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April 10, 2013 - Supply Chain Digest On-Target Newsletter
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Manufacturing: How is US Manufacturing Doing Five Years after the Great Recession?
Supply Chain Trends: What is Really Happening with the Food Safety Modernization Act?
Distribution and Material Handling: Multi-Channel Fulfillment Wars Continue on, as Walmart Makes a Lot of News
Global Supply Chain and Logistics: Rise in China Wages Now Means Labor Costs about 20% Lower in Mexico, New Study Finds
RFID and Auto ID: Could Visual Identification Technologies Revolutionize Logistics Operations?
Sourcing and Procurement: Input and Commodity Costs Mostly Flat in Q1, Lowest Rise Since 2010
Transportation: More than a Century Later, Rail Carriers Once Again in Logistics Sweet Spot
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

Cartoon Contest
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)

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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.

Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: How is US Manufacturing Doing Five Years after the Great Recession?
Despite Slow but Steady Growth from the Bottom, Manufacturing Overall, Many Sectors Below 2007 Levels
Related Content: 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

Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: What is Really Happening with the Food Safety Modernization Act?
Expert Panel Details What Has and Has Not Happened, What Leaders are Already Doing
Related Content: Should Supply Chain Design be a Core Competence?
Design is Certainly the Flip Side of Strategy; A More Complex and Dynamic Supply Chain World



Manufacturing Focus
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
Related Content: Understanding Bold New Intelligrated Software Strategy
Four Years after Intelligrated Acquired FKI, It has Recently Acquired Providers of WMS, WCS, Labor Management and Voice Technologies; What Does it Mean?

Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Rise in China Wages Now Means Labor Costs about 20% Lower in Mexico, New Study Finds
Wages have Stagnated in Mexico for a Decade, While Rising Sharply in China, New Bank of America Study Says, as Country Becomes Increasingly Favored Sourcing Point
Related Content: 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



Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Could Visual Identification Technologies Revolutionize Logistics Operations?
Maybe DC Workers Could Simpl yLook at an Item they are Picking Instead of Scanning It
Related Content: 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

Manufacturing Focus
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
Related Content: Recent Scandals Show Abdicating Sourcing to Tier 1 Suppliers Can Drive Huge Supply Chain Risk
Deadly Apparel Fire, Horse Meat Scandal in Europe Show Dangers; Tesco CEO Calls Out Supply Chain Complexity as Root Cause



Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: More than a Century Later, Rail Carriers Once Again in Logistics Sweet Spot
Rails Investing Billions to Improve Service, Handle More Types of Freight; Share Seems to be Growing, but ATA Says Trucks will Increase Percent of Freight Moved over Next 10 Years
Related Content: 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%

Manufacturing Focus
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
Related Content: Is it Time for Natural Gas-Powered Trains Too?
BNSF to Launch Pilot by the Fall, as Most Other Rail Carriers Also Evaluating the Technology

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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