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May 02, 2013 - Supply Chain Digest On-Target Newsletter
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Manufacturing: How is US Manufacturing Doing Five Years after the Great Recession? (Part 2)
Supply Chain Trends: Don't Let the Term "Optimization" Become a Buzzword
Distribution and Material Handling: WERC 2013 Day 2 Video Review and Comment
Global Supply Chain and Logistics: More Tragedy in the Apparel Supply Chain, as Hundreds Dead from Factory Collapse in Bangladesh
RFID and Auto ID: Argonne National Laboratory Wins AIMGlobal Active RFID Award
Sourcing and Procurement: Procter & Gamble Late to the Game of Stretching Out Payments to Suppliers, but Ready to Join Party Now
Transportation: Have a Corporate Fuel Account with Pilot Flying J? Might Want to Check the Math
Green Supply Chain: March by Unilever towards Zero Waste to Landfills in Manufacturing Continues On
Research and Insight: CSCO Insights: The Value of Vendor Compliance Optimization
Cartoon Contest
New Cartoon Caption Contest for April 30, 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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May 22, 2013 .
Winner announced in May 23rd 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? (Part 2)
Despite Slow but Steady Growth from the Bottom, Manufacturing Overall, Many Sectors Below 2007 Levels
Related Content: 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
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Don't Let the Term "Optimization" Become a Buzzword
Why You Should Care What Optimization Means, How it Fits in with Analytics, and Is it Real Time?
Related Content: Risk Exposure Index Starting to Gain Traction, Change Supply Chain Thinking, David Simchi-Levi Says
Concepts being Adopted by Companies Across the Globe; Focus is Often on Reducing Time to Recovery



Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: WERC 2013 Day 2 Video Review and Comment
SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore Reporting from the Conference Floor in Dallas
Related Content:WERC 2013 Day 1 Video Review and Comment
SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore from the Conference Floor in Dallas
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: More Tragedy in the Apparel Supply Chain, as Hundreds Dead from Factory Collapse in Bangladesh
''We are Fully Aware of our Responsibility,'' One Retailer Says
Related Content: In the US and Mexico, Cargo Thieves Prefer to Eat and Drink
Incidents in Mexico Decline in Q1, but Probably Due Only to Effort to Reduce Reporting of Bad Conditions, Says FreightWatch; Official Warns Truckers to Stay Off Some Mexican Highways



Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Argonne National Laboratory Wins AIMGlobal Active RFID Award
Innovative Systems Tracks Nuclear Materials, May have Application in Many Other Areas
Related Content: Could Visual Identification Technologies Revolutionize Logistics Operations?
Maybe DC Workers Could Simpl yLook at an Item they are Picking Instead of Scanning It
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Procter & Gamble Late to the Game of Stretching Out Payments to Suppliers, but Ready to Join Party Now
45 Days to Pay Now Passe, as 60 to 100 Is the New Normal
Related Content: Ford Details Approach to Supplier Engagement and Sustainability
''Aligned Business Framework'' Pushes Tier 1 Suppliers to Own Sustainability and Ethical Sourcing Back Through Supply Chain



Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Have a Corporate Fuel Account with Pilot Flying J? Might Want to Check the Math
Carriers and Private Fleets: Might be Time to Lawyer Up
Related Content: 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
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: March by Unilever towards Zero Waste to Landfills in Manufacturing Continues On
ll Factories in the US and Canada Added to Growing List; Company Also Says it has Reduced CO2 Emissions by 1 Million Metric Tons Since 2008
Related Content: 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
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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