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Manufacturing: US Manufacturing - is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

Global Supply Chain and Logistics: Looking Ahead, Drewry Says Large Gap Coming Between Ocean Shipping Demand and Capacity

Distribution and Material Handling: Our Favorite New Products from ProMat 2011

Transportation: Latest ''State of the Freight'' Report Finds Shippers Expect Big Rise in Trucking Costs, Shifting more Freight to Rail and Intermodal

Supply Chain Trends: Thought Leaders on the Supply Chain Risk Management Less from Turmoil in Japan

Procurement and Sourcing: Is the Fact that Reducing Costs Seems always the Top Mission of Procurement a Bad Thing?

RFID and Auto ID: Was Reduction in Invoice Deductions the Magic Bullet for RFID in Consumer Goods to Retail

Green Supply Chain: Sometimes, the Greenest Ideas are Just Common Sense - and Obvious Money Savers

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


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Manufacturing
Featured Story: US Manufacturing - is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

US Manufacturing Continues to Grow in Absolute Terms, but Most See Manufacturing Sector in Decline; Productivity Gains or Offshoring?

Related Content: 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

supply chain Trends and issues
Featured Story: Thought Leaders on the Supply Chain Risk Management Less from Turmoil in Japan

Simchi-Levi of MIT, SCDIgest Editor Gilmore, Michael Burkett from Gartner all Offer Insight on Key Takeaways from the Disaster

Related Content: When the History of the Early 21st Century is Written, Ascent of China Likely to Top the List, with Dramatic Impact on the Global Economy

Relentless Growth is Unprecedented; Pushing Some Developed Economies Back to Commodity Era?



distribution and material
Featured Story: Our Favorite New Products from ProMat 2011

More Detail on some of the Cool New Solutions We Found at the Show this Year; Robotics No Longer a Science Project?

Related Content: ProMat 2011 Day 2 Video Review and Comment

SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore and Materials Handling Editor Cliff Holste review interesting new technologies and market developments on Day 2 of the show.

Global supply chain and logistics
Featured Story: Looking Ahead, Drewry Says Large Gap Coming Between Ocean Shipping Demand and Capacity

2013 will See Balance Definitely Swing to Carriers, with Rates Rising 10%; Will Maersk Strategy Pay Off?

Related Content: 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

RFID
Featured Story: Was Reduction in Invoice Deductions the Magic Bullet for RFID in Consumer Goods to Retail

Could RFID have Offered Major Payback to Manufacturers in Terms of Lower Invoice Deductions? Perhaps that is not the Path Retailers Really Wanted to Go

Related Content: More Thoughts on What Went Wrong with CPG to Retail RFID

Additional Highlights from Our Expert Panel; A Wide Variety of Views - A Boondoggle, or Path to More Value from RFID?

sourcing and procurement focus
Featured Story: Is the Fact that Reducing Costs Seems always the Top Mission of Procurement a Bad Thing?

Cost Cutting Seems Tactical and Buyers want to be Strategic, one CPO says, but Notes Cost Cutting is Often Strategic; Do Annual Reduction Targets Lead to Sandbagging?

Related Content: 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



transportation
Featured Story: Latest ''State of the Freight'' Report Finds Shippers Expect Big Rise in Trucking Costs, Shifting more Freight to Rail and Intermodal

Expectations for Truckload Capacity Highest since Mid-2004, which Presaged Rapid Rise in Rates; Linkage between Fuel Prices and Diversion to Rail/Intermodal

Related Content: 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

transportation
Featured Story: Sometimes, the Greenest Ideas are Just Common Sense - and Obvious Money Savers

SuperValu Grocery Stores Make it Simple: Get more Stuff in Each Bag, Whether Paper or Plastic

Related Content: US House Moves to Restrict EPA from Regulating Greenhouse Gases, but even if Bill is Passed by Senate a Likely Veto Awaits

Bill Aims to Restrict Aggressive EPA GHG Regulation in Face of No Action by Congress

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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