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Manufacturing: How Much Technology is Needed for Lean Manufacturing?

Global Supply Chain and Logistics: Megaship Era Enters New Period as Maersk Places Order for 10 18,000-TEU Ships

Distribution and Material Handling: The Two Most Important Members of a Warehouse Management System (WMS) Project Team

Transportation: GAO Tells Congress Freight Carriers, especially Trucking, are not Paying True Costs of Moving Goods

Supply Chain Trends: Dell to Detail its New Supply Chain Transformation on Major Broadcast from Supply Chain Digest and the Supply Chain Television Channel

Procurement and Sourcing: A Picture Tells the Sad but True Tale, as Commodity Prices Continue Strong March

RFID and Auto ID: Not Clear What it Is, but Rumors Swirl that Apple is Building Major New RFID/Near Field Communications Innovation for iPhone5

Green Supply Chain: Boston Company Claims Game Changing Breakthrough in Production of Biofuels

Research and Insight: CSCO Insight: Enterprise Software Applications - Measuring the Value


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Manufacturing
Featured Story: How Much Technology is Needed for Lean Manufacturing?

Purists Say Not Much, but that is not t the Case for Many Manufacturers; Growing Complexity Requires more Support

Related Content: How Soon will ''Printed'' Parts Revolutionize Supply Chains - and the World?

Increasingly, seems Matter of When not If; Mass Customization Finally Realized?

supply chain Trends and issues
Featured Story: Dell to Detail its New Supply Chain Transformation on Major Broadcast from Supply Chain Digest and the Supply Chain Television Channel

March 16th Broadcast Features Annette Clayton, Vice President of Global Supply Chain and Operations for Dell

Related Content: Supply Chain Software Market will Really Turn to On-Demand when Large Vendors push On-Demand First

Now Often a Fallback; Transition for the Business and Sales Reps is not Easy



distribution and material
Featured Story: Supply Chain Video: The Two Most Important Members of a Warehouse Management System (WMS) Project Team

In our New Featured Series, Mark Fralick Says the Customer Operational Lead and Vendor Technical Lead are the Real Keys to WMS Implementation Success

Related Content: Distribution Center Space Still Largely a Buyer''s Market in 2011, New Report Says, though Rates Slowly Inching Up from 2009 Nadirs

Rates to Rise on Average just 1.6% over Next Two Years, Grubb & Ellis Report Says; Chart of Current Rates by Market

Global supply chain and logistics
Featured Story: Megaship Era Enters New Period as Maersk Places Order for 10 18,000-TEU Ships

New Triple E Promises Fuel, Emissions and Cost Benefits - if Maersk can Fill Them; Too Big for US Ports

Related Content: As 2014 Suddenly Looms, US Ports on both Coasts Look to the Future with an Uncertain Eye

Panama Canal Expansion is Great Development for Importers and East Coast Ports - if Only They Could Handle the Megaships

RFID
Featured Story: Not Clear What it Is, but Rumors Swirl that Apple is Building Major New RFID/Near Field Communications Innovation for iPhone5

Rumors of Unique Twist for iPhone would Imply more than e-Wallet Capabilities, but Everyone is Guessing from There

Related Content: RFID News Summary for Week of Feb. 16, 2011

Watch your RFID Wallet; Tag Consumption for Apparel Apps Nearing a Billion per Year, ABI Says; Avery Dennison CEO Bullish on RFID Too; GM Plant Tracks Pallets

sourcing and procurement focus
Featured Story: A Picture Tells the Sad but True Tale, as Commodity Prices Continue Strong March

Huge Year over Year Prices Increases Virtually Across the Board; Widespread Warnings on Profits Across Sectors - and Maybe More Global Unrest Over Rising Food Prices

Related Content: When it Comes to Calculating Procurement Savings, Many Roads to the Same Goal

New Data from CAPS Research Shows Wide Variation Among Companies to Measure Sourcing Savings; 4.26% as Percent of Total Spend Saved through Procurement Actions on Average



transportation
Featured Story: GAO Tells Congress Freight Carriers, especially Trucking, are not Paying True Costs of Moving Goods

Government Investments and Especially ''Social Costs'' not being Paid by Carriers and Shippers, Report Says; Here Come Higher Diesel Taxes? A $126 Billion Gap

Related Content: Schneider National Exec Tells FMSCA that New Hours of Service Rules will Drop Productivity 5%, have no Impact on Safety

Osterberg Says Better Idea is to Mandate EOBRs Now, and Focus on Issues with Drivers..... Snoring?

transportation
Featured Story: Boston Company Claims Game Changing Breakthrough in Production of Biofuels

New Direct Approach Eliminates Problems with Sourcing Biomass, Can Produce Diesel Fuel at $30 per Gallon; Can it Really Work?

Related Content: When It Comes to Green Job Creation, the Only Thing that is Clear is that Nothing is Clear

New Report Says Green Job Creation almost Certainly Way Overstated; Counting the New Jobs, not the Ones Lost or Simply Transferred

transportation
Featured Story: CSCO Insight: Enterprise Software Applications - Measuring the Value

''Earned Quantifiable Benefits'' is a Key Concept, says Barry Wildernan, to Finding Value

Related Content: CSCO Insights: The Stages of Value Delivery for Enterprise Software

Barry Wilderman on why achieving real value from ERP and other enterprise software is hard - and a 5-stage model for making it happen.

   
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