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June 19, 2013 - Supply Chain Digest On-Target Newsletter

eBook:
Three Common Global Supply Chain Issues that Affect Your Bottom Line

Manufacturing: Lack of Clarity on Costs, Benefits Hamper Many MES Deployments

Supply Chain Trends: If You are in Supply Chain, You Made a Smart Career Choice

Distribution and Material Handling: SCDigest Introduces New Tool to Calculate the Value of Making Warehouse Management System Modifications

Global Supply Chain and Logistics: What Took So Long for Bangladesh and Pakistani Apparel Supply Chain Issues to Rise to the Surface?

RFID and Auto ID: Local TV News Report Shows Just How Easy it Is to Capture RFID Credit Card Data

Sourcing and Procurement: The Three Traits that Define Procurement Leaders

Transportation: A New Alternative Truck Fuel Enters the Playing Field

Green Supply Chain: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2013

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

Last Chance! Cartoon Caption Contest for May 29, 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 ET
June 19, 2013

Winner announced in June 20th 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: Lack of Clarity on Costs, Benefits Hamper Many MES Deployments

Too Many Companies Buy First, Figure Out Details Later, Gartner Research Finds

Focus on Flexibility will Start to Compete with Cost, Yield, IDC Manufacturing Insights Says; Make-to-Stock Models will Continue to Decline

Featured Story: If You are in Supply Chain, You Made a Smart Career Choice

Demand Continues to Exceed Supply, as Salaries for Graduates Continue to Rise; Is Supply Chain the New MBA?

The New DSX Workflow Platform Supporting the Planning Tools from Demand Solutions Takes Supply Chain Workflow Management and Visual Process Mapping to New Levels

Featured Story: SCDigest Introduces New Tool to Calculate the Value of Making Warehouse Management System Modifications

In Part 2 of a Series on WMS Modification Trends, New Helpful Spreadsheet Tool Allows Users to Assess the ROI from Customizations

Trend is Towards Much Fewer Mods, but They Have Not Disappeared; Stifling Innovation?

Featured Story: What Took So Long for Bangladesh and Pakistani Apparel Supply Chain Issues to Rise to the Surface?

Decades after Criticism of Nike and Its Supposed Sweatshops, and No One Knows What is Happening at Offshore Suppliers? Turning a Blind Eye

Rates have Sunk Again even as Bunker Fuel Stays High; Record Number of TEU to be Scrapped, but the Megaships Keep Coming

Featured Story: Local TV News Report Shows Just How Easy it Is to Capture RFID Credit Card Data

Simply Bring a Reader Near a Credit Card, Grab Holder Name, Card Number, Expiration Date and More; Are Banks Not Being Straight with Consumers?

Now that Voice has gone mainstream, new trends are emerging that are taking the technology and use cases in new directions

Featured Story: The Three Traits that Define Procurement Leaders

Large IBM Study Identifies Key Characteristics of Best Procurement Organizations

Kraft Spinoff will Now Pay Suppliers….In 120 Days? Where will it End? Could be Real Issue when Interest Rates Eventually Rise

Featured Story: A New Alternative Truck Fuel Enters the Playing Field

DME is Little Known, but Volvo Trucks Announces Aggressive Plans, Pilot with Safeway

Rail Carriers are by Far the Most Profitable Overall, While Heartland Express and Old Dominion Achieve Profits Well Above their Competitors in Truckload and LTL, Respectively

Featured Story: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2013

Global Energy Consumption Slowed in 2012, Up Just 1.8%; Oil Sees Lowest Consumption Share Ever, While Coal Grows; the China Factor

Wood Pellet Business is Exploding in Southern US; Environmentalists Question the Practice; Energy Credit Gold Mine for Some Euro Utilities

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.