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Manufacturing: Across the Globe, Countries Trying to Rev Up Manufacturing Sector and Related Job Growth

Global Supply Chain and Logistics: China Continues to Flex Rare Earth Metals Muscle, as Companies Moving Factories there to Avoid Shortages and Brutal Prices Increases in Global Markets

Distribution and Material Handling: DC Associates Say Wearable Wireless Terminals Offer Big Productivity and Ergonomic Gains

Transportation: The Load Control Center Continues to Evolve

Supply Chain Trends: Gartner Methodology for Rating Top Supply Chain Schools may not be Perfect, but is Much Better than US News and World Report Process, Don Klock of Rutgers Sa

Procurement and Sourcing: ISM 2011 J. Shipman Award Winner Shelley Stewart on Procurement Careers, Lean and Supply Management, and More

RFID and Auto ID: Honeywell Vaults to Major Wireless Terminal Provider for Supply Chain Applications Overnight with Acquisition of LXe Parent Company EMS Technologies

Green Supply Chain: Clean Energy Jobs Continue to Disappoint, New Reports Say

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


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Manufacturing
Featured Story: Across the Globe, Countries Trying to Rev Up Manufacturing Sector and Related Job Growth

Australia, India, Brazil, even China Look at Plans to Empower Domestic Manufacturing; In US, Sen. Feinstein Proposes $20 Bill in Loans to US Manufacturers Facing Subsidized Foreign Competition

Related Content: Gartner Names Top 10 Industrial Supply Chains

Emerson Electric Comes Out on Top, but Industrial Companies Score Fairly Low Overall; Do Industry Dynamics Mean its Supply Chains aren't as Good?

supply chain Trends and issues
Featured Story: Gartner Methodology for Rating Top Supply Chain Schools may not be Perfect, but is Much Better than US News and World Report Process, Don Klock of Rutgers Sa

Gartner Survey of Real Supply Chain Professionals is Key, Klock Argues; Many Difference in the Two Top Tens

Related Content: The Supply Chain Television Channel and CSCMP Launch New Weekly Video Supply Chain News Program

First Broadcast Very Well Received; Continuing theTrack Record of Innovationfrom SCDigest while Adding New Service for CSCMP Members



distribution and material
Featured Story: DC Associates Say Wearable Wireless Terminals Offer Big Productivity and Ergonomic Gains

Associates from WESCO Distribution and OHL on What is Better About Wearables in DC Environments versus Traditional Handhelds

Related Content: Factors to Consider when Choosing Between Manufacturers and Systems Integrators for Conveyor System Projects

Cost Dynamics Change Depending on the Size of the Project; Specific Expertise, Local Presence can be Factors that Favor SIs in Larger Deals

Global supply chain and logistics
Featured Story: China Continues to Flex Rare Earth Metals Muscle, as Companies Moving Factories there to Avoid Shortages and Brutal Prices Increases in Global Markets

Lighting Maker Intematix Would Have Preferred New Factory in California, but Heading to China Instead; Costs up Astronomically in Past Few Years

Related Content: Despite Low Growth Shipping Environment, Big Containerships Keep Coming

Maersk, with 18,000 TEU Mega-Mega Ships on Order, Upgrading Existing S-Class Ships to Hold Even More; Predicted Container Shortage for 2H 2011 not Occurring, Alphaliner Says



RFID
Featured Story: Honeywell Vaults to Major Wireless Terminal Provider for Supply Chain Applications Overnight with Acquisition of LXe Parent Company EMS Technologies

Where did All the Old Wireless Terminal Providers Go? Honeywell Challenge will be Merging Its Go-to-Market Strategies with ''High Touch'' LXE Model

Related Content: Is Item-Level Apparel Tagging Going Strong, Fading, or Just Catching Its Breath? WalMart Expanding Categories to Non-Apparel

Macys Says it will Wait Until More Retailers Agree to Require Tagging; Just a Natural Lull Between Phases of Very Active Program, says one Expert

sourcing and procurement focus
Featured Story: ISM 2011 J. Shipman Award Winner Shelley Stewart on Procurement Careers, Lean and Supply Management, and More

Chief Procurement Officer at Tyco International Says Better Managing Risk will be Key Skill Area in Next Few Years

Related Content: Survey Shows Procurement Organizations getting Some Relief from Deep Cost Cutting Focus to Adding Value

Lots of ''Transformation'' in the Air in Procurement, Surevey also Finds



transportation
Featured Story: The Load Control Center Continues to Evolve

Opportunity Now for Many Shippers to Advance LCCs to Version 2.0, even as Many have Yet to Centralize

Related Content: Sears Builds Powerful Transportation Scorecard, and Shares Experiences on How to Get it Right

Data Organization is as Important as the Data Itself; Every Number Should be Relative to Something, Sears Says

transportation
Featured Story: Clean Energy Jobs Continue to Disappoint, New Reports Say

New York Times Article Stirs the Debate; ''Demand Just Is Not There''; Lack of Cap and Trade to Blame?

Related Content: NASA Researcher Makes News with Claim that Global Warming Impact is far Overstated, but Opponents Question the Source

Far More Heat is Radiating Out of the Atmosphere than Current Models Say, Roy Spencer Says; Countercharges come Fast and Furious

transportation
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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