Full Videos, or Select the Clips that Meet Your Interests
Related Content:MODEX 2012 Day 2 Video Review and Comment
SCDigest was there of course, and Dan Gilmore an Cliff Holste review interesting new technologies from the show floor at the World Congress Center

Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Under a Microscope, Apple Supply Chain Shows both Progress and Problems with Regard to Working Conditions in Asia - and the Challenges for Western Manufacturing
230,000 Workers at Foxconn City; 8700 Industrial Engineers in 15 Days
Related Content:Supply Chain News: Did Major Supply Chain Disruptions from Natural Disasters in 2011 Really Change Approach to Supply Chain Risk Management?
More Talk than Action, by some Accounts, as Most Risk Reduction Strategies Add Cost; Pushing on Suppliers to Take Action - that is a Different Story



Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: RFID and AIDC News: Is the Tipping Point Really, Truly Here for Item Level RFID Tracking in Apparel Retail?
New Report from Accenture and VICS Says Yes; A Simpler Approach to Thinking about ROI
Related Content:RFID and AIDC News: Wincor Nixdorf has New Take on Bar Code Scan Tunnel for Grocery
New 360 Scan Portal Picks Up on Concept Kroger Pioneered in 2011, Makes Some Improvements with Technology that Could Bring Dramatic Change to Retail Checkout

Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Supply Chain News: Is it Time to Make Supplier Risk Management Programs more Real-Time?
International Monetary Fund Builds Database and Analytic Tools to Identify Potential Worrisome Patterns Sooner
Related Content: Supply Chain News: What will Happen to Commodity and Input Prices in 2012?
Morgan Stanley Predicts Price Declines in Almost All Categories, as Global Demand Expected to Slow; For Materials, it All Depends on China



Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Logistics News: As Surface Transportation Bill Nears Vote in Full House, a Look How the Sausages are Made, as Rail Interests Whipped Trucking Over Heavier Truck Provision
Trucking Does Get Longer Trailers for Doubles; Rail Industry Smartly Marshalls Local Sheriffs for Its Cause
Related Content: Logistics News: Legislation to Allow Heavier Trucks Dismissed from Highway Bill, in Blow to Shippers
Coalition for Transportation Productivity Vows to Fight On; Legislators Cite Safety, Infrastructure Damage and Job Concerns

Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Green Supply Chain News: Understanding Infrastructure Requirements for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Fork Trucks
Most Focus has been On the Fuel Cell Trucks Themselves- not the Process for Getting Hydrogen from Refinery to the Facility
Related Content: Green Supply Chain News: Global Warming, Global Cooling - Same Data, Different Conclusions
Temperatures Have not Risen in 15 Years; Is Solar Activity or CO2 the Real Driver of Global Temperatures? Forestalling the Next Ice Age - Thousands of Years from Now

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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