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April 03, 2013 - Supply Chain Digest On-Target Newsletter

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Manufacturing: Is the Market Taking a Liking to Baxter, the ''New Age'' Industrial Robot from Rethink Robotics?

Supply Chain Trends: Should Supply Chain Design be a Core Competence?

Distribution and Material Handling: Multi-Channel Fulfillment Wars Continue on, as Walmart Makes a Lot of News

Global Supply Chain and Logistics: For the First Time, Gartner Releases a Magic Quadrant on Global Third Party Logistics Providers

RFID and Auto ID: Is Imaging Technology Inevitably Going to Dominate Bar Code Scanning Applications?

Sourcing and Procurement: S Input and Commodity Costs Mostly Flat in Q1, Lowest Rise Since 2010

Transportation: New SuperTruck May Improve Diesel Mileage by More than 50%, Make Big Dent in Logistics Costs

Green Supply Chain: The New Key Question - What is the Real Level of ''Carbon Sensitivity?''

Research and Insight: CSCO Insights: The Value of Vendor Compliance Optimization

New Cartoon Caption Contest for April 3, 2013

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)

Deadline is 8:00 pm EST
April 25, 2013.

Winner announced in the April 26th 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.

Featured Story: Is the Market Taking a Liking to Baxter, the ''New Age'' Industrial Robot from Rethink Robotics?

There May be a Few Dozen Baxters Currently in the Field, Including One at Toy Maker KNex; Understanding How New Applications will be Released

KNex Sees Opportunity for Faster Responsiveness, but there are Challenges; Finding Suppliers is Hard

Featured Story: Supply Chain Models Can Go Wrong - A Different Perspective

Michael Schrage’s book, Serious Play, offers us Insight into Thinking about our Supply Chain Models

Design is Certainly the Flip Side of Strategy; A More Complex and Dynamic Supply Chain World

Featured Story: Multi-Channel Fulfillment Wars Continue on, as Walmart Makes a Lot of News

Says It May Use Customers for Delivery, Will Pilot New Locker Program, is Expanding Test for Stores as Fulfillment Points

Four Years after Intelligrated Acquired FKI, It has Recently Acquired Providers of WMS, WCS, Labor Management and Voice Technologies; What Does it Mean?

Featured Story: For the First Time, Gartner Releases a Magic Quadrant on Global Third Party Logistics Providers

Just Four Providers Make the ''Leadership'' Quadrant - We Tell You Which are In and Which Are Out

Ocean Carriers Really Ramp Up the Cancellations this Winter Instead of Adjusting Published Schedules; Goal of Capacity Reduction in Slow Period is the Same, but Impact on Shippers/Importers is Much Different

Featured Story: Is Imaging Technology Inevitably Going to Dominate Bar Code Scanning Applications?

Laser Still Has a Place, but Move Towards Imagers Across Applications is Very Powerful , as Price Differentials Shrink, and Need for 2D Bar Code Reads and Image Capture Rises

While Voice Deployments Keep Getting Easier, Some are More Successful than Others; We Explain Why

Featured Story: Input and Commodity Costs Mostly Flat in Q1, Lowest Rise Since 2010

Demand is Soft and Supplies Plentiful in Most Categories; US Dollar Strength Also Helps

Deadly Apparel Fire, Horse Meat Scandal in Europe Show Dangers; Tesco CEO Calls Out Supply Chain Complexity as Root Cause

Featured Story: New SuperTruck May Improve Diesel Mileage by More than 50%, Make Big Dent in Logistics Costs

Cummins, Peterbilt, Says Initial Tests Show Mileage Climbs to 9.9 Miles Per Gallon, Freight Efficiency by 61%

Separate Letters from Legislators to Ray LaHood and Anne Ferro Ask for Same Three-Month Delay from Court Decision FMCSA Already Rejected After Request from ATA

Featured Story: The New Key Question - What is the Real Level of ''Carbon Sensitivity?''

Recent Halt in Global Warming has Some Researchers Redoing Climate Models, Though IPCC said to be Increasing Upper Limits of Impact to Cataclysmic 6-7 Degrees C

BNSF to Launch Pilot by the Fall, as Most Other Rail Carriers Also Evaluating the Technology

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.

How Companies Think about Growing Network Pressures - and Ways they can Effectively Respond. New Report from CSCO Insights.