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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

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: 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

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

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

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: 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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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.